Sunnydale Zoo

The Sunnydale Zoo is a fictional business featured on the WB Network television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Played by actor James Stephens, he 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 Massasi 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.