Heidelberg Zoo

Heidelberg Zoo
Heidelberg Zoo entrance
Date opened	000000001934-11-20-000020 November 1934
Location	Tiergartenstraße 3, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Coordinates	49°24′55″N 8°39′39″E / 49.41528°N 8.66083°E / 49.41528; 8.66083Coordinates: 49°24′55″N 8°39′39″E / 49.41528°N 8.66083°E / 49.41528; 8.66083
Land area	102 ha (1.02 km²)
Number of animals	1443 (2012) ^[1]
Number of species	174 (2012) ^[1]
Annual visitors	610 000
Owner	Tiergarten Heidelberg gGmbH
Website	www.zoo-heidelberg.de

Heidelberg Zoo is a zoo in Germany which was founded in 1933 and opened for the public on 20 November 1934. Since 1998, the zoo director has been Klaus Wünnemann.

History

Memorial stone from the foundation of Kurpfälzischen Tiergartens

The zoo was created as a foundation, initiated by the ornithologist, Otto Fehringer.

Fehringer was supported by Carl Bosch, the German chemist, engineer, and Nobel laureate in chemistry.

During the first years, Heidelberg Zoo was suffering from money shortage, which even worsened after 1940 and World War II.

In March 1945, the zoo was totally destroyed during bombings.

In 1972, a new director was appointed, and a reformation began.

Several new enclosures were added, like a new enclosure for sea lions 1973, Africa enclosure 1977, carnivores 1978, brown bears 1981, bird enclosure 1985, primates 1988, followed by a new tiger enclosure and other buildings.

A new elephant house was opened in 2010, where only young elephant bulls are kept, as part of the EEP breeding programme for Asian elephants.^[2]

Pictures

Küstenpanorama von 1991
Asiatische Goldkatze
Feldhamster-Aufzuchtstelle
Teichlandschaft
Weißgesicht-Seidenäffchen in einem für Besucher zugänglichen Käfig
The Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)

References

Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent German-language wikipedia article. Retrieved on 14 January 2014. Some of the following references are cited by that German-language article:

External links

Official website
Zooschool Heidelberg
Media related to Zoo Heidelberg at Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zoo Heidelberg.

Zoos of Germany

Zoos	Augsburg Zoo Bad Mergentheim Wildlife Park Berlin Tierpark Berlin Zoological Garden Betzenberg Wildlife Park Bremerhaven Zoo Cologne Zoo Cottbus Zoo Dortmund Zoo Dresden Zoo Duisburg Zoo Eekholt Wildlife Park Erlebnispark Tripsdrill Essehof Zoo Frankfurt Zoo Hamburg Hagenbeck Zoo Hanover Zoo Heidelberg Zoo Hellabrunn Zoo Hirschfeld Wildlife Park Hodenhagen Serengeti Park Karlsruhe Zoo Krefeld Zoo Landau Zoo Leipzig Zoo Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park Magdeburg Zoo Münster Zoo Nuremberg Zoo Olching Bird Park Opel Zoo Osnabrück Zoo Rostock Zoo Saarbrücken Zoo Sassnitz Wildlife Park Südliche Weinstraße Wildlife Park Stuttgart Wilhelma Zoo Walsrode Bird Park Wuppertal Zoo ZOOM Erlebniswelt Gelsenkirchen

Aquariums	AquaDom Aquarium Berlin German Maritime Museum Ozeaneum Sea Life Centres Germany

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