Dessau animal park
| Dessau animal park | ||
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| particularities | Located in the historic park around the Dessau Mausoleum | |
| place | Querallee 8 06846 Dessau-Roßlau |
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| surface | 11 ha | |
| opening | 1958 | |
| Animal species | approx. 120 | |
| Individuals | about 500 | |
| Visitor numbers | approx. 100,000 annually | |
| organization | ||
| management | Jan Bauer | |
| Sponsorship | City of Dessau-Roßlau | |
| Funding organizations | Tierparkfreunde Dessau e. V. | |
| Member of | DTG | |
 Entrance to the zoo |
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| tierpark.dessau-rosslau.de | ||
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Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 41.2 " N , 12 ° 14 ′ 2.6" E
The Tierpark Dessau is a 11 hectares large zoo in the city of Dessau . Laid out in 1958 in the park of a mausoleum from the 19th century, it is an important local recreation area for over 100,000 visitors every year.
location
The zoo is located in the Ziebigk district , immediately east of the Georgium and, together with Georgengarten and Beckerbruch, forms a large landscape park, but is not part of the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm World Heritage Site like them .
Livestock
Around 500 specimens from a total of 120 different species are housed in the zoo. Most of the animals come from the European area. The animal population ranges from wolves , goats and donkeys to kangaroos and llamas to jaguars and coatis .
The newest facility in the park is the dune landscape mudflat facility , which offers various avocets , lapwing etc. a home. In 2009, the facility was awarded the BdZ beaver for species-appropriate animal husbandry .
The reticulated python Otto , who had lived in the zoo since 1979 and was euthanized in 2018 , reached an extraordinary age of 40 . A tiger python has been kept since Otto's death .
Web links
- Official website of the Dessau Zoo
- Animal and botanical nature trail in Dessau
- Zoo Dessau at the Zoo-Infos.de database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Animals with a story in the Dessau Zoo. News from the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of July 13, 2017.
- ↑ Six goats and a snake. Zoo is happy to welcome new residents. News from the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of May 24, 2018.