Kristiansand Dyrepark
The Kristiansand Zoo ( Norwegian: Kristiansand Dyrepark ) is an animal and adventure park near the Norwegian Kristiansand and is owned by Braganza AB .
history
The operating company, founded in 1964, opened the park in 1966. Today it is one of Norway's largest tourist attractions . In 2008, 631,210 visitors were counted in the amusement park with over 800 animals in more than 100 animal species, summer theater and many attractions.
The initiative to found the park came from Willy Tjomsaas. From 1965 Edvard Moseid was responsible for the expansion and development of the zoo, which opened on June 26, 1966. Edvard Moseid worked in the park until 2000.
In the 1970s, Kristiansand Zoo was the world's largest exporter of camels .
The chimpanzee Julius was born on December 26, 1979. He grew up in the house and in the Edvard Moseid family; he became known throughout Norway through a TV series and is one of the zoo's great attractions.
From 1983 the park was expanded into a combined animal and leisure park. The artist and author Terje Formoe worked from 1984 to 1994 as a marketing and entertainment manager at the zoo and built up a musical program for children and families, the main character of which, Kaptein Sabeltann , first shown in 1989, quickly gained popularity. Every year since 1989, performances related to the pirate's adventures have been shown in an amphitheater , and an entire section of the park is devoted to the events surrounding Captain Saber Tooth. In 1991 another section of the park, the Kardemomme by by Thorbjørn Egner , was opened.
On May 25, 2007 the zoo received two female and two male lions from a Danish zoo; both females gave birth to offspring in 2008.
The largest single investment was made with 115 million Norwegian kroner for the Badelandet , a bathing area, which opened on June 25, 2010 .
construction
The park consists of the zoo and the adventure park; both partially merge into one another.
The zoo are wolves , wolverines , Eurasian lynx , moose , snakes , crocodiles , cheetahs , giraffes , zebras , lions, Siberian tigers , orangutans , gibbons , goats , deer and as other animals. Over large parts of the zoo, visitors come across bridges so that they can see the animals from above.
The KuToppen farm was opened in 2009; it was named and designed after a TV series of the same name.
The amusement park consists of the Badelandet bathing area , the world of Captain Saber Tooth with the pirate town of Abra Havn, the Kardemomme by, the Båtbasaren , the Kjuttaviga amphitheater and the Sørlandsbrygga restaurant area .
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Coordinates: 58 ° 11 ′ 6 ″ N , 8 ° 8 ′ 29 ″ E