However, upon visiting the real life zoo, I noticed not only that it was incredibly small, but there seemed to only be a small crowd of people that were visiting, nor did many people realise that a zoo inside Central Park actually existed. Regardless of this, upon visiting the gift store on my way out, I noticed that a large majority of the stuffed animal toys that were available for purchase consisted of both lions and giraffes – two animals that were featured in the film, however are not displayed in the real life zoo itself.Īs well as this, the animated zoo is represented as a popular, large, and well known tourist attraction that makes up a significant part of New York. However, none of these particular animals are actually featured in the real life zoo. The main characters that are featured in the film consist of a lion, a hippopotamus, a giraffe, and a zebra all becoming involved in various crazy antics. However, although there are a number of similarities between the animated depiction of the zoo and the real zoo itself – I couldn’t help but notice one distinct difference. A solid example of this is the clock tower entrance to the zoo that is also displayed in the film – the animated version shows a very similar representation of it, with only a few minor details having been adjusted. Upon visiting the Central Park Zoo, one of the first things that stood out to me was that although the film is an animated depiction of the zoo, there are a vast amount of similarities in terms of the layout of the zoo, the clock tower entrance, and various other sculptures that are positioned around the zoo. Central Park Zoo is a small 6.5-acre zoo which was built in 1894, and showcases animals from tropical, temperate, and polar zones around the world (Madagascar Wiki, 2010). The film starts out at Central Park Zoo, located at 64 th and 5 th Avenue New York, where the animals have spent most of their lives in blissful captivity.

‘ Madagascar’, is a 2005 computer-animated comedy film produced by Dreamworks animation, which tells the story of four Central Park Zoo animals who attempt to escape from the Zoo and when caught, are mistakenly shipped back to Africa, getting shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar.

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