Frankfurt Zoo
| Frankfurt Zoo | ||
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| motto | Experience animals - preserve nature | |
| place | Bernhard-Grzimek-Allee 1 60316 Frankfurt am Main |
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| surface | 11 hectares | |
| opening | 1858 | |
| Animal species | 448 species (December 31, 2019) | |
| Individuals | approx. 4650 animals (December 31, 2019) | |
| Species focus | Endangered animal species related to the projects of the Frankfurt Zoological Society; Nocturnal animals and small mammals; Fish and reptiles (turtles, iguanas); tropical birds | |
| Visitor numbers | 824,691 (December 31, 2019) | |
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| management | Miguel Casares | |
| Sponsorship | town Frankfurt am Main | |
| Funding organizations | Frankfurt Zoological Society | |
| Member of | WAZA , EAZA , VdZ | |
 Frankfurt Zoological Garden, view of the Society House |
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| www.zoo-frankfurt.de | ||
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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 56.1 ″ N , 8 ° 42 ′ 11.3 ″ E
The Frankfurt Zoo (at times also Frankfurt Zoological Garden ) was opened in Frankfurt am Main in 1858 and is the second oldest zoo in Germany after the Berlin Zoological Garden .
location
The Frankfurt Zoo is located on the eastern edge of the city center, in a straight extension of the main shopping street Zeil , at the corner of Alfred-Brehm-Platz in the Ostend district . In Bernhard-Grzimek-Allee (in the west of the zoo) you will find the society house, the main entrance and the underground station Zoo . There the zoo is connected to the local public transport network by the lines U6 and U7 of the Frankfurt underground and tram line 14 .
The open-air site is limited to the north by Thüringer Straße - to the east by Waldschmidtstraße and Rhönstraße , at the intersection of which there is an exit near Frankfurter Alleenring . In the south, the streets Am Tiergarten and Bernhard-Grzimek-Allee form the border.
history
founding
The Frankfurt Zoo was created at the instigation of a citizens' initiative . For this purpose, the Frankfurt Zoological Society first leased the Leer'schen Garten in the Westend , located directly on Bockenheimer Landstrasse and west of today's Unterlindau street. When the approval of the local police authority was finally obtained, with which "the keeping of wild animals in suitable containers" was permitted, the first exotic animals were presented on August 8, 1858, but initially only herbivores were permitted.
move
The inner city location and the resulting lack of space prompted the founding company to move to the Pfingstweide , which was then outside the city , a former parade ground on which Napoleon I had already accepted the troop parade in 1813. The move took place on March 29, 1874, and the zoo society house was built in 1875/76 . In the following years a predator house, the monkey house, the antelope house , the bear enclosures and a large aquarium were built. The zoo was also popular with painters and was visited by the impressionists Paul Klimsch and Max Slevogt . The zoo responded to artistic interest by setting up ateliers for Bruno Schäfer , Carl Wagner , Gertrud Winter and Paul Klimsch in the farm yard.
In 1915, the city of Frankfurt took over the zoo after the animal population threatened to die due to insufficient care and food shortages due to the First World War .
Wartime
In the time of National Socialism , the elephant house, the seal enclosure and the ape house were built in addition to gardens. During the Second World War, air raids on Frankfurt am Main in March 1944 hit the zoo with 27 aircraft bombs , which destroyed almost all buildings. Many animals died or roamed free. Almost all of the enclosures and the community center were burned out. All aquarium and terrarium animals, all big cats and about 90 percent of all other animals were dead. On March 24, 1945, Nazi Gauleiter Jakob Sprenger ordered the total eviction of Frankfurt. The responsible municipal bailiff Fritz Acker refused the ordered killing of the few surviving animals. With the support of Frankfurt farmers, he succeeded in supplying the zoo with food for the time being.
reopening
One day after the 3rd US Army marched in on March 29, 1945, the city commander of the American military government, Lt. Colonel Howard D. Criswell, the editor Wilhelm Hollbach as incumbent mayor with the reconstruction of the city administration. Initially, the priority was to restore the destroyed urban infrastructure and to supply the population with food and housing. The zoo in the densely populated, largely destroyed Ostend should therefore be finally abandoned and relocated to the outskirts, in accordance with a plan dating back to the 1920s. Hollbach's personal assistant, Bernhard Grzimek , was appointed director of the zoo with effect from May 1, 1945. He opposed the announced closure, had the bomb craters in the zoo filled in on a private initiative and some buildings were provisionally repaired. At the same time he had the zoo in the north-east extended by a rubble area up to the Untere Atzemer and the Waldschmidtstrasse; the old Fasanenstrasse disappeared through the expansion. Finally, he publicly announced the reopening of the zoo on July 1, 1945.
The city administration gave Grzimek permission to reopen the zoo, but without any subsidies from city funds. As a new source of income, a permanent amusement center with all kinds of showmen, carousels and roller coaster was opened on the site of the destroyed zoo. Dance events, children's parties and summer night balls, fashion shows, ice revues and circus events brought money to the empty coffers. Grzimek was criticized by other German zoo directors because this approach was not worthy of a zoo director. From 1946 to 1950, Grzimek's scientific assistant was the future director of the Nuremberg Zoo, Alfred Seitz .
New systems since 1950
The Frankfurt Zoological Society , which was re-established in 1950 by Bernhard Grzimek, organized raffles and fundraising campaigns and donated the proceeds, which reached millions, to the reconstruction. New buildings were added after the Second World War from the 1950s (some for the first time in Germany):
- 1953: giraffe house ;
- 1957: Exotarium (made up of exotic and aquarium ) with the first polar system for penguins (gentoo penguins ), which has been inhabited by crocodiles since 2019 ;
- 1959/62: monkey enclosures ;
- 1961: Faust bird halls and ostrich house ;
- 1963: bird bushes (formerly: pheasantry);
- 1966/70: Ape house with huge panes of glass and largely dispensing with bars (demolished 2006);
- 1978: Grzimek house (also day-night or 24-hour house) for small mammals with nocturnal department , enables nocturnal animals to be observed ;
- 1993: Enclosure for Amur leopards on the site of today's bonobo enclosure (demolished in 2006);
- 1999: "Forest clearing" for helmet cassowaries at the ostrich house (including the former nutria plant);
- 2000: maned wolf -Pampa at the site of the former "rotunda" (since 2019 part of the Max Schmidt system) and "Owl Taiga" to the fist Bird halls;
- 2001/05: South Asia cat jungle with near-natural predator facilities;
- 2002: Seal cliffs : two separate pools for seals and pygmy fur ; in a grotto the seals can be observed through large underwater windows;
- 2004: Grzimek camp and dwarf otter outdoor enclosure at the Grzimek house ;
- 2005: second okapi enclosure at the location of the wolf enclosure next to the giraffe house;
- 2007: barrier-free petting zoo with goats ;
- 2008: Borgori forest (made up of bonobo , orangutan and gorilla ), the new ape house , in which other tropical animal species are shown. In addition, the gibbon house on the large pond was completed with a connection to a natural climbing island.
- 2011: Meerkat outdoor enclosure with glass house;
- 2013: Building complex with a new main entrance, zoo shop and “Ukumari Land” .: “Ukumari Land” is a three-part system for spectacled bears and other South American mammals (Ukumari is the Quechua word for bear);
- 2018: Outdoor area for the golden lion tamarins at the Grzimek house .
- 2019: outdoor enclosure for Humboldt penguins ; In the future, 60 to 80 penguins should be accommodated here.
- 2020: Beehive on the orchard behind the monkey enclosures
The redesign of the outdoor area of the Asiatic Lions , carried out by the ice hockey team Löwen Frankfurt ("Lions for Lions") and the KfW Foundation. are being supported. Construction is scheduled to start in spring 2021
In 2019, the concept study for the new ZOOKUNFT 2030+ master plan was presented and the renovation of the terrarium began. According to the new plan, further expansion steps are to be an improved zoo infrastructure (including restoration), a European marshland and two large biotophalls with outdoor enclosures: one for animals from South American floodplain forests, the other with a sequence of different African habitats.
Outdoor zoo
In the 1970s the plan to relocate the zoo to the outskirts was taken up again. A start was made in 1974 when bison , storks and deer were moved to the Niddatal. A plan for the complete move to Niederursel had already been drawn up. New urban planning, including for the Federal Garden Show in 1989 in what is now Niddapark , and the development of the Niederurseler slope for the new Frankfurt-Riedberg district and the Riedberg campus , required redesign and prevented the zoo from moving. The zoo management drew the consequences and, as it was committed to animal welfare , was no longer able to accommodate numerous animal species. There have been no elephants in the Frankfurt Zoo since the mid-1980s . The plan for a new landscape zoo on the Niederurseler Hang was not pursued after some preliminary planning work, and the considerations for a zoo branch in the immediate vicinity of the A5 motorway, on the so-called Geiersberg, have not yet been substantiated.
Animal enclosures and other buildings
Ukumari land
Opened in 2013 instead of the bear enclosures from the Grzimek era, South American mammals are shown here. Even before you even pass the cash register, you can look into a lush winter garden, the indoor enclosure for black howler monkeys and tufted monkeys . They also use the first open-air enclosure in Ukumari Land and share it with breeding giant anteaters . Two other outdoor enclosures are used by spectacled bears that are also breeding and are socialized with forest dogs on one enclosure . The indoor enclosures for the bears and dogs, like those for the anteaters, are behind a high artificial rock wall; it hides a two-story building which also houses breeding and intermediate enclosures for other animal species.
Cat jungle
In place of the old predator gallery, a facility for four species of predatory mammals was built, most of them from South Asia. The fossas are an exception . The largest species of predator in Madagascar lives in an enclosure originally designed for clouded leopards, with a spectacular, large artificial tree that, in combination with real branches and plants, offers the animals many climbing opportunities. Furthermore, representatives of the two largest cat species are contrasted with one of the smallest cat species in a didactically effective way: Asiatic lions , Sumatran tigers and Ceylon rust cats . Part of the large pond has been integrated into the tiger outdoor facility as a swimming pool for the cats. Various turtles and native freshwater fish also live here. The last remnant of the old predator gallery, the lion-outdoor enclosure created under Grzimek, is also to be fundamentally modernized from 2021.
Big pond
A pair of Northern white-cheeked gibbons live in a glass winter garden on the bank of the pond . You can use a rope bridge to go to small islands with natural trees and shrubs. The pond's water fowl population has been dismantled in recent years; it now serves as a biotope for Canada , Nile and gray geese , mallards , gray herons , moorhens and many other water birds that live freely in the Frankfurt city area. European pond turtles and native freshwater fish also live here .
Grzimek house
The Grzimek House was built in 1978 for small mammals which are active during the day and at night. Today's population includes animal species that are rarely shown in European zoos and threatened in the wild, such as finger animals , aardvark , gray slender lory , proboscis and Komodo dragons .
Exotarium
The two-storey Exotarium is entered through a hall from the 1950s, the hall of the climatic landscapes . On its left side, penguins lived in a coolable facility until 2019. Since the opening of the new penguin enclosure in May 2019, this has been slightly redesigned and used as the domicile of the Australian crocodiles - as long as the reptile department on the upper floor is being renovated. On the opposite side is a tropical river bank with fish from South America. These include breeding peacock stingrays , South American lungfish , black bones and numerous cichlids and tetras. Turtles, birds and other small animals complete the stock on land. In the adjoining aquarium hall , the marine animals are housed on the left side and in a small central building. Epaulette sharks , tube eels , pine stonefish and frogfish as well as numerous species from the Mediterranean live in 13 aquariums . There is also a large aquarium in which countless copper anemones grow - as a shelter for black fin anemonefish and orange ring fish , which live in symbiosis with the anemones. Finally, various freshwater animals live in the eight large aquariums on the forehead and right side, including Australian lungfish , Florida fish , pirayas and African cichlids. In addition to numerous European small fish, there are also great pond clams , common toads and, on land, yellow wagtails in the "mountain stream" .
Most of the reptiles and amphibians in the Frankfurt Zoo are located on the upper floor of the house . The focus of the portfolio is on turtles and iguanas, among Schnabelbrust- and alligator snapping turtle , breeding pig-nosed turtles , blue rock iguanas, McDougall spiny lizards , rhinoceros iguanas and crown basilisk . Other types are Night lizards , Lidblasenfrösche and central Australian pythons ; insects and arachnids are also housed here. Also worth mentioning is the breeding and rearing station, in which young animals of various species can be seen all year round. Some reptiles and amphibians move freely in the tropical planted hall (including frontal lobe basilisks and various geckos). Due to renovation work, the reptile department has been closed since 2019, only the large paludarium for North American turtles at the beginning can be visited. The terrarium can be reached via a large staircase from the aquarium hall. On both sides there are 16 aquariums for small freshwater species, including large Asian river needles, brightly colored figs , the weakly electric elephantnose fish (with current detector) or the highly endangered bandula barbel.
Ibex
A breeding group of West Caucasian Ibex is housed at the exit of the Exotarium . White-tailed porcupines also live here as another species that is also found in the Caucasus.
Children's zoo and African savannah
The children's zoo set up under Bernhard Grzimek can only be seen in remnants today, as it had to give way for the most part to the new building of the "Borgori Forest" ape house. Parts of the children's playground, the hedge labyrinth and the stable building of the African savannah (with the addition of a meerkat facility in 2011 ) still remember him today. Keas and breeding Goodfellow tree kangaroos live in the animal enclosures at the playground . At the kiwi station , visitors can learn a lot about what is perhaps the zoo's most interesting bird species: the northern striped kiwi . The dates on which the young birds are weighed in front of an audience are the only way to observe the nocturnal birds because they cannot get used to the conditions of a nocturnal animal house. In the area of the African savannah , wild dogs and a breeding group of Addax antelopes are housed. This part of the zoo (including bird bushes, Faust bird halls, entrance to Rhönstrasse and Altes Affenhaus) was opened up to the zoo as an extension area after the Second World War.
Bird bushes and fist birdhouses
The majority of Frankfurt's bird population is housed here (54 species in March 2020). In the bird bushes (1963), the visitor is led through five walk-in aviaries and feels there one after another in an African swamp ( hammers ), in a savannah (among other Seriemas ) in a South American gallery forest ( Scarlet Ibis , boat-billed ), at a European river bank ( avocet , bee-eater ) and in a light forest ( satyrtragopan , hoopoe , European roller ). The fist Bird halls (1961) form a multi-piece, approximately 100 meters long building complex immediately adjacent: In the jewel room glazed enclosures most diverse small bird species are beautifully decorated in 15 housed, including rice finches , Gouldians , Purpurnaschvögel , Blaukronenpapageichen and Kanarengirlitze in breeding groups, or pairs . In the adjoining main hall there are 17 large glazed aviaries, the stock of which includes breeding marabous as well as Montserrattrupiale , Tariktik hornbills , blue-eared honey-eaters and straw-necked ibises . At the end of the room, the forest flight hall invites you to observe African and Southeast Asian bird species without a grid or glass (including white-naped and pheasant pigeon , balistar and red chalk ). The walk through the bird world is concluded with the owl taiga , a free aviary for snow owls next to the exit of the forest flight hall. There is also a small pond in front of the house - once used as an outdoor enclosure for (docked) waders, it is now housed turtles and pond turtles. The name "Faust-Vogelhallen" was given to the building in May 2006 in memory of the former Frankfurt zoo director Richard Faust , a proven bird specialist who significantly shaped the conception of the house.
Entrance Rhönstrasse
The second entrance to the zoo is to give way in the foreseeable future to the new building of the "Frankfurt Conservation Center", the new domicile of the Frankfurt Zoological Society.
Monkey plants
The monkey enclosures (1962) still show what advanced monkey enclosures looked like after the Second World War. Although in recent years many enclosures have been merged and significantly improved using natural materials, tiles and remnants of stainless steel climbing frames can still be seen. The house consists of three parts: in the upper wing there are mantled baboons , brown spider monkeys and yellow-breasted capuchins ; the spider monkeys have a beautiful, naturally planted island as an open-air enclosure, the baboons a rocky hill (both completed in 1959). This is followed by a dark corridor that was the zoo's "nocturnal animal research department" in the 1960s. Today reptiles and short-eared elephants live here . Ring-tailed lemurs and other yellow-breasted capuchins are housed in the lower wing . Relics from the Grzimek era are the barred mirror in which humans can recognize themselves as "the most dangerous predators", opposite the globe with a selection of endangered species and in the open the donation well. Behind the house there is a small outdoor area for small mammals and a small orchard , where the zoo's honey bees also live. Between the ape enclosures and the Faust bird halls, the Grzimek Camp provides information about the life and work of the former Frankfurt zoo director Bernhard Grzimek . A duplicate of the plane Grzimek used to explore herds of animals in the Serengeti is mounted on the roof of the ape enclosure.
Borgori forest
One of the highlights of the Frankfurt Zoo is the ape house, which is home to breeding groups of western lowland gorillas, bonobos and Sumatran orangutans. The orangutans are socialized with binturongs and the gorillas with hussar monkeys , and there is also an aviary for African birds ( fishing turaco , royal gloss star ) in the house. The building is designed as a walk-in, lush tropical hall with glazed views of the monkey enclosure. The indoor gorilla enclosure is built in a ring shape; Artificial rock caves are built in in two places, through which visitors can get to the center of the ring, while the gorillas can switch from one half of the enclosure to the other on "bridges" over the caves.
Rhinoceros and hippopotamus
One of the oldest buildings in the Frankfurt Zoo is the former elephant house, its foundation walls are over 100 years old. Currently it is still used as a "senior home" for a hippopotamus and the last South-Central African black rhinoceros in Europe.
Birds of prey, ostrich house, flamingos, bird meadow
The foundation walls of the birds of prey gallery are also over 100 years old . After the number of bird of prey species was greatly reduced and earlier small aviaries were merged into larger ones, vultures can currently be seen here, but also a breeding pair of jugglers . Opposite is the thatched-roof ostrich house (1961) built under Grzimek . Here too, enclosures have been merged in recent years. Today it is home to yellow-bridged duikers as well as breeding cassowaries and young cranes . Red-crowned cranes and muntjacs can be seen on the bird meadow opposite the cassowary complex . Across from the Ducker facility is a group of over 20 Chilean flamingos .
Ungulates
As you walk through the oldest part of the Frankfurt Zoo, you will pass various ungulate enclosures: In the area of the giraffe house, reticulated giraffes and okapis , but also various smaller mammals ( fennecs , Kirk-Dikdik , mice) are housed . This is followed by the antelope house with breeding bongos and Mhorr gazelles , the enclosure for Grevy's zebras , the Max Schmidt facility for South American animals named after a former Frankfurt zoo director ( vicuna , mara , capybara , rhea ), the petting zoo with West African dwarf goats and the camel house with trampoline animals and alpacas .
Seal cliffs and penguins
Seals, South African fur seals and Humboldt penguins can be observed above and below water in a spacious rocky landscape.
Zoo Society House
The zoo society house was built in 1875/76 by the architects Josef Durm , Adam Friedrich Kaysser and Otto Lindheimers . This representative building of late classicism with renaissance echoes also forms the urban development end of the Wilhelminian-era street from the Hauptbahnhof - Kaiserstraße - Hauptwache - Zeil and is a striking landmark of Frankfurt's Ostend to the present day. It houses the Fritz Rémond Theater , a restaurant and several party and conference rooms, as well as the zoo administration and the Frankfurt Zoological Society. Since a children's and youth theater is to be accommodated in the building in the medium term, the Zoological Society is planning to move to the planned "Conservation Center" at the location of the Rhönstrasse entrance.
Species protection and conservation diversity
The zoo's motto “Experience animals - preserve nature” is reflected on the one hand in the selection of the rare species on display that are either endangered or threatened with extinction, such as the red-crowned crane , the Asian lion or the bearded vulture, which is threatened in Europe .
The Frankfurt Zoo is not only actively involved in species protection in the countries of threatened animals through the Frankfurt Zoological Society (ZGF). Other protection programs for a total of seven animal species include the rust cat , maned wolf and western lowland gorilla, for which the zoo maintains the International Stud Book (ISB). Around 50 species are kept under the European Endangered Species Program (EEP). The EEPs for rhinoceros iguana , sun rail , Socorrotaube , gray slimlori and rust cat are controlled by employees of the Frankfurt Zoo.
European bird species still live in the zoo. The blue peacock , gray herons , ducks and geese roam freely in the zoological garden.
Educational work
The zoo has had a scientifically and pedagogically trained consultant since 1960. The first zoo pedagogue was Rosl Kirchshofer . Materials for biology lessons appear at irregular intervals. Thematic tours can also be booked. The former Hessian Prime Minister Georg-August Zinn described the Frankfurt Zoo as "Hesse's largest school".
Directors
- David Friedrich Weinland (Scientific Director, 1858–1863)
- Franz Leven (Executive Director, 1858–1859)
- Max Schmidt (Executive Director, 1859–1863, Director 1864–1885)
- Ludwig Wunderlich (Scientific Director, 1885–1888)
- Victor Goering (Executive Director, 1885–1913)
- Wilhelm Haacke (Scientific Director, 1888–1893)
- Adalbert Seitz (Scientific Director, 1893–1908)
- Kurt Priemel (Scientific Director, 1908–1913, Director 1913–1938)
- Georg Steinbacher (1938–1945)
- Bernhard Grzimek (1945–1974)
- Richard Faust (1974-1993)
- Christoph Scherpner (Managing Director, 1993–1994)
- Christian R. Schmidt (1994-2008)
- Manfred Niekisch (2008-2017)
- Miguel Casares (since February 1, 2018)
Others
- In 1940, the fountain erected in front of the zoo in 1894 was melted down as a " metal donation from the German people " for war purposes.
- In 1972, the then Lord Mayor of Frankfurt, Rudi Arndt , named the 14th hippopotamus born in the zoo with the name Dynamite . He himself was nicknamed Dynamit-Rudi - because of his attitude towards the reconstruction of the Alte Oper Frankfurt .
- The gorilla man Matze was considered the oldest breeding gorilla in the world. He came to the zoo in 1969 and died there in 2008 at the estimated age of 51. Matze and his four wives fathered eighteen children.
- Frankfurt Zoo is a member of BioFrankfurt , the network for biodiversity.
- Giraffe, Meerkat & Co. , an ARD documentary soap, is recorded in the Frankfurt Zoo and the Opel Zoo .
- An attack on the Chilean flamingos in the nights from March 20 to 23, 2014, which was initially suspected , could be assigned to a fox in retrospect. Bite marks clearly showed that this was not the work of animal abusers. In 2007 strangers had killed four flamingos.
See also
Web links
- Website of the Frankfurt Zoo
- The zoo on the website of the City of Frankfurt accessed on Feb. 24, 2020
- Podcast: How Bernhard Grzimek saved the Frankfurt Zoo. ( Memento of December 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Published by hr-info on April 3, 2015, accessed on December 4, 2018, audio length: 24:11 minutes
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Figures and data 2019 - the zoo takes stock. Press release of the Frankfurt Zoological Garden from January 27, 2020.
- ↑ See Peter Rautmann: In the realm of animals and people. A journey through the art of the 18th to the 20th century. In: Thomas Andratschke, Alexandra Eichler (Hrsg.): In the realm of the animals. Forays through art and nature. Catalog for the exhibition in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2012, pp. 22–43. Online ( memento of July 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (excerpt).
- ^ Sigrun Paas, Lower Saxony State Gallery Hannover: Max Slevogt: Paintings 1889–1931. Page 32, 1999.
- ↑ Heike Drummer, Jutta Zwilling: The liberation of Frankfurt by the Americans. In: Frankfurt 1933-1945. Institute for Urban History , November 3, 2015, accessed on August 8, 2018 .
- ↑ The rescue. In: Frankfurt Zoo website. City of Frankfurt am Main, accessed on August 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Zoo Frankfurter Rundschau: Zoo: Through the new entrance hall straight into «Ukumari-Land» ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), July 3, 2013
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau June 23, 2017: Frankfurter Zoo shows anteaters again , accessed on August 14, 2017
- ↑ ¡Bienvenidos! Four South American forest dogs have moved to Ukumari country - Frankfurt Zoo. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
- ↑ The summer can come! A new outdoor area for the golden lion tamarins - Frankfurt Zoo. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Figures and data for 2019 - the zoo takes stock. Frankfurt Zoological Garden, January 27, 2020, accessed December 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Frankfurt Zoo: Welcome to “Ukumari-Land” - Frankfurt Zoo opens the new facility for spectacled bears and howler monkeys , July 3, 2013
- ↑ Animal News - April 11, 2020. Frankfurt am Main Zoological Garden, April 11, 2020, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Lions for lions
- ↑ Figures and data for 2019 - the zoo takes stock. Frankfurt Zoological Garden, January 27, 2020, accessed December 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Figures and data for 2019 - the zoo takes stock. Frankfurt Zoological Garden, January 27, 2020, accessed December 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Figures and data for 2019 - the zoo takes stock. Frankfurt Zoological Garden, January 27, 2020, accessed December 30, 2018 .
- ^ Frankfurt Zoo: breeding programs
- ↑ Miguel Casares becomes the new zoo director in Frankfurt
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↑ Katharina Iskandar: Frankfurt Zoo: 15 flamingos brutally killed . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 23, 2014, accessed on October 18, 2016.
Chilean flamingos killed at Fuchs Zoo . Communication from Frankfurt Zoo, March 25, 2014, accessed on October 18, 2016.