Top 10 European Zoos you want to visit

ShonenJake13

ShonenJake13

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What are 10 zoos within Europe you really want to (re)visit in the coming years?

Mine are:

Leipzig
Zurich
Berlin Zoo
Berlin Tierpark
Praha
Plzen
Walsrode
Copenhagen
Beauval
Dublin
 
Leipzig
Prague
Walsrode
Plzen
Antwerp
Burgers Zoo
Randers
Loro Parque
Lisbon
Vienna

We are hoping to take a trip somewhere between Christmas and New year, current favourite is Lisbon, but it depends on costs.
 
I would like to visit the following
1.Zoo Wroclaw
2.Prague Zoo
3.Krokodile Zoo
4.Copenhagen Zoo
5.Duisberg Zoo
6.Rotterdam
7.Leipzig
8.Zooparc De Beauval
9.Salzburg Zoo
10.Berlin Tierpark
 
migdog said:
Leipzig
Prague
Walsrode
Plzen
Antwerp
Burgers Zoo
Randers
Loro Parque
Lisbon
Vienna

We are hoping to take a trip somewhere between Christmas and New year, current favourite is Lisbon, but it depends on costs.
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Lisbon is probably the most affordable one with the best weather for that time of year, Czechia is also relatively cheap, but can be really cold in winter with some bad luck...
 
In no particular order other than alphabetical:

Berlin Tierpark
Budapest Zoo
Cologne Zoo
Diergaarde Blijdorp
Duisburg Zoo (as long as the river dolphin is there - when it dies, Duisburg won't make it to my top 10, probably not my top 20 either)
Pairi Daiza
Plzen Zoo
Tierpark Hellabrunn
Wroclaw Zoo
ZooParc de Beauval
 
Prague
Plzen
Berlin
Berlin TP
Rotterdam
Arnhem
Pairi Daiza
Doue La Fontaine
Vienna
Wroclaw

No order of preference.
 
These are the ten that I am most looking forward to visiting for which plans exist, albeit loosely:

Arnhem
Rotterdam
Apenheul
Antwerp
Pairi Daiza
Budapest
Vienna
Zlin
Wroclaw
Leipzig

Honorary mentions for zoos that I don't expect to get to any time soon:
Munich
Stuttgart
Nuremburg
Jardin des Plants
Beauval
 
I don't know the name of it, but there is one I saw years ago on TV that's in France. The vulture exhibit is in a quarry and the birds are fully flighted and mostly free range.
 
Brum said:
I think the aviary mentioned might be the South American one with (fully-flighted) Andean condor and king vulture. I may be wrong though, that happens occasionally! ;)
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ah, could be. From the "mostly free range" bit I assumed the arena thing, but that may have just been because that's what I was looking at a few minutes before.
 
elefante said:
I don't know the name of it, but there is one I saw years ago on TV that's in France. The vulture exhibit is in a quarry and the birds are fully flighted and mostly free range.
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That's definitely Bioparc Doue La Fontaine. I visited recently and actually think I enjoyed it more than Beauval. The free-flight bird aviary was amazing, especially at feeding time. The vulture arena is massive. I guess they are clipped but didn't ask. Either that or they know it's a good source of food so why go anywhere else. On top of that the Okapi sanctuary exhibit was fantastic: Okapi, free remaining Owl monkeys, and lots of birds such as painted stokes, goliath herons, vultures, Hammerkops and many others in a jungle-like setting.
 
No particular order, and with revisits marked:

Tierpark Berlin
Zoo Berlin
Antwerp
Arnhem
Pairi Daiza
Walsrode
Vienna
Plzen
Wroclaw
Duisburg (if the river dolphin survives until I have the chance)
Parc des Felins (if it does not)
 
I'll choose 10 I've not been to, but will definitely be going back to both Berlin!
No order

Budapest
Prague
Vienna
Duisburg
Cologne
Beauval
Parc de Felins
Antwerp
Wroclaw
Leipzig
 
1. Berlin Zoo
2. Berlin Tierpark
3. Plzen
4. Duisburg
5. Artis
6. Vienna
7. Leipzig
8. Wuppertal
9. Cologne
10. Frankfurt

There are loads more that I could have put on the list, it was hard to cut it down to 10. Never having been to any mainland European zoo, the possibilities were endless!
 
1) Berlin Tierpark
2) Pairi Diazi
3) Polar Zoo
4) Berlin Zoo
5) Plzen
6) Frankfurt
7) Chester
8) Burger Zoo
9) Gaia Zoo
10) Kristiansand Dyrepark
 
Regarding the vultures at Bioparc Doue La Fontaine, I was under the impression they were not wing clipped as I thought I had heard on the documentary that the trees in the quarry prevented them from having enough space to actually take off. As I mentioned, I saw this years ago so could be mistaken.
 
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