This is one of the great European zoo buildings. It has character, it has a superb collection within its walls - and it works, as evidenced by the fact that swine of various species have lived healthily in there, breeding merrily, for many years. It is wonderful!
This is one of the great European zoo buildings. It has character, it has a superb collection within its walls - and it works, as evidenced by the fact that swine of various species have lived healthily in there, breeding merrily, for many years. It is wonderful!
I must have been in here when I visited Berlin many years ago, but cannot really remember it. The major German Zoos seemed to specialise in these old-style buildings for particular species. It still looks very clean and 'fit for purpose' even today.
@ Fossa Dude. I've been to Berlin Zoo 5 month ago, at this time, they had Red River Hog, Babirusa and White Bearded Peccaris in this house, which was full of pigs many years ago.
@Sun Wukong. Did you know, that Steven Spielberg used the trained T-Rex bull from Berlin Zoo for the Jurassic Park movies ? At this time, Berlin Zoo has kept all species of Dinosaurs, also Spinosaur and T-Rex in Free Contact, even the Bulls, but in the USA, all zoos are keeping dinosaurs in the no contact system.Unfortunately, the T-Rex Bull has eaten one of the actors during the making of the first film, so after this, Berlin is keeping them only in Protected Contact. And guess what, the Zoo plans to rebuild the old, famous Brachiosaurhouse, which was destroyed in the second world war !
No way-that must have been close to the modern Woolly Mammoth Conservation and Breeding Centre zoogiraffe mentioned.
Anyway, I agree with sooty's statement, although the collection today is, as Tarsius correctly pointed out, a pale reflection of what was once kept there (among others, Catagonus wagneri, Sus scrofa cristatus and coreanus, Sus salvanius and Sus verrucosus)
@Sun Wukong. But I have to say, Fossas Dude's Question "Is it part of a museum ?"is correct, anyway, Berlin Zoo Is a Museum, so the old Swinehouse is really part of a museum. Wouldn't you agree ?
