what is the different between europe , US , australia and asia zoo

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zoomania18

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1. what is the display style of each zoo .


personally IMO , i think Asian zoo is more on the animal exhibit ( such as open zoo concept ) which the zoo is without bar and mesh wire. which people can view the animal and take photo without obstruct . because i mean because of the mesh wire and fences. sources from SEAZA

2.IMO many country like US , australia , UK or etc have larger zoo than Asian zoo and more nice expensive looking exhibit than the Asian country . Asian zoo look so old .

3. does the UK , US , europe have open zoo concept

is my saying right , if i am wrong
can you tell me nicely . i dont want to offend anyone tell
 
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I think there is no (clear, strict) difference in exhibit design between the continents. You can find every type of zoo (old fashioned cage style, open zoo, historic zoo, zoopark, zoo and botanical garden) all over the world.
 
And several of the major zoo design firms work in North America, Europe and Asia and the Middle East. So there is a certain sameness everywhere.
 
I've only been to zoos in Scandinavia, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic and Austria, so I have no practical "experience" in this. But my impression is that the only general thing you can say is that the major zoos in Western and Northern Europe, North America and Australia are more modern and convenient for the animals than the others. And even there, there are apparently exceptions - the zoos of Singapore seem very nice, for instance.

Maybe there are more safari parks in Europe? Not sure I've heard about more than 2-3 safari parks in North America and no one in the rest of the world.
 
For example i will use England and Spain,
Spain's Terra Natura has alot of pools for the animals as most of the time its quite hot but in England this being in winter time i am refering to it animals would spend more time inside like Blackpools Gorillas.
 
do you think that the asian zoo can overtake the europe , Australia , Africa and America zoo . Because of the open zoo concept . You can view the animal and taking photo without restrict . Such as iron bar or mesh fence .
 
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I question your assumption that "Asian" zoos are "open zoo concept ".
Asia is a big place (and you don't seem to have Australian zoos or Middle East zoos in your list at all).
Some zoos in Asia are "open concept" and some are almost ancient. There are some nasty zoos. Same can be said for Europe as a continent. And zoos in the UK are very different from German or Dutch zoos and, as we are learning (well some of us are only just discovering) French zoos are yet something else. In North America there are zoos with cages and zoos with not a single cage exhibit.

If you look at zoo design history instead of geopolitics I think you'll get a better understanding of where zoos have been and where they are headed. In every continent (except perhaps Africa and Antarctica - :D ) there are zoos at the forefront and zoos lagging well behind. There are beautiful zoos with mesh and hideous zoos of "open concept."

Funding and climate have as much to do with what can be done as whether the zoo is Asian or somewhere else. You can make comparisons between Singapore Zoo and Rotterdam Zoo: each is terrific and each envies what only the other can do, I suspect! And what Singapore can afford to dream and do, the zoo in Dalian cannot. Both asian

Different countries, perhaps even regions, do seem to have different design preferences... but it is not continent-wide and I am not so sure it is a simple matter of better or worse. Sometimes they are just different ways of doing the same thing well.

Which is not to say that you may not have your personal preference and good reasons for it.

Look through the Galleries here and you'll see the great diversity of zoos.
 
zooplantman


thanks for the detailed answer , i think i get what you mean , you mean

some zoo have their financial ability , well some do not and climate and temperate play as well . is it .
 
zoomania18 said:
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Yes, pretty much.
National standards and cultural tastes play their part in zoo design, but that's what makes zoos different around the world, not better or worse, IMO

You might even say that it is easy for a zoo to be beautiful and open in Singapore but not at all easy in Calgary. So perhaps Calgary is the "better" zoo for accomplishing so much in spite of their situation.

I do feel, though, that some countries are so.. backward... in their zoo design that they really may simply be bad! Usually those countries have been rather poor economically for a long time
 
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