Sunnydale Zoo

The Sunnydale Zoo is a fictional business featured on the WB Network television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It appeared in the sixth episode of season one titled, "The Pack".

History
Doctor Weirick worked as a zookeeper at the Sunnydale Zoo. In 1997, he used ancient African Massai practices to invoke the power of the primals, turning a pack of high school bullies into savage animals by coaxing the essence of the zoo's hyenas into them. This was all part of a plot to draw the power into himself. He found his respective targets when students from Sunnydale High School visited the hyena house during a field trip.

Xander Harris became an unwitting pawn of Weirick's plan, and was pulled into the Pack. Weirick captured Willow Rosenberg and was going to use her as part of a ritual, but Buffy Summers intervened and freed her, as well as releasing Xander from Weirick's influence. In the ensuing struggle, Weirick fell into the hyena pit and was devoured.