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
Land area	27 hectares (67 acres)^[1]
Number of species	~850^[1]
Annual visitors	2 million (2011)^[1]
Memberships	EAZA,^[2] WAZA^[3]
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 27 hectares (67 acres) and contains approximately 850 different species.^[1]

The zoo is internationally noted for its large building projects such as Pongoland (housing gorilla, chimpanzee, bonobo and orangutan) and Gondwanaland (world's largest indoor rainforest hall at 1.65 ha or 4.1 acres).^[4] It has bred more than 2,000 lions, 250 rare Siberian tigers, and other carnivores like bears.^[5]^[6] Leipzig Zoological Garden has been called the "Zoo of the future".^[7]

Entrance
View over Gondwanaland (white hall)
Kiwara Savanne with giraffe, zebra, oryx and crowned crane
Bridge over the Parthe river inside the zoo.
Eastern blue-tongued lizard in the terrarium.

Notes

1 2 3 4 Zoo Leipzig. Zoo Historie
↑ "EAZA Member Zoos & Aquariums". eaza.net. EAZA. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
↑ "Zoos and Aquariums of the World". waza.org. WAZA. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
↑ Marcopolo.de (31 October 2011). Deutschland: Eröffnung 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

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 Oceanographic Museum Ozeaneum Sea Life Centres Germany

Historical	Königsberger Tiergarten (now in Kaliningrad, Russia)

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

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