Leipzig Zoological Garden

Leipzig Zoological Garden
Inside Gondwanaland
Date opened	June 9, 1878
Location	Leipzig, Germany
Coordinates	51°20′56″N 12°22′08″E / 51.349°N 12.369°E / 51.349; 12.369Coordinates: 51°20′56″N 12°22′08″E / 51.349°N 12.369°E / 51.349; 12.369
Number of species	~850
Memberships	EAZA,^[1] WAZA^[2]
Website	www.zoo-leipzig.de/en/nc/homepage

The Leipzig Zoological Garden, or the Leipzig Zoo, was opened in Leipzig, Germany on June 9, 1878. It was taken over by the city of Leipzig in 1920 after World War I and now covers about 225,000 square metres (56 acres) and contains approximately 850 different species. The zoo is internationally noted for its spectacular building projects^[3] and its large carnivore exhibit. It has bred more than 2,000 lions, 250 rare Siberian tigers, and other carnivores like bears.^[4]^[5] Leipzig Zoological Garden is known as the "Zoo of the future".^[6]

Notes

↑ "EAZA Member Zoos & Aquariums". eaza.net. EAZA. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
↑ "Zoos and Aquariums of the World". waza.org. WAZA. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
↑ http://www.marcopolo.de/reise-news/deutschland-eroeffnung-der-tropenerlebniswelt-gondwanaland-im-zoo-leipzig
↑ Leipzig Zoological Garden. (2005). Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved December 8, 2005, from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9047693
↑ Leipzig: Der Zoologische Garten - Zoo Leipzig
↑ http://www.merian.de/magazin/leipzig-zoo-der-zukunft.html

External links

Media related to Leipzig Zoo at Wikimedia Commons
Official website

View over Gondwanaland (white hall)

Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard in the terrarium.

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

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 313426496 LCCN: nb2013010865 GND: 10357-3 SUDOC: 184286476

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