Dresden Zoo
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| place | Tiergartenstrasse 1 01219 Dresden |
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| surface | 13 hectares | |
| opening | May 9, 1861 | |
| Animal species | 243 species (2019) | |
| Individuals | 1316 (2018) | |
| Species focus | Seldom shown Asian animals, European small birds and tree-dwelling species | |
| Visitor numbers | 903,000 (2018) record 1974 with almost 1.2 million visitors |
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| management | Wolfgang Ludwig (zoological director), Karl-Heinz Ukena (managing director) |
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| Sponsorship | Zoo Dresden GmbH, City of Dresden | |
| Funding organizations | Zoofreunde Dresden eV | |
| Member of | WAZA , EAZA , VdZ , Association of German-speaking Zoo Educators (VZP), ZGAP , International Snow Leopard Trust (ISLT) | |
 Map of the Dresden Zoo in the southwestern area of the Great Garden |
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| www.zoo-dresden.de | ||
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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 13 ″ N , 13 ° 45 ′ 14 ″ E
The Dresden Zoo was opened on May 9, 1861, making it the fourth oldest zoo in Germany after Berlin, Frankfurt / Main and Cologne . It is located in the southwest part of the Great Garden and is home to around 1,500 animals of 243 different species, including 82 species of birds and 64 species of mammals. In 2018 903,000 visitors came, in 2019 approx. 884,000. The area of the zoo is around 13 hectares.
history
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In 1859, at the suggestion of the Dresden “Association for Chicken Breeding”, a committee was formed which, in cooperation with the city administration, initiated the establishment of a zoo. As a landscape architect acted Peter Joseph Lenne and for all buildings of the zoo who drew architect Carl Adolph Canzler responsible. After two years of construction, the zoo was opened on May 9, 1861. The zoo's first director was Albin Schoepf , who built the zoo with the help of his son and later director, Adolph Schoepf . Since 1873, the zoo Dresden care of apes , especially the orangutans , which the zoo gained worldwide attention in 1927. For the first time, the growing up of an orangutan and the natural rearing by the mother were observed and documented. From 1910 to 1934 Gustav Brandes was in charge of the zoo, which laid the foundations for a modern zoo. He structured the zoo from a pure animal show to a species-appropriate attitude in a natural environment.
The bombing raid on Dresden on February 13, 1945 led to severe destruction in the zoological garden and destroyed almost the entire animal population, but it was reopened in May 1946. In 1950 Wolfgang Ullrich applied for an assistant position, was immediately appointed director and managed the zoological garden until his death in 1973. There has been a zoo school since 1968.
In 1960 the Indian elephant Schöpfi came to the zoo. She died in 2010.
A support association for the zoo was founded in 1992, and in 1997 construction began on the Africa House, which opened in 1999.
In February 2006 an elephant was born for the first time for the Dresden Zoo . The bull, weighing 107 kg at birth, was created by artificial insemination of Drumbo, the first time this was done in Germany on an elephant. The elephant was christened Thabo-Umasai. He then lived in the Pittsburgh Zoo (USA) from 2011 and died in July 2017.
Investments
Dresden Zoo is home to around 1,500 animals, including 579 birds, over 300 mammals and around 300 fish. They are looked after by 45 animal keepers.
Among the 243 species there are 82 bird, 64 mammal and around 40 fish species. The zoo has a very extensive population of domestic and European small birds for comparable facilities. In addition to the Thuringian Zoopark Erfurt, the Dresden Zoo is the only zoological facility in Germany that shows black lemurs .
Aquarium / terrarium
The building opened in 1961. It is home to piranhas , a giant Chinese salamander and reticulated pythons , among other things . The saltwater crocodile Max (1958–2015) was housed in the Prof. Brandes House .
Zoo underground
The "Underground Zoo" opened in 1997. The construction costs were around 400,000 marks . In the building of the underground facility, the life of fire salamanders , newts , atlas toads , king snakes , turkey spiny mice and other small animals is shown on around 70 m² . The showroom can be reached via stairs or a slide. In a simulated sewer are brown rats to see.
Africa House
The "Africa House" was inaugurated in 1999 and cost 12 million marks. It connects directly to the main entrance building. In the entrance area, glass panes provide a glimpse into the living room of the naked mole rat . In the main hall are the enclosures for mandrills and elephants. The inside enclosure of the mandrills covers an area of around 120 m² and the outside 250 m². The three African elephant cows Drumbo, Sawu and Mogli (until the end of 2011 also the calf Thabo-Umasai) have access to an indoor outdoor area, a bathing pool and individual boxes. In addition, there is an outdoor area with 2000 m², which is also equipped with a bathing pool.
The € 8.6 million renovation of the Afrikahaus was reopened on April 11, 2018 with 1000 square meters of floor space. For the enlargement of the indoor elephant enclosure, the forest floor-covered visitor path leading through the “ gallery forest ” and over a wooden bridge as well as the moat of the mandrill enclosure had to give way. From November 2018, the elephant bull Tembo, born in Zimbabwe in 1985, from the Berlin Zoo will be kept for breeding for some time. He has already fathered seven young animals.
Penguin plant
In 2005, the facility's old water basin was completely demolished. A new, naturally designed outdoor area was created for the group of Humboldt penguins . In mid-2006 the new facility was opened, which has bulletproof glass and a water filter system. The cost was around 98,000 euros.
Orangutan house
It opened in 1985. The visitor room was redesigned in 2005 with natural materials and interactive display boards. Wood and bamboo are the predominant materials now. There are four interconnected inner cages for the two orangutan groups at Dresden Zoo. There are two 5.50 meter high aviaries available outside. The larger of the two is about 20 meters long. The adult orangutans Toni, Dunjab, Daisy form a breeding group. Daisy's four-year-old daughter currently lives in this group. Djaka was born in the zoo in 1969 and lives in a box with half-sister Djudi.
In 2017, the Great Ape Project awarded the Dresden Zoo the “Negative Award 2017” for what the organization believes was the “worst orangutan keeping in a European zoo”. Zoo manager Karl-Heinz Ukena referred to the animals' good health. The deficiencies in keeping conditions are to be remedied by building a new orangutan house.
Lion caracal plant
In 2007 the new facility for the pair of lions Jago and Layla was opened. After half a year of construction and with construction costs of 2.8 million euros, the new lion savannah was built on an area of 1,300 square meters at the old predator house. According to the native habitat of the lions, caracals and zebra mongooses that are housed in the facility, the enclosure was designed as a savannah landscape. Visitors can watch the animals through glass windows or from a height of five meters. The facility is located directly on the restored visitor rock, which provides information on the history of the zoo in an exhibition. A water playground was also created.
Giraffe and zebra plant
In 2008 the new giraffe and zebra facility was opened. Many Dresden companies and the zoo's friends' association supported the construction of the new facility in order to revive the long tradition of keeping giraffes in the Dresden zoo after 24 years. After three male animals of different subspecies moved in - including the reticulated giraffe bull Ulembo until 2013 - it was decided to start breeding with Kordofan giraffes. The giraffe bull Diko and since 2013 the cow Tessa live here. In April 2015, the two-year-old cow Gaia from the Touroparc Zoo in Romanèche-Thorins was added. All three animals belong to the rare subspecies of the Kordofan giraffe, which in Germany can only be seen in Dresden.
Ring-tailed lemur island
The Katta Island facility opened in 2009. After the animals had settled in for some time, a bridge to the island was built for the visitors, which allows them to observe the animals without a barrier surrounding them. Black lemurs also live here at the moment.
Prof. Brandes House
The tropical house was opened on July 2, 2010. It is primarily home to climbing animals such as monkeys and sloths, but also birds, insects and, until his death in July 2015, the saltwater crocodile Max, which has been in the zoo's possession since 1958 . Furthermore moved on 18 November 2013, the two Koala -Männchen Iraga and Mullaya from the Duisburg Zoo one for which especially eucalyptus is grown. This made Dresden Zoo the second zoo in Germany in which these animals can be seen. A female koala named Sydney arrived from Antwerp Zoo in spring 2019. The facility is also home to guerezas , the symbol of the zoo. The animals have been bred since 1960 and over 70 young animals have been raised so far. In addition, the Prof. Brandes House houses ball armadillos , brown woolly monkeys , southern tamanduas , white-headed sakis , wrinkled hornbills and prevost squirrels , which are otherwise relatively rarely presented. In November 2015 a new crocodile, a 3.80 meter long and 200 kilogram heavy Sunda Gavial named De Gaulle, moved into the house.
Other plants
- In 2008, the zoo company and the architects Heinle, Wischer and Partner from Dresden received the Erlwein Prize for building the fodder and hay barn .
- The new snow leopard facility was opened in 2011. Two animals named Istari and Askin live here.
- The former monkey rock for the rhesus monkeys was converted into a facility for meerkats and opened in April 2013. The new facility for the little pandas was also opened in 2013.
- The zoo only keeps male animals in its cheetah enclosure , since August 2018 the brothers Job and Sjef .
- Other mammal species are kept in Dresden Zoo: zebra mongooses , trample , bantengs and golden takins .
Other Projects
- The 1973 penguin café was put into storage. A new building opened at the end of March 2018.
- For the three Aldabra giant tortoises Hugo II to Hugo IV, the Hugoneum is intended as public winter quarters for 500,000 euros. So far, the animals can only be seen in the summer months, as the temperature must be at least 12 ° at night. Hugo I, who has lived in the zoo since 1971, died in November 2018, his exact age remained unknown.
- A new walk-in flamingo aviary for seventy Cuba flamingos costs 1.5 million euros, is to be built from 2020 and opened in autumn 2020.
- A new orangutan house is being planned. It is to be built from the end of 2020 and opened in 2022.
Directors
| Years | Surname |
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| 1861 to 1881 | Albin Schoepf |
| 1881 to 1909 | Adolph Schoepf |
| 1910 to 1934 | Gustav Brandes |
| 1934 | Hellmuth Buck |
| 1934 to 1936 | Ingo Krumbiegel |
| 1937 to 1939 | Assistant: Hans Petzsch |
| 1939 to 1945 | The official director Hans Petzsch was convened . Karl Claus took over the commercial management and inspector Otto Sailer took over the zoological management. |
| 1945 to 1950 | Karl Claus |
| 1950 to 1973 | Wolfgang Ullrich |
| 1973 to 1984 | Gotthard Berger |
| 1984 to 1990 | Hans-Dieter Hohmann |
| 1991 | Heinz Eberhard Schneider |
| 1992 to 2002 | Hubert Lücker |
| since 2003 | Karl-Heinz Ukena |
Species protection
Dresden Zoo is a partner of the Species Protection Foundation , a global alliance between zoos, nature conservation organizations and commercial enterprises. The Species Protection Foundation takes care of the conservation of habitats and animal species on site. For example, it trains rangers, prevents logging and provides information to the local population.
Participation in the efforts of the European Zoo Association for conservation breeding
In the IUCN's Declaration of Principles, zoos are named as institutions whose task it is to raise reserve populations of threatened and extinct species. One of the most important tasks of all zoos was to promote species protection, particularly through internationally coordinated breeding programs for certain animal species, so that self-sustaining populations emerge in the zoos. The Dresden Zoo makes special efforts to breed endangered Asian wild animals such as bearded monkeys, orangutans, fish cats or the West Caucasian turkey. As part of its participation in the breeding programs of the EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquaria), Dresden Zoo is involved with 25 species in EEPs and eleven species in ESBs.
International Snow Leopard Trust
The zoo started a partnership in nature conservation in 2005 with the ISLT, the International Snow Leopard Trust. The ISLT works with the government representatives for wildlife in all five Indian highland states as well as with the traditional local administrations to promote nature conservation by participating in political decisions and actions and to develop a strategy for highland protection with the snow leopard.
One of the ISLT's projects received financial support from the zoo: In the high mountains in the north-east of Arunachal Pradesh, India, in the border region to Burma and Tibet, the ISLT wants to work with the Indian snow leopard program to establish a protection zone that will not only benefit the snow leopards, but also the to protect the entire biosphere with its plant and animal species from logging, slash and burn, pasture farming and hunting pressure.
marketing and advertisement
A tram of the Dresden public transport company was pasted as advertising space for the Dresden Zoo. It has been traveling on various lines in the city of Dresden since 2016.
Events
9,000 visitors came to the Dixieland im Zoo event in May 2018.
Zoo in the media
In 2007 ZDF started a zoo series from the Dresden Zoo in 32 episodes with Dresdner Schnauzen . In 2011, the MDR broadcast a special program with presenter Olaf Berger on the occasion of the 150th zoo birthday .
See also
literature
- Guide through the Dresden Zoological Garden . Verlag Türk, Dresden 1861 ( digitized version ) ( digitized version 1865 )
- Mustafa Haikal , Winfried Gensch: The song of the orangutan. The history of the Dresden Zoo. Edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden 2011. ISBN 978-3-938325-85-8 .
Web links
- Official website
- Website of the association with current information
- Website of the ZDF documentary series Dresdner Schnauzen about the Dresden Zoo ( Memento from January 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Excursion report of the Bielefeld Zoo AG
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Dresden Zoo animal inventory and focal points and special features. Homepage of the Dresden Zoo. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
- ↑ a b Inventory at Dresden Zoo: 1,700 animals - 265 species - 847,723 visitors. Article on Menschen-in-Dresden.de from January 7, 2016, accessed on April 27, 2016.
- ↑ a b c livestock. Focus and special features . Dresden Zoo
- ^ Zoo underground ( Memento from May 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). Zoo Friends Dresden eV
- ↑ Sächsische Zeitung of September 30, 2014 or February 3, 2015 or 10/11. June 2017 or Dresden Official Gazette from November 15, 2018.
- ↑ Anti-baby pill for orang-mothers Article from bild.de of January 3, 2018, accessed on January 6, 2018
- ↑ New penguin enclosure. ( Memento from May 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Zoo-Freunde Dresden eV
- ↑ sz-online: Negative price for the Dresden Zoo . In: SZ-Online . ( sz-online.de [accessed on January 31, 2017]).
- ↑ Details on the construction: Sächsische Zeitung, February 8, 2019, p. 7
- ↑ Opening of the lion savannah in Dresden Zoo ( Memento from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ulembo moves to the Katowice Zoo . Dresden Zoo, August 15, 2013.
- ↑ Zoo tour: giraffe and zebra enclosure . Dresden Zoo.
- ^ "Salut, je suis Tessa" . 22nd August 2013.
- ↑ a b New giraffe is coming in April . Dresden Zoo, March 13, 2015.
- ↑ Ready for the island. New ring-tailed lemur island opened. Dresden Zoo
- ^ Zoo mourns the visitor's favorite Max. Message on the homepage of the Dresden Zoo from 6 July 2015.
- ↑ Koalas arrived in Dresden . Dresden Zoo, November 19, 2013.
- ↑ New stars for the Dresden Zoo: Kuna and Talera become Dresden's Koalas ( Memento from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). DNN online, September 3, 2013.
- ↑ Hartelijk welkom Sydney. Announcement on the homepage of the Zoo Dresden from April 17th, 2019.
- ↑ Dresden Zoo, animals in the Prof. Brandes House. Dresden Zoo
- ↑ Discover new cheetahs now. Announcement on the homepage of the Zoo Dresden from August 28, 2018.
- ↑ Donations finance the new Hugo house. Sächsische Zeitung online from November 11, 2017.
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung, May 15, 2018.
- ^ Mourning in the Dresden Zoo: Hugo the giant tortoise died. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 22, 2018, accessed on August 19, 2020 .