Cologne Zoo

Cologne Zoo
Full name	Cologne Zoological Garden
motto	Animal Kölsch
place	Riehler Strasse 173 50735 Cologne
surface	20 hectares
opening	July 22, 1860
Animal species	863 species (Dec. 31, 2019)
Individuals	11,733 animals (December 31, 2019)
Visitor numbers	1,346,956 (2019)
organization
management	Theo Pagel Christopher Landsberg
Sponsorship	Aktiengesellschaft Zoologischer Garten Cologne
Funding organizations	Friends of the Cologne Zoo eV
Member of	approx. 25 including WAZA , EAZA , ZGAP , VDZ , Association of German-speaking Zoo Educators (VZP) etc.
Aerial photo of the Cologne Zoo from 2010
koelnerzoo.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 30 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 24 ″  E

The Cologne Zoological Garden in the northern district of Riehl was founded in 1860 and is the third oldest zoo among the zoos in Germany today . He is involved in numerous conservation breeding of animal species. With over 1.3 million accesses (in 2019), it is one of the most visited facilities of its kind in Germany.

Historical development

Statue for the founder of the Cologne Zoo, Caspar Garthe

1857-1914

At the instigation of Caspar Garthe , the "Actiengesellschaft Zoologischer Garten zu Cöln" was founded in 1858 with a share capital of 100,000 thalers. The Company acquired a located close to the Rhine area in time for the community in the north of the city Longerich belonging Riehl and promoted the development of the village to the Cologne entertainment district. The city horticultural director Anton Strauss was entrusted with the horticultural design of the complex .

Heinrich Bodinus was appointed the first director of the zoo, which opened on July 22, 1860 . He moved into the classicist director's villa built in 1859/60, which is the oldest surviving residential building in the zoological garden and in Riehl.

The first animal enclosures were built in the Moorish architectural style, which was very popular at the time . Only the former giraffe and antelope house , which was built according to a design by Josef Felten in 1863, has survived. In 1874 it was expanded into an elephant house with stylistic borrowings from Indian temples and served as an enclosure for the pachyderms until the elephant park was built in 2004.

Since the early days of the zoo, the cattle houses built by Alfred Müller in 1884 in the so-called "Swiss log cabin style", the sea lion rock built in 1887 and the bird house, which was opened in 1899 and inspired by the architecture of Russian churches, have been used as enclosures. The listed buildings and facilities only meet the requirements of modern animal husbandry to a limited extent, with the zoo making every effort to incorporate modern standards into the old shell during renovations.

The approximately ten meter high monkey rock, inaugurated in 1914, followed the then revolutionary, gridless animal presentation that Carl Hagenbeck had introduced in his Hamburg zoo in 1907 . The new type of facility, which also included a polar bear basin with 8 meter high cliffs and an eagle mountain, which was destroyed in the war, was planned by Max Stirn on behalf of the zoo director Ludwig Wunderlich. The monkey rock, lively populated with baboons , has been one of the attractions for zoo visitors for over 100 years.

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  Moorish-Indian: Antelope House (1863)

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  Log house: cattle house (1884)

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  Tufa: sea lion rock (1886/87)

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  Russian: Historic bird house (1899)

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  Outdoor enclosure: Monkey Island (1914)

Between 1878 and 1932, seven national shows took place in Cologne Zoo , at which members of “exotic” peoples - men, women and children - were presented to the public under simulated living conditions. Such events could be sensationally (and falsely) presented as an exhibition of " cannibals ", as in the case of a group of New Caledonians exhibited in 1931 . But they were also announced as an “exotic fashion show in Cologne Zoo”, for example at an event with black Africans from the Sara-Kaba people in the same year.

1914-1947

Gridless: Camel Park from 1936

Registered share for RM 300 in the Zoological Garden in Cologne from June 20, 1930

The First World War , the Great Depression and the Second World War were a tough time for the zoo, which lost large parts of its animal population during these years and had to give up its independence. Structurally, the facility did not develop any further; only the barred camel enclosure was rebuilt in 1936 in the entrance area of ​​the zoo.

At the end of the First World War, the number of animals was reduced to a quarter due to a lack of feed. It was not until 1924 that the number of animals returned to the pre-war level, because the zoo director managed to acquire the stock of the Wroclaw Zoo , which had to be closed completely. Persistent financial difficulties of the Actiengesellschaft Zoologischer Garten zu Cöln led in 1937 to the fact that the city took over the majority of shares in the capital stock increased to 450,000 Reichsmarks. Since then, the city of Cologne has covered the losses.

During the Second World War, the zoo suffered badly from Allied bombing; from 1944 the garden remained closed. At the end of the war it was almost completely destroyed, had 133 bomb craters - and 23 animals. Almost without exception, the animal houses were badly damaged and no longer usable. Only the elephant house built in 1863/74 survived the war largely unscathed.

1947-1981

After initial clean-up work, the zoo was reopened in 1947; Individual new animals could also be acquired, including in 1950 the chimpanzee, which later entered zoo history as Petermann . In 1952 the renovated bird house was put back into operation, and in 1955 the sea ​​lions moved into the restored sea lion pool. The polar bears benefited from the first large new building in 1956/1957 . In place of the polar bear cliffs destroyed in the war, Kurt Meywald, commissioned by zoo director Wilhelm Windecker, built a system in exposed concrete , in which the concrete slabs pushed into the water basin like stylized ice floes from a calving glacier .

The zoo opened up to a new size in 1960 when the site of the former cycling track was added to the zoo and the area of ​​the zoo was expanded significantly from 11 to 18.8 hectares. The basis for the further expansion of the zoo to its old importance was the ideal plan drawn up in 1957 on behalf of the City Director Max Adenauer , which was implemented with considerable financial resources until 1973: new zoo restaurant (1958), Africa facility for zebras , wildebeest and ostriches (1959) , Penguin basin with cooling system (1960), pheasantry (1961), new administration building at the zoo entrance (1962), outdoor areas for lions and tigers (1964), giraffe house (1966), bear outdoor area (1969) and lemur house (1973). The sober, purpose-built form of the new buildings with exposed concrete supports, red brick surfaces and the bare tiled bathroom culture followed the contemporary taste of visual functionality, but two decades later only partially corresponded to the modern understanding of animal-friendly husbandry. In 1964, the first zoo school in Europe was opened in Cologne Zoo.

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  Zoo entrance and administration building (1962)

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  Tiger enclosure (1964)

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  Giraffe House (1966)

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  Bear enclosure (1969)

The most expensive construction project to date in Cologne Zoo was built from 1968 to 1971 in the form of the aquarium , which also includes a terrarium and an insectarium . The mayor and zoo supervisory board member Theo Burauen , who viewed the zoo extension as part of the Federal Horticultural Show held in 1971 , was particularly committed to the construction . From 1973, however, the financial strength of the city of Cologne was exhausted and the zoo had to take a longer construction break with more modest means.

1981-2012

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At the zoo 2012 (video)

In the transition to the 1980s, the Cologne Zoo was financially drained and structurally ailing. The historic elephant house built in 1863 and the monkey rock built in 1914 were considered dilapidated, the bird house, which opened in 1899 and had housed the great apes since 1980, was in urgent need of renovation. At the same time - accompanied by the strong promotion of the Cologne zoo management - the trend established itself in the European zoos to keep animals in a species-appropriate simulation of the natural habitat and to dismantle the old menageries and cages.

Both of these forced Cologne Zoo to undergo a sustainable redesign, which the zoo director Gunther Nogge , who was in office from 1981 to 2006, through lively advertising campaigns and with the financial support of the friends of the Cologne Zoo founded in 1982. V. “mastered. One of Europe's exciting sign of the new understanding of the zoo animal husbandry was opened in 1985 Urwaldhaus for apes . It is designed on an area of ​​2200 m² as a humid greenhouse with a jungle-like flora to offer orangutans , gorillas , bonobos and guerezas a jungle-like environment. This major project was an early example of zoo architecture for an immersion enclosure that allows animals to be kept under natural conditions that the visitor appears to enter as a stranger.

Also in 1985, the first European Endangered Species Program (EEP) was launched in Cologne Zoo .

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  Jungle house (1985) for great apes

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  Rainforest House Southeast Asia (2000)

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  Elephant Park (2004)

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  Hippodome (2010)

Numerous other enclosures - such as the cheetah enclosure (1987), the leopard enclosure (1993/94) and the owl monastery ( 1997) - continued this line and demonstrated the zoo's new self-image as a modern nature conservation center. Cologne has been a gridless zoo since the mid-1990s. After the turn of the millennium, the zoo directors realized three large enclosures - the tropical house Rainforest Southeast Asia (2000), the elephant park ( 2004) and the hippodom (2010), a replica of an African river landscape - as lighthouse projects for their understanding of progressive zoo gardening.

2012 until today

To transform the zoo even more into an educational world of experience, zoo director Theo Pagel presented a new master plan for the zoo in 2012 .

This plan provides for a profound redesign of the zoo, with the historic enclosures and the old trees on the site being preserved. The animals are to be grouped in the zoo according to geographic zones ( geozoo ), and the continents of Africa , South America , Asia , Europe and the Arctic can be experienced. Within the Asia region, a new dragon house is planned as a greenhouse, in which the Komodo dragon and the quince monitor will be shown. The historic bird house is to be converted into a South American house and will offer space for the howler monkey and the jaguar , among other things .

From the Congo: the okapi

Several changes are planned for the African animal world: The visitors should be able to roam the African vastness in a two-part savannah area. Among other things, the historic antelope house from 1863/74 is to be converted into a modern enclosure for rhinos . A newly planned Congo house to the center of a simulated African forest landscape are to the high trees in the central area of the zoo the space for outdoor enclosure for gorilla , bonobo , Congo peacock and Okapi will provide. A new building is planned for the Madagascar house, which will be supplemented by a lemur island. Ultimately, the plan provides for the previously unused meadow between Frohngasse and the aquarium to be redesigned into an arctic landscape.

As a first measure from the master plan, the hacienda was opened in South America . In 2014 the Clemenshof was opened in the Europe zone . This replica of a mountain farm shows breeds of farm animals threatened with extinction . A new house for the zoo school and the zoo shop was also built in the Clemenshof, as well as accommodation for the mascot of 1. FC Cologne , Hennes VIII .

In memory of the New Jersey Holocaust survivor Arnulf Reichert, who survived the persecution of Jews in Cologne and brought a turtle from the Jordan to the zoo from Israel in 1954 , his widow donated 22 million US dollars to a foundation in the mid-2010s that regularly receives money the zoo should invest. Arnulf Reichert, who grew up in Hürth-Gleuel near Cologne, had spoken out in favor of animal welfare all his life with his wife, and even before his death in 1998 they decided together to donate to the city's zoo, where they met when Reichert was with his aunt his future wife hid. In return, a South American pavilion to be built is to be named after him.

Directors of the Cologne Zoo

Logo of the zoo until 2007

• 1859–1869 Heinrich Bodinus
• 1870–1886 Nicolas Funck
• 1886–1888 Ludwig Heck
• 1888–1928 Ludwig Wunderlich
• 1929–1938 Friedrich Hauchecorne
• 1938–1951 Werner Zahn
• 1952–1975 Wilhelm Windecker
• 1975–1981 Ernst Kullmann
• 1981-2006 Gunther Nogge
• since 2007 Theo Pagel and Christopher Landsberg

Cologne Zoo has had a dual leadership since mid-2007. Theo Pagel, zoo director and chairman of the board of the stock corporation Zoologischer Garten Köln, and Christopher Landsberg, commercial director and board member, run the zoo together.

The main plants

The sea lion rock

Historic sea lion rock from 1887

Five California sea lions currently live on the historic sea lion rock from 1887, the foundations of which have been preserved until today . In 2010 the facility was extensively renovated.

Historic bird house

The historic bird house

In 1899 the new bird house was built in the style of a Russian Orthodox church. A year later, the first monkeys, a pair of orangutans, moved in. In 1903 the first aquariums and terrariums were set up inside the building. It was badly damaged in World War II and reopened in 1952. When the zoo received chimpanzees and other orangutans in the late 1950s, the aviaries were converted to house the great apes. The first chimpanzee cub was born in 1962 and the first orangutan, Lotti, was born on January 29, 1971. She died on May 30, 2010, has spent her entire life in Cologne Zoo, and has given birth and raised three young animals here.

After the great apes moved to the new jungle house in 1985, the bird house became the South American house. The interior was designed as a tropical rainforest, the path led over a soft floor of heaped mulch, and little monkeys ran above the heads of the visitors in walkways that connected the enclosures on both sides of the house. The golden-yellow lion tamarin , the red howler monkey , the yellow-breasted capuchin and the red-bellied tamarin were kept. Of the numerous offspring, five marmosets were released back into the wild in Brazil.

In 2008 the residents moved into a newly built glass house. More damage than expected was found during the renovation work. Due to a lack of money, the renovation work took a long time and only the outdoor enclosure could still be used. An accessible rainforest with monkeys, birds and other small animals from the South American jungle is expected to be reopened in the listed building by 2019 and will be part of the new South American area of ​​the zoo.

Baboons on the monkey rock

The monkey rock

One of the oldest institutions of the Cologne Zoo monkeys rock on which a large number of one coat baboons in several smaller squads harem lives. It was built in 1914 and took up Carl Hagenbeck's new ideas for keeping animals: a moat surrounds the monkey rock, and visitors have a barrier-free view of the animals.

Since coat baboons have a complex social system made up of small family groups, the so-called harems, clans or gangs, it makes sense from an animal care point of view to keep many individuals in zoological gardens so that the animals can live out their normal social behavior. The number of mantled baboons in Cologne Zoo has been successfully regulated for over ten years with the help of a birth control measure, so that the animal population is always about the same with minor deviations and does not increase any further.

The daily feeding of the robed baboons is very popular with the zoo visitors. In the summer months, an animal keeper climbs into the moat and from there throws apples , celery , hard-boiled eggs , carrots , leeks and the like to the monkeys . The animals show a large part of their behavioral repertoire. Above all, this includes disputes among the female animals of neighboring harem groups, since for them, as for all female mammals, food is a key resource. The harem leaders react to the arguments of “their” females by trying to lead the females away and thus restore peace. Often the males also clash and show their ability to defend themselves by threatening gestures such as pumping their cheeks or threatening yawns and sham attacks.

Mantled baboons are one of the less endangered animal species, which is why there is no need to keep this animal species in the zoo for reasons of conservation breeding. Mantled baboons, however, are one of the animal species that are attractive to zoo visitors because of their lively behavior, and so the monkey rock is one of the zoo's main attractions.

In recent years there have been frequent escape attempts by baboons who, by nature afraid of water, have partially lost their fear of water when fishing for pieces of food that have fallen into the water ditch. This was prevented by wires stretched across the moat.

Chameleon in the aquarium construction

The aquarium

The large aquarium was built in 1971 outside the actual zoo grounds. In addition to fish , lizards , Philippines crocodiles and snakes are kept here. An insectarium is also one of the aquarium's facilities.

Fish are shown in a number of small tanks. One of the special features is a large reef aquarium that shows life on a coral reef and where numerous doctor and rabbit fish are kept. In the large Tanganyika basin , the typical cichlids that occur in this large freshwater lake are shown. One of the special features is the so-called “ Rhine panorama ”, which shows the fish species that are at home in the various sections of the Rhine.

The jungle house

Great apes have been one of the most popular animals at Cologne Zoo since it was founded. Until 1970 the animals - including the famous chimpanzee Petermann - lived in the old monkey house, which was poorly restored after the war, and then in the converted bird house. It was not until the 1980s that the zoo, under the bustling management of the zoo director Gunther Nogge, was able to raise the financial resources of 6.5 million DM at the time to build a new ape house that was also groundbreaking for zoo architecture .

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  Bonobos

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  Redshank Dressed Monkey

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  Redshank coat monkey and black crested langur

The jungle house, opened in 1985, was one of the first immersion enclosures in Europe. In an 11-meter-high greenhouse with an area of ​​2,200 square meters, a jungle-like living environment was created through which a 170-meter-long visitor path meanders. In this way, humans appear to enter the natural primeval forests of the great apes as a stranger. The floor is modeled on different levels with a difference in height of up to 1.30 meters in order to offer the monkeys connecting paths, open spaces and circular walks and to enable the alpha animals to present themselves on raised platforms. Thick ropes hang from the ceiling grids for hanging, swinging and climbing. In addition, the monkeys can use cage corridors to reach the naturally green outdoor area.

In the jungle house living (partly in breeding groups): bonobos , western lowland gorillas , Bornean orangutans , redshank dresses monkeys , macaques , coat monkeys and pygmy marmoset , the smallest with 14 centimeters Size known primates in the world.

The "Owl Monastery"

Hawk Owl in the " Owl Monastery"

Is slightly hidden away Inaugurated in May 1997 "Owl monastery" - a mixture of free-flight conditioning and individual enclosures where Bartkäuze , Sperber owls , long-eared owls , pygmy owl , barn owls and grouse , black storks , kestrels and ibises live.

The animals are kept together whenever possible - so the hawk owls share an enclosure with the bearded owls and grouse. In addition to kestrels, bald ibises and black storks, the veiled owls and long-eared owls also live in the free-flight facility. At the beginning of 2005 both the black storks and the hawk owls showed courtship behavior and preparations for breeding. For this reason, the bearded owls and kestrels were cared for behind the scenes in order to leave the brood animals largely undisturbed.

A camera was also installed in the incubator offered for the hawk owls so that visitors can observe the brood and later the rearing of the nestlings . The courtship behavior of the birds, which is accompanied by an abundance of different vocalizations, can already be clearly observed. The nest of the black storks, on the other hand, is relatively easy to see for visitors.

The Owl Monastery, especially with the free flight hall, meets modern animal care requirements. The animals are not presented, but live in an environment appropriate to their natural environment. This sometimes makes it difficult for visitors to discover the animals - especially on days with a high number of visitors, the owls remain inconspicuous in their resting places and are easily overlooked by visitors.

The rainforest house

The rainforest was built on the last unused area of ​​the zoo , a tropical and bird house dedicated to the primeval forests of Southeast Asia . In addition to the animals and plants that have been seen there since spring 2000, it also houses an exhibition hall and an event room. The building was financed for the most part from donations, just like all current expansions and construction projects, which are not only used for maintenance, have to be financed from donations and with the help of sponsors.

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  White-handed gibbon

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  Matschie tree kangaroo

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  Red breasted crowned pigeon

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  Collar dove

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  Formerly kept double hornbill

The rainforest house consists of a large free-flight hall as well as individual enclosures located on a gallery. It contains various species of birds, including z. B. Palm cockatoos , Papualoris , grimace cuckoos , Renauldkuckucke , blue-faced honeyeater , Rotohrbülbüls , Bali starlings , fairy bluebird , helmet hornbills , long-tailed fruit pigeons , Palawan Pfaufasanen , ears carrier peacocks , Zwergpfeifgänse and various reptiles such as Green Water Dragons , Philippine hydrosaurus and reticulated pythons . Most of the airworthy birds kept here are in the upper area of ​​the hall. The birds living on the ground can enter the visitor area, as can the chestnut-breasted crowned pigeons , which have permanent habitats and have successfully raised their offspring. Other animals in the tropical forest house are the dwarf otters , which have also had offspring several times, Matschie tree kangaroos , giant bark rats and the white-handed gibbons .

The elephant park

The new elephant house built in 2004

As a replacement for the listed elephant house, the "Cologne Elephant Park" was inaugurated on September 19, 2004. On the area of ​​the former large pond in the center of the zoo, an approximately 2 hectare enclosure for Asian elephants was created . The facility, which is important in zoo architecture, takes into account the latest findings in elephant keeping and has been built in such a way that bulls can also be kept.

The construction cost a total of around 15 million euros. More than 7000 m³ of concrete and 1000 tons of steel were used in two years . The park was designed by the architects Oxen + Römer from Hürth . In the indoor enclosure, an existing mountain of rubble was included in the planning, so that it is partly on a slope. It is spanned by an approximately 3000 m² green wooden roof. Daylight enters the interior through openings in the ceiling and walls. This part has underfloor heating for the benefit of the elephants. Outside, visitors are separated from the animals by pools of water and artificial rocks. To protect the elephants' joints, cushioning sand was imported from the Sahara .

A so-called crush cage is located in the connecting area between the two enclosures . This is a box, the side walls of which can be moved together in order to enable easier handling of the animal during medical interventions that do not take place under anesthesia and to offer animal keepers greater safety. In addition, this box is provided with a scale.

On May 2, 2012, the Asian female elephant Chumpol, imported from Thailand in September 2006, died after an argument with other herd members in which she was seriously injured.

Since January 26, 2017, the herd has consisted of two adult bulls, eight cows and four young animals.

The hippodome

The hippodom is the third major project in the Cologne zoo that is dedicated to the new adventure and species protection concept. It was opened in April 2010 and is an accessible replica of an African river landscape in a 3,500 m² building.

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  African river landscape

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  Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)

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  Nile crocodile

The Hippodom currently houses four hippos , four Nile crocodiles , Sitatunga -Antilopen and other residents of an African river landscape, including various species of birds, such as three-color glossy starlings , cattle egrets , Gelbbrustpfeifgänse , Scharlachspinte , neck band Weber , grays , olive pigeons , musophaga , Bare-throated noise birds , crown lapwings , hammer heads and Hagedasch , fish like Nile perch and Niltilapie , small mammals such as Red-brown elephant shrews , Red-legged sun Squirrel and Rodrigues fruit bats and reptiles such as the African helmeted turtle , agama , Yemen chameleons , Brown house snakes and African egg-eaters . Glass panes allow underwater views. Insights into the systems are also possible from above and from the side.

Geozoo

In 2012, zoo director Theo Pagel presented the master plan for the zoo . This plan provides for a profound redesign of the zoo, with the animals being grouped according to geographic zones ( Geozoo ); the continents Africa , South America , Asia , Europe and the Arctic should be made tangible.

South America

As the first element in the future South America area, the Hacienda gastronomy was opened in 2012 in addition to the enclosure for the flatland tapir and the capybara , and an enclosure for the giant anteater was added. In addition, the bird house built in the style of a Russian Orthodox church from 1899 is being extensively renovated. The building, also known as the South American House, is expected to be converted into a walk-in rainforest for monkeys, birds and other small animals of the South American jungle by the beginning of 2021 . The building is to be reopened under the name Arnulf-Reichert-Haus - named after a major American donor to the zoo.

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  Capybara with the hacienda in the background

Europe

In 2014 the Clemenshof was opened in the Europe zone . This replica of a Bergisch farm from the 19th century shows animal breeds threatened with extinction , which are no longer used in modern agriculture and is supplemented by a petting zoo and the zoo shop. For example, the Black Holstein lowland cattle , the Swabian-Hällische Landschwein, the Pomeranian duck , the Diepholzer goose , the Rhenish piebald , the Meißner ram , the Moorschnucke , the Poitou donkey and the Bergisch Schlotterkamm are bred. In addition to preservation breeding, the farm is primarily intended to make children understand how everyday food is produced.

In the main building of the courtyard, new rooms were also created for the zoo school, with 500 m² of space for around 20,000 students a year.

The mascot of 1. FC Köln , the billy goat Hennes VIII, is also housed in the Clemenshof area .

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  Clemenshof (2014)

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Asia

In 2017, the long-standing alpaca enclosure was converted into a modern facility for the endangered Bantengs, Asian wild cattle.

In anticipation of future construction work in the planned South America area, the small pandas (from Asia) have been relocated within the zoo. A new facility was built for them in 2018 near the big cat facilities. A facility for jaguars is to be built in the area of ​​their previous enclosure.

An extensive modernization of the Tiger plant from the 1960s was completed in early July 2020. The converted system should enable both better keeping and a more interesting presentation of the tigers. Additional enclosures, a wall for occupational training and a high climbing tree were created for the animals. The visitors are offered different perspectives on the tigers through a newly laid staircase and through large viewing windows. A part of the investment costs of two million euros could be covered by a cooperation with the WWF. In a joint fundraising campaign, funds were raised for the renovation of the Cologne tiger facility and for the protection of wild tigers in the Amur region.

Successful breeding of elephants

In the last few years the Cologne Zoo has been able to record some breeding successes with its elephants; all births took place within the herd without human intervention. The mother of the bull, born on January 26, 2017, was also born in Cologne Zoo. This is the first time that the zoo is in the second generation.

• Marlar (♀) (" blossom " or " flower "), the first Asian elephant calf to be born in Cologne Zoo, was born on March 30, 2006. The herd could be observed worldwide via webcam during the gestation period . The birth of Marlar could not be seen by the zoo employees either, because the elephant cow had withdrawn into a blind spot. Marlar's father Radza lives in the zoo in Emmen, the Netherlands. Marlar's mother, Kaingh Lwin Htoo, was put to sleep on December 13, 2006 because of health problems. The first problems arose before Marlar was born. Euthanasia was initially delayed in order to allow Marlar to grow up as normally as possible.
• On September 16, 2006 five more elephant cows from Thailand came to Cologne Zoo. The cow Tonk Koon was already pregnant. The birth of Ming Jung (♂) followed on April 16, 2007. The bull owes its name to a campaign by the Kölner Express , in which readers were asked to choose a name for the baby elephant. The jury, made up of employees from the newspaper and the Cologne Zoo, chose “Ming Jung” (“My boy”) because the Cologne expression has an Asian sound. On July 12, 2012, Ming Jung came to Antwerp Zoo, where he grew up with two other young male animals.
• May 9, 2007: Maha Kumari (♀) ("Great Princess"); Mother: Thi Ha Phyu; Father: Bindu
• July 27, 2009: Khin Yadanar Min (♂) ("Victorious Jewel"); Mother: Aye Chan May; Father: Bindu
• April 8, 2011: Rajendra (♂) ("King of the Gods"); Mother: Tong Koon; Father: Sang Raja
• July 25, 2012: Bindi (♀) ( Burmese for "little dots"); Mother: Shu Tu Zar; Father: Bindu
• March 16, 2016: La Min Kyaw (♂) (Burmese for "famous king born on a Wednesday"); Mother: Shu Tu Zar; Father: Bindu
• January 26, 2017: Jung Bul Kne (♂) (last name of the members of the Cologne triumvirate 2017); Mother: Maha Kumari; Father: Sang Raja ("Magnificent King"). Jung Bul Kne is the second calf of Maha Kumari and Sang Raja, the first calf died after a gestation period of 14 months, presumably as a result of a smallpox infection. This makes Jung Bul Kne the first successful second generation in the Cologne Zoo.
• March 20, 2017: Moma (♂) (named after the ARD morning magazine ); Mother: Marlar; Father: Sang Raja
• June 7, 2017: Kitai (♂) ( Japanese for "Hopeful Ruler"); Mother: Tong Koon; Father: Sang Raja
• June 12, 2017: no name given (♂), died on June 18, 2017; Mother: Kreeblamduan; Father: Sang Raja
• June 17, 2020: Leev Ma Rie (♀) (love Marie kölsche expression with an Asian sound), mother: Shu Tu Zar; Father: Bindu

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  Marlar with her mother Kaingh Lwin Htoo (2006)

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  Marlar shortly after her first birthday (2007)

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  Ming Young and Three Cows (2007)

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  Mother Marlar with Moma (2017)

The research projects of the Cologne Zoo

Cologne Przewalski horses in the driving snow

The Cologne Zoo supports a number of nature conservation projects and accompanies them scientifically:

• Support of the Zambian nature conservation authority to curb poaching on the Luangwa River in Zambia
• Spectacled Bear project in Peru
• Rainforest protection project in Vietnam

The Cologne Zoo has been supporting the Phong Nha-Ke Bang nature reserve in central Vietnam since 1999 and is working together with the nature conservation authority of the University of Hanoi .

• Projects to rescue the Przewalski horses at the locations in Cologne, Hunnesrück , Sprakeler Heide , Tennenloher Forst and Schorfheide Wildlife Park with research support from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research and subsequent reintroduction in the Hortobágy - Puszta in Hungary and in Xinjiang ( China )
• Protection of the last Sclaters Makis in Madagascar .

Wild animals in Cologne Zoo

Flamingo meadow at Cologne Zoo in winter

The living conditions that Cologne Zoo offers are the reason why a number of wild animals regularly come here. In addition to mallards on the duck ponds, the most conspicuous animals are a large wild population of gray herons , which now live in a colony on the top of the old trees on the zoo grounds. Visitors have the opportunity to watch the spectacular landing maneuvers on the treetops and the rearing of gray herons from close quarters.

Carrion crows are also regular guests in the zoo, especially in bear enclosures and in the raccoon enclosure for the animals to be fed. Carrion crows also attack the brood of flamingos and ducks, so that rearing has become much more difficult here.

To chase away the black-headed gulls , a special cable car was installed on which a dummy bird of prey could be moved along the duck pond. However, this had no effect.

Foxes that live free in the zoo are responsible for the death of the extremely rare female saiga in 2006.

The greenhouse jumping spider ( Hasarius adansoni ) has settled in the aquarium and can be observed, for example, in the hissing cockroach ( Gromphadorhina portentosa ).

Incidents

• On November 10, 1975, three jaguars escaped from their enclosure. A keeper was attacked, whereupon the animal was shot by the police and the other two were captured.
• On October 10, 1985, the chimpanzee Petermann broke out of his enclosure and seriously injured the then director Gunther Nogge. The animal was then shot by the police.
• In August 1988 a grizzly escaped from its enclosure. After he uprooted a tree and used it to cross an otherwise insurmountable moat, he was shot by a carer.
• In the 1980s one man was killed by a lion and another seriously injured by a tiger . Both men had climbed over barriers.
• On August 25, 2012, the Altai Siberian tiger attacked his carer and fatally injured her. The animal had entered a covered part of its enclosure through a security lock that was left open, which the zookeeper was cleaning. The tomcat was shot with a rifle by director Theo Pagel to allow rescue workers access to the nurse.

deals

shares

A specially designed registered share in the Cologne Zoo can be purchased for 750 euros.

Events

Summer night in the Zoo and Flora, 2007

• From 1997 to 2009, the summer night in the Zoo and Flora took place on the second Saturday in August with around 15,000 visitors. The zoo was lit with spotlights and there were stage programs. In 2010, the Long Nights in Cologne Zoo took place on all four Saturdays in August.
• In 2010 the Cologne Zoo celebrated its 150th anniversary with numerous events.
• In April 2011, the artistic implementation of the competition ART according to the Cologne Zoo - sprayed art for the Cologne Zoo took place. The Cologne Zoomauer on Riehler Straße was painted by various graffiti artists as part of a graffiti project .

Animal sponsorships

In order for the zoo to cover its costs, you can also become an animal sponsor from 50 euros. For example, you can sponsor a poison dart frog for 50 euros and sponsor an elephant for 5000 euros.

See also

• Animal Kölsch

literature

• since 1958: Magazine of the Cologne Zoo (formerly: "Friends of the Cologne Zoo"), appears four times a year (from 2014 three times a year), in 2012 with the 55th year, ISSN  0375-5290 .
• Helmut Signon: Animals in Cologne - in the zoo and museum. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1967.
• Ernst Kullmann: 120 years of the Cologne Zoo. Zoological Garden AG, Cologne 1980.
• Johann Jakob Häßlin, Gunther Nogge: The Cologne Zoo - History of the Zoo. Greven, Cologne 1985.
• Iris Benner: Stories from the Cologne Zoo. Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-89705-527-8 .
• Christiane Rath: Die Elefanten zu Köln , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03810-1 .
• Theo Pagel , Marcus Reckewitz and Wilhelm Spieß, with photographs by Rolf Schlosser: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals , JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2339-8 . (For the 150th anniversary.)
• Henriette Meynen, Theo Pagel: The Zoological Garden in Cologne , Rheinische Kunststätten series , Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz (Ed.), Issue No. 533. Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86526-073-4 . (Building and gardening history.)

swell

• Annual report 2008 of the stock corporation Zoologischer Garten Cologne (PDF)
• Annual report 2012 of the Aktiengesellschaft Zoologischer Garten Köln (PDF), published in the magazine of the Kölner Zoo, No. 1, 2013. Not available as a direct individual download from the website. Retrieved February 23, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Cologne Zoo  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Cologne Zoo
• History of the Cologne Zoo ( Memento from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Hundreds of photos about Cologne Zoo, especially its elephants

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Annual report 2019 of the public limited company Zoologischer Garten Cologne. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
2. ^ Joachim Brokmeier: The golden corner of Cologne - The amusement district in Riehl. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-571-2 , p. 7 ff.
3. ↑ Theo Pagel et al: Der Kölner Zoo, Enteistert für Tiere, Cologne 2010, p. 35 ff.
4. ^ Hiltrud Kier: Reclam's city guide, architecture and art. Cologne / Stuttgart 2008, p. 265.
5. ^ Henriette Meynen, Theo Pagel: The Zoological Garden in Cologne. In: Rheinische Kunststätten . Issue 533, Cologne 2012, p. 13.
6. ↑ Ecletical architectural style based on the Swiss log cabin style (with elements of traditional Russian residential building architecture).
7. ^ Henriette Meynen, Theo Pagel: The Zoological Garden in Cologne. In: Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 533, Cologne 2012, p. 15 ff.
8. ↑ Theo Pagel et al: Der Kölner Zoo, Enteistert für Tiere, Cologne 2010, p. 207 f.
9. ↑ Henriette Meynen, Theo Pagel: The Zoological Garden in Cologne, Rheinische Kunststätten Heft 533, Cologne 2012, p. 17 f.
10. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 131 ff.
11. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 51.
12. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 132 f.
13. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 136.
14. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 138 f.
15. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 169.
16. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 170.
17. ↑ ^{a b} Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 172.
18. ↑ The Cologne Zoo. A memorandum for expansion and redesign.
19. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 173ff.
20. ^ Henriette Meynen, Theo Pagel: The Zoological Garden in Cologne. Rheinische Kunststätten, issue 533, Cologne 2012, p. 19;
    Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 216.
21. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 173.
22. ↑ Construction cost: DM 34 million. Adjusted for inflation, more expensive than the elephant park. Theo Page et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 232.
23. ↑ 1953 to 1980 in the supervisory board of Zoo AG, since 1956 as chairman.
24. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 231ff.
25. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 175 f.
26. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 204.
27. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 206 f.
28. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 205.
29. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 142 ff.
30. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 207.
31. ↑ ^{a b} Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 209.
32. ↑ Masterplan Cologne Zoo 2020 - Enthusiastic about animals.
33. ^ Journal of the Cologne Zoo, No. 3/2013, p. 117 ff.
34. ^ Journal of the Cologne Zoo, No. 3/2013, p. 128.
35. ^ Journal of the Cologne Zoo, No. 3/2013, p. 131 f.
36. ↑ Journal of the Cologne Zoo, No. 3/2013, p. 130.
37. ^ Journal of the Cologne Zoo, No. 3/2013, p. 134.
38. ^ Journal of the Cologne Zoo, No. 3/2013, p. 134
39. ^ Journal of the Cologne Zoo, No. 3/2013, p. 135.
40. ^ Journal of the Cologne Zoo, No. 3/2013, p. 136.
41. ↑ Ben Gittleson: American widow of Holocaust survivor to give $ 22 million to German zoo ABC News, September 2, 2017, accessed September 3, 2017.
42. ↑ 150 years of wild animals on the Rhine. ullijszoosafaris.wordpress.com, accessed February 28, 2017.
43. ↑ ksta.de, accessed on March 18, 2017.
44. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 208 f.
45. ^ Theo Pagel et al .: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. Cologne 2010, p. 142 ff.
46. ↑ Cologne Zoo Seidenäffchen born. Kölner Stadtanzeiger, July 11, 2013.
47. ↑ Chumpol died of shock. ksta.de, May 3, 2012.
48. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 24, 2016 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. 
49. ↑ rundschau-online.de
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52. ↑ Annual report 2016 of the stock corporation Zoologischer Garten Cologne. (PDF) Retrieved June 2, 2020.
53. ↑ general-anzeiger-bonn.de
54. ↑ ksta.de
55. ↑ https://www.wwf.de/2020/juli/koelner-zoo-eroeffnet-neue-anlage-fuer-die-amurtiger/
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57. ↑ ksta.de
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59. ↑ koelnerzoo.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
60. ↑ www.ksta.de
61. ↑ ksta.de
62. ↑ Dreigestiern baptizes elephant cub. ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2017 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. Report on the Cologne Zoo homepage from January 31, 2017, accessed on February 3, 2017. 
63. ↑ elefanten.wikia.com
64. ↑ www.koelnerzoo.de , accessed on March 20, 2017 and March 24, 2017.
65. ↑ ksta.de , accessed on June 15, 2017.
66. ↑ ksta.de , accessed on July 1, 2017.
67. ^ The very first photos: Baby elephants born in Cologne Zoo. June 18, 2020, accessed on June 20, 2020 (German). 
68. ↑ Oliver Görtz: Only a few days old: Cologne Zoo reveals the Cologne name of the little elephant cow. Kölner Stadtanzeiger, June 26, 2020, accessed on June 27, 2020 (German). 
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70. ↑ ^{a b} Drama in the Cologne Zoo: the zookeeper apparently left the door open. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , August 25, 2012, accessed on August 26, 2012 . 
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74. ↑ whatsart.de