I'm still a bit new and had already attempted to look this up on Subeta Lodge but I was about ot move a minion over to my gallery when I noticed a option to send it to the minion zoo. what is that exactly?

It's a half-developed place to put minions where you can apparently have pokemon style battles with them I think? They decided it would take too much work to really flesh out so it hasn't been worked on in awhile.

Thank you very much. it just confused me a bit when I saw it.

It's also a gold accounts only feature, so if you put any minions in there and your GA expires I don't know if you can get them out unless you get a GA again.

Minions are removeable via Ticket in Help, if your GA expires. Occasionally you can put a Minion in and it will not recognize it and you can recover this via Ticket also.