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The San Diego Zoo has two locations, the San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park which is a typical zoo (plus pandas!) and the Wild Animal Park which is a large, open preserve with animals roaming “free.” The Wild Animal Park used to have a monorail ride call the Wgasa Bush Line (it’s been replaced with a driving tour). The origin of the word Wgasa has been been passed down as a zoo legend which Snopes has confirmed as truth. Tired of trying to come up with an appropriate African sounding name for the monorail, chief designer Chuck Faust scribbled down “WGASA” on the plans. The name, an acronym for “Who Gives a Shit Anyway,” took off amongst the project team and soon spread to the press who were told that it stood for “World’s Greatest Animal Show Anywhere.”