What is the difference between an animal park and a zoo?

Zoo old name referring to zoos with animals kept in cages or small covered enclosures.

Parks are modern zoos with animals in more natural surroundings.or large enclosures.

The earlier concept was to cage in the animals where people could come to see them - this used to be termed as a zoo.

Later animal lovers & NGO's complained that caging animals stifles their normal living & as such large open spaces were made where animals roamed freely. These areas were strongly fenced ( often with electric wiring) to prevent animals from straying out. People would now be taken to such parks in closed vans ( with big windows) so that they could see the animals in their natural surroundings. This is generally named an animal park - basically it boils down to the type of caginf: if animals r in cages it is a zoo, if humans r in a caged vehicle, it is a park.

Animals walk around freely in an animal park, and humans can feed them as well. Animals at a zoo are usually in cages and can't be fed by the public.

The park the roam in a natural enviorment and a Zoo is the small cages.

i think that animal parks have no cages, while zoo'a have

cages

yeah, what's the difference?

None, it is just semantics.