Miami zoo wants to turn into a theme park

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Metrozoo has hatched a mammoth plan to become a different breed of zoo. But it will take more than simple animal attraction. The zoo got unanimous approval from the Miami-Dade County Commission Thursday for an ambitious master plan that would turn the 731-acre compound into a theme park-like hybrid over the next two decades. Estimated cost over the 20-year stretch: $350 million, which will have to be cobbled from public and private funds.