Borås Zoo - Savannah

The large main savannah in Borås Zoo, Sweden. Here you can see african elephants, zebras, african buffalos, eland antelopes blesboks and ostriches.
June 2005

That is certainly a massive enclosure! It's great to see all of the mixed exhibits at this zoo.

It's not often that you see elephants mixed with other species.

The elephant on this picture is a relatively young one and during my visit he spent a lot of time chasing guineafowl around the savannah

Great picture of one of my favourite savannahs. Now you can also see giraffes at the savannah, it's fantastic.

So great to see all these pictures from a zoo that I have only visited twice, when I was young - some 35-40 years ago. This zoo was a forerunner from the beginning as far as enclosure size is concerned. Almost every enclosure shown so far - including the big savannah - were created in the middle on the 1960s. And this was done in a city with about 50 000 inhabitants, not exactly a metropolis.

The good quality exhibits in zoos stand the test of time amazingly well. The Bronx Zoo's "African Plains" set of paddocks were opened in 1941 and still hold up fairly well. The Woodland Park Zoo's "African Savanna" and their two gorilla exhibits are now almost 30 years old and still look terrific. I've seen zoo habitats that are brand new and basically small and worthless...haha.