Los Angeles - April 6, 2009
This spring visitors to the Los Angeles Zoo can explore the habits and habitats of the “Weird and Wonderful” residents with a fascinating and informative mobile audio tour created by Antenna Audio.
Located in historic Griffith Park, “Weird and Wonderful” is the Zoos’ exhibit focusing on fourteen of their most unique residents. The Antenna Audio cell phone tour takes visitors up close and personal with these wonderful animals - providing intriguing facts from how staff cares for the animals, to how the zoo is working to remove them from the endangered species list. Features of the tour include interviews with the Zoo’s experts such as Susie Kasielke, Curator of Birds, Ian Recchio, Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians and Robin Parker, Senior Animal Keeper. The Antenna Audio tour is available via an online download or on your cell phone at the Zoo.
The Ridgestone Foundation sponsored the thirty-minute tour, which is available in English and Spanish. Instructions to experience the tour via cell phone are located in the Zoo Map, provided at the entrance gate, or it can download directly from the from the LA Zoo web site at http://www.lazoo.org/fun/audio/index.html.
About Antenna Audio
Antenna Audio (www.antennaaudio.com) is the world leader in audio, multimedia, and mobile cultural interpretation. Each year, more than 20 million visitors purchase Antenna Audio tours in 12 languages across 20 countries at approximately 450 of the world's most famous, fascinating and frequented locations. Founded in 1984 and a subsidiary of Discovery Communications, Inc. since 2006, Antenna Audio is a global company with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Visit our iTunes store at www.itunes.com/discoveryaudio.
About Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is the world’s number one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 170 countries. Discovery empowers people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity through 100-plus worldwide networks, led by Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Planet Green, Investigation Discovery and HD Theater, as well as leading consumer and educational products and services, and a diversified portfolio of digital media services including HowStuffWorks.com. For more information, please visit www.discoverycommunications.com.
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Antenna Audio
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