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BestZOO is a small zoo in Best, North Brabant, Netherlands. It opened in 1930 as Vleut the Zoo, and was owned and operated by the van Laarhoven family until purchased by Zodiac Zoos in 2007. Zodiac Zoos upgraded many of the old exhibits to more naturalistic settings, but sold them to Jos Nooren in 2010 before all upgrades were completed.
A red panda (Ailurus fulgens fulgens) in the zoo, which coordinates the international breeding program for this species. Diergaarde Blijdorp participates in about 70 breeding programs and studbooks, and coordinates a number of these, including the international breeding program for red pandas, EEPs for Asian elephant, Komodo dragon, red-crowned and Siberian crane, Visayan warty pig and ...
Iron gateway marking establishment of Dublin Zoo on 10 May 1830 Original zoo lodge, built in 1833.. The Royal Zoological Society of Dublin was established at a meeting held at the Rotunda Hospital on 10 May 1830 [6] and the zoo, then called the Zoological Gardens Dublin, was opened to the public on 1 September 1831. [6]
The Fort Worth Zoo is a zoo in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, and is home to 7,000 native and exotic animals.It has been named as a top zoo in the nation by Family Life magazine, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today, as well as one of the top zoos in the South by Southern Living Reader's Choice Awards.
Zoo Basel was ranked as one of the fifteen best zoos in the world by Forbes Traveler in 2008 [6] and in 2009 as the seventh best in Europe by Anthony Sheridan from the Zoological Society of London. [7] The zoo had the first Indian rhinoceros birth in a zoo, [8] as well as the first greater flamingo hatch. [9]
The Berlin Zoological Garden (German: Zoologischer Garten Berlin, pronounced [tsoːoˌloːɡɪʃɐ ˈɡaʁtn̩ bɛʁˈliːn] ⓘ) is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany. Opened in 1844, it covers 35 hectares (86.5 acres) and is located in Berlin's Tiergarten. With about 1,380 different species and over 20,200 animals, the zoo ...
The zoo, opened its doors to the public in May 2000, initially as a bird park, hosting the third-largest bird collection in the world featuring 1100 birds of 300 species, farm animals for the younger visitors and three very impressive walk-in aviaries – miniatures of three continents (Africa, Asia and the Americas) in which visitors can walk and admire the relevant bird fauna and flora.
Anthony Sheridan's zoo rankings recognised Schönbrunn Zoo as the best zoo in Europe in years 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018 and 2021. [5] Zoologist Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck has been the zoo's director since 2019. [6] The Imperial Pavilion is the historic centre of Schönbrunn Zoo.