The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens is a 133-acre zoo founded in 1966 in Los Angeles, California. The first zoo, Griffith Park Zoo, opened in 1912 and was located about 3.2 km south of the current zoo site until it was closed in August 1966. Los Angeles Zoo houses one of the largest chimpanzee tribes of any North American zoo, and is also home to the Campo Gorilla Reserve - specially designed partly in response to a number of gorilla escapes (notably Evelyn and Jim) during the 1990s and 2000s.