European zoos with largest hoofstock collection

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I'd be really interested to hear which institutions across Europe people feel have the biggest collection of ungulates.
Extra points for places that have reasonable group sizes of a wide range of ungulate species - anything from the even- or odd-toed Orders would be good to know about.

Thanks.
 
I believe it's Berlin Tierpark that has the biggest collection in terms of species.

As for group sizes, I'll leave that one to those with more specialized/encyclopedic knowledge than me.
 
Berlin zoo + Tierpark Berlin combined have unbeatable collection in both Even-toed and Odd-toed Ungulates + few very rear in zoos, like Gerenuk, Bawean deer, Mountain reedbuck and Marco Polo sheep. Prague, Tallinn, Dvur Kralove and Réserve de la Haute-Touche ( bit remote place in France ) are also zoos with interesting Hoofed mammals. Is it any particular Family you are interested in? You can check this website for more information:
ZootierlisteHomepage
 
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Berlin Tierpark has a hard deer collection, Zoo Berlin and Praha have a lot of antelope species, Praha and Augsburg have a lot of mountain goats and sheeps.
In Hungary, Sóstó has the hardest ungulate collection:
One-humped camel, Two-humped camel, Llama, Alpaca, Vicugna, Pygmy hippo, Wild boar, Warthog, Moose, Vietnamese sika, Reindeer, Red deer, Fallow deer, Rotschild's giraffe, Blackbuck, Gemsbok, Addax, Sable, Marsh antelope( Kobus leche kafuensis), Greater kudu, Eland, Situtunga, Bison, Wisent, Yak, Watussi, Barbary sheep, Mouflon
 
Thanks all that's helpful. There aren't any particular families that I'm interested in, more looking for places that people would think of as having a big hoofstock collection generally.

My initial thoughts were Dvur Kralove and Praha, but I'm not familiar with the Berlin sites so that's great thank you.
 
I think the top 2 collections for hoofstock are Haute-touche and Berlin Tierpark, who are just out equal in terms of species held :)
 
I think that Dvur Kralove has more species than Haute Touche, so two biggest collections are Dvur Kralove and Berlin Tierpark.
 
I forgot about Hodenhagen. I think it is third biggest collection of hoofed mammals in Europe. And what about domestic animals breeds? If we count every race as a species (as many zoos do in their annual reports) than Arche in Warder will be one of the best. ;)
 
The numbers according to ZTL are as follows:

Hodenhagen: 36
Dvur Kralove: 45
Berlin Tierpark: 56
Berlin Zoo: 50
Haute-Touche: 43

So I think the 'leaderboard' is:
  1. Berlin Tierpark
  2. Berlin Zoo
  3. Dvur Kralove
  4. Haute-touche
  5. Hodenhagen
 
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