Chemnitz zoo

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Chemnitz zoo
Chemnitz Zoo Logo.svg
place Nevoigtstrasse 18
09117 Chemnitz
surface 10 hectares
opening 1964
Animal species approx. 200 species (2014)
Individuals approx. 1000 animals (2014)
Visitor numbers 135,084 (2018)
organization
management Anja Dube
Funding organizations Animal park friends Chemnitz
Member of WAZA , EAZA , VdZ , Foundation for Species Protection
www.tierpark-chemnitz.de
Chemnitz Zoo (Saxony)
Chemnitz zoo

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 6 ″  N , 12 ° 50 ′ 6 ″  E

The Chemnitz Zoo is an animal park in Chemnitz, Saxony . It was founded in 1964. Initially, the focus was on the fauna of the former Soviet Union . The zoo is now dedicated to preserving endangered species. The park is located on the outskirts of the city of Chemnitz in a former swamp area. The approximately 10 hectare site is home to around 1000 individuals from around 200 animal species. The number of visitors was 2,014, including the Wild gate Oberrabenstein at 178,233.

Investments

The vivarium , which opened in 1996, houses around 60 amphibian species, a collection that is unique in Europe. In 2015, the first successful breeding of the little wanderer frogs, which had hardly been researched, took place in a German zoo.

In 2002 the zoo opened a tropical house. The canteen in a neighboring industrial wasteland was converted for this purpose.

The Angola lion Malik , who arrived in May 2005 and died in October 2018, was considered an attraction. Malik was born in the Leipzig Zoo . His breeding was on the television program Elephant, Tiger & Co. documented. On June 21, 2007, he and the female Kimba , who came from the Halle Zoo (Saale) , were transferred to a new enclosure at the entrance to the zoo.

After the death of the last female grizzly bear , the bear enclosure stood empty for a while. In February 2007, two female sloth bear moved in from the Leipzig Zoo. In 2011 they were socialized with macaques . The endangered sloth bears were not bred in Chemnitz. The remaining bear, Bodo , was given to the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha in 2018 . This means that big bears are no longer kept in Chemnitz.

With the Prince Alfred deer and the Mesopotamian fallow deer , the zoo has long been responsible for the conservation of atypical endangered zoo animals. Due to problems with breeding the Mesopotamian fallow deer, the zoo moved to keeping the Vietnamese Sika deer, which became extinct in the wild, in 2019 . A new deer stable (construction costs: 345,000 euros) was built in 2015.

At the end of 2017, the endangered Hartmann mountain zebras , with which the zoo wants to participate in the European conservation breeding program , also moved into the zebra enclosure, which was initially occupied by Böhm steppe zebras .

After the female Amurtiger Taiga died in autumn 2016 , the tomcat Jantar lived alone in the tiger enclosure. In December 2017, a second Amur tiger moved into the facility with Wolodja from the Nuremberg zoo . However, the 19-year-old Jantar was put to sleep just a few weeks later.

An African savannah with rhinos , a leopard forest and a Mongolian steppe with kulans and camels are in planning . The Oberrabenstein game gate, which has existed since 1973, is also part of the zoo.

Several incidents with predators occurred in the zoo: In January 2004 a lion injured a zoo keeper, in November 2006 the female leopard Cleopatra killed another zoo keeper. The same female leopard bite wounds on the face of a zookeeper in September 2017.

  • Lioness Kimba

  • Lion Malik

  • Goldbaumsteiger in the vivarium

  • Sloth bear

Attractions

literature

  • Anja Dube et al .: 50 years of the Chemnitz Zoo. Kommunikation & Design Verlag, Lugau 2014, ISBN 978-3-945434-00-0 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Tierpark Chemnitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Data sheet on the Chemnitz Zoo on the homepage of the Association of Zoological Gardens.
  2. ↑ Freie Presse Online - accessed on June 20, 2011
  3. ^ Offspring in the vivarium of the Chemnitz Zoo. Press release 181 of the City of Chemnitz from April 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ New flat share in the Chemnitz zoo with macaques. ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release 790 of the City of Chemnitz from October 28, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chemnitz.de
  5. ↑ The trample girl is called "Nara". Press release 327 of the city of Chemnitz from May 2, 2018.
  6. ↑ Current reports from 2019 on the website of the Chemnitz Zoo, here from March 1, 2019.
  7. ↑ Start of construction for Hirschhausen. Chemnitzer Morgenpost of March 17, 2015, p. 5.
  8. ↑ New deer stable inaugurated in the Chemnitz zoo. ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Sachsen-Fernsehen, article of November 27, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sachsen-fernsehen.de
  9. ↑ Chemnitz Zoo: Offspring among the pygmy silk monkeys. Press release 104 of the City of Chemnitz from February 8, 2018.
  10. ↑ Chemnitz Zoo: Tiger Jantar had to be redeemed. Press release 57 of the City of Chemnitz from January 24, 2018.
  11. ↑ Leopard tears up zookeeper. www.focus.de, November 11, 2006, accessed October 9, 2012 .
  12. ↑ Leopard Cleopatra falls to keepers in the Chemnitz zoo. Free press, article from September 22, 2017.