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 | | Currently being remodeled, the 139-hectare (343-acre) Miguel Alvarez del Toro Zoo features animals endemic to Chiapas, including boar, mountain deer, badger, pheasant, tapir, fl jaguar, and pavon (a large turkey used as the symbol of the zoo, it is endemic to Chiapas and in danger of extinction). |
 | | Miguel Alvarez del Toro was a world-famous zoologist, author of Los animales silvestres de Chiapas (1952), Los aves de Chiapas (1971), and Los mamiferos de Chiapas (1977). |
 | | Alvarez del Toro was a strong proponent of conserving the mangroves in Chiapas, breeding grounds for 96 percent of the fish captured along Mexico's coasts, and the El Triunfo cloud forest, which later became a biosphere reserve. |
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