Major cities WITHOUT zoos
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dragon(ele)nerd
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Contary to that if I'm not mistaken Germany has many zoos close to each other,
for most of them have elephants,
for most of them have elephants,
Brussels used to have a zoo in the Leopoldspark but it was there just in the 19th century.
The the Hague zoo got closed during or just after WWII. Parts of it moved to Wassenaar Zoo which closed in 1985 and turned into Wassenaar Wildlife Breeding Centre which used to be famous for it's successes in breeding cheetah's. But if I m correct this facility closed down last year.
The the Hague zoo got closed during or just after WWII. Parts of it moved to Wassenaar Zoo which closed in 1985 and turned into Wassenaar Wildlife Breeding Centre which used to be famous for it's successes in breeding cheetah's. But if I m correct this facility closed down last year.
Same for The Hague and Brussels, both are neither young or without culture, but no zoos anyways.
I think there can be a lot of reasons for not being a zoo (very dense populated, financial problems in the past etc etc), but both young and uncultured arent really criteria. A lot of American cities are young (to European and Asian standards) and so are the Australian zoos and a lot of them have zoos
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And quite some cities with no big cultural past have zoos, b.e. Amersfoort, Emmen and Mechelen.
So what does define it, maybe a bit of luck and people in the past willing to put money into it
I think there can be a lot of reasons for not being a zoo (very dense populated, financial problems in the past etc etc), but both young and uncultured arent really criteria. A lot of American cities are young (to European and Asian standards) and so are the Australian zoos and a lot of them have zoos
. And quite some cities with no big cultural past have zoos, b.e. Amersfoort, Emmen and Mechelen.
So what does define it, maybe a bit of luck and people in the past willing to put money into it
There is clearly no definitive reason why or why not a zoo appears in a city, and as has previously been pointed out there are many large cities with a massive populace and yet lack a zoo. In the U.S. every single major city with a million people or more has a major zoo, and yet cities like Milan and Glasgow no longer have zoos.
One thing for sure is that there is definitely more of a "zoo culture" in specific European nations, as for example the Netherlands has 15 EAZA zoos and half of them have an attendance of more than a million visitors per year. Germany has some crazy number of around 250 zoos, and for a Canadian like me I perceive that country as being puny in size. Canada is the world's second largest nation, and could accommadate countless Netherlands and Germanys inside of it...and yet has only 2 major zoos and many small wildlife parks. There simply isn't a "zoo culture" in Canada, and the climate doesn't make things any easier.
One thing for sure is that there is definitely more of a "zoo culture" in specific European nations, as for example the Netherlands has 15 EAZA zoos and half of them have an attendance of more than a million visitors per year. Germany has some crazy number of around 250 zoos, and for a Canadian like me I perceive that country as being puny in size. Canada is the world's second largest nation, and could accommadate countless Netherlands and Germanys inside of it...and yet has only 2 major zoos and many small wildlife parks. There simply isn't a "zoo culture" in Canada, and the climate doesn't make things any easier.
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Liverpool used to have a zoo, it even had quaggas. I thought it had had a Sumatran rhino with even a birth from a pregant wild-caught female, I am sure I read this somewhere but cannot find the reference. Sumatran rhinos definitely passed through Liverpool via a dealer:
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Well, we can say Oporto has a zoo, it's not a really big zoo, but there's a place called Quinta de Santo Inácio in Avintes...
The zoo of The Hague closed down just after the war. About Brussels, I have been looking on the web but can't find anything fast. I remember that it had a similar history as The Hague (closed down very early on because of "mismanagement").
Utrecht never had a zoo.
drzoomi
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Ramat gan Safari is owned (half of it) by the city of Tel aviv...so yes...it s....
Dan
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Dan@ I saw that you wrote that Stockholm does not have a Zoo. In Stockholm, is Sweden National Zoo, called Skansen. Here you found also Skansen Aquarium and Aqua Water museum.
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Yes, well... I guess it depends on how you define the word "zoo". I don´t really see Skansen as a zoo, more like a "national theme park" (for lack of better expression). You know... lots of old houses from all parts of Sweden, small museums and exhibitions and, yes... a few animal enclosures as well, showing native species. Nowadays also an aquarium, that I have never seen but is supposed to be pretty good, I believe.
For a Zoo, Skansen has not that much to offer. It's a great park, and i really enjoyed my visit but that was more due to the old houses and atmosphere then "zoo-wise". That being said, the Skansen Aquarium that's inside the park isn't very large, but does hold quite a few zoologically rare species.
