Leipzig Zoo
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| Full name | Leipzig Zoological Garden | |
| motto | On the trail of nature | |
| place | Pfaffendorfer Strasse 29 04105 Leipzig |
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| surface | 26.3 hectares | |
| opening | June 9, 1878 | |
| Animal species | 579 species (as of Jan. 1, 2019) |
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| Individuals | approx. 8077 animals (including aquarium, as of Jan. 1, 2019) |
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| Visitor numbers | 1,723,180 (2018) | |
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| management | Jörg Junhold (managing director and zoological director) | |
| Sponsorship | Zoo Leipzig GmbH | |
| Funding organizations | The Friends and Sponsors of the Leipzig Zoological Garden e. V. | |
| Member of | WAZA , EAZA , VdZ | |
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| www.zoo-leipzig.de | ||
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 56 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 9 ″ E
The Leipzig Zoo is a 26 hectare (including 2.1 hectares of water) large, park-like zoological garden on the Rosental , northwest of downtown Leipzig . It is one of the most biodiverse zoos in Europe. Since 2000 the zoo has been extensively rebuilt and expanded under the project name “Zoo of the Future”. A renovation is to take place in individual subject areas by 2022. According to the Sheridan Zoo Ranking by the Briton Anthony Sheridan, Leipzig Zoo has been number two among the best zoos in Europe (after Schönbrunn Zoo ) and number one in Germany for several years .
history
Established under Ernst Pinkert
The Leipzig Zoo was founded on June 9, 1878 by the Leipzig innkeeper Ernst Pinkert (1844–1909) as a private zoological garden on the Ratsgut Pfaffendorf (the 23rd zoo in Europe).
Pinkert had been the owner of the Zum Pfaffendorfer Hof restaurant since 1873 and had been exhibiting exotic animals as a public attraction since 1876 with his partner, the Hamburg animal dealer Carl Hagenbeck . Construction of the old predator house, which existed until the 1990s, also began in this year. A Borneo orangutan was shown to the public for the first time in Germany in the still young Leipzig Zoo. In 1883 the zoo area was expanded to three hectares.
From the time the zoo was founded until 1931, around 40 Völkerschauen were held on the grounds of the Leipzig Zoological Garden . Pinkert set up a “people's meadow” between the predator house and the seal pool. Later he had a “Völkerbühne” set up next to it with a jungle backdrop. The exhibition of people from foreign peoples, including Kalmyks, Kyrgyz and Swahili, became an integral part of the zoo. In 1894 Pinkert developed the “Living Pictures” show. A group of Swahili recreated well-known paintings, including the "Mohren wash" by Carl Joseph Begas . In 1897 the Leipzig Zoo exhibited naked Samoan women, of which the then 14-year-old Joachim Ringelnatz was also impressed.
On January 1, 1899, the private company was converted into the stock corporation Zoologischer Garten zu Leipzig . The new money made it possible to build the New Predator House, the Monkey House and the Administration Building in 1900/01.
Ernst Pinkert died on April 28, 1909. His successor was the Westphalian Johannes Gebbing, who also brought new species to the Leipzig Zoo with the construction of the aquarium (1910) and the addition of the terrarium (1913).
Development in the 20th century
The First World War brought the zoo into distress. Many employees, including zoo director Johannes Gebbing, were called up for military service. Meat, grain and bread were rationed and large numbers of animals died of malnutrition or were fed to starving urban populations. The result was a large number of orphaned enclosures and a dramatic drop in visitor numbers; almost all areas were marked by lack. In the last two years of the war, the restaurant became a barracks and the concert garden became a parade ground, and many buildings continued to deteriorate. In November 1918 the corporation was in debt with 770,000 marks. On January 1, 1920, the zoological garden was subordinated to the property authority of the city of Leipzig in order to quickly repair at least the most essential items.
The lending of animals to film productions in which even the director of the zoo played a role, so that the animals could trust someone, turned out to be a new source of income. Between 1920 and 1935 the area was expanded to 12.5 hectares. The architect Carl James Bühring, who worked as a volunteer for the zoo from 1924 after his work as Leipzig city planning officer, added two large axes to the path system and built numerous buildings that are still typical of the Leipzig zoo using the clinker construction method that is typical for him. Among other things, the pachyderm house (1926) and the bear castle (1929) as well as terrace-like outdoor facilities for the big cats of the new predator house were built. This was followed in 1934 by the rhesus and baboon enclosure with the penguin enclosure on the back. The animal kindergarten has existed since 1935.
On May 20, 1926, the planetarium built by Hubert Ritter was opened; The building on the corner of Pfaffendorfer Strasse and Kickerlingsberg , which is located on the grounds of the zoo but is accessible from the outside, was not rebuilt after its destruction in World War II .
The zoological garden, which was closed due to the war, was reopened on May 6, 1945 and the area was enlarged to 16 hectares in 1947.
In 1973, the Leipzig Zoological Garden was given responsibility for the International Tiger Studbook, which has been published annually since 1976 and is one of the most comprehensive for an endangered species. With 342 Amurtigern births in 50 years, Leipzig Zoo is the most successful breeder.
In 1976, the zoo showcase , consisting of three large outdoor areas for cattle, camel-like and South American animals, was completed, which, as a wide ditch system, forms a wall-free demarcation and at the same time seamlessly integrated into the landscape of the neighboring Rosental. The zoo now covered 22.5 hectares.
On June 23, 1982 the ape house was opened, which was demolished in 1999 as part of the construction work for Pongoland. In 1986 the zoo set up the International Stud Book for the Anoas , which has since been kept by the zoo's scientific staff.
In 1991, the zoo received the status of an urban Directed operation . Since January 1, 1995, it has been self-employed in the Culture Department of the City of Leipzig, in 2000 it was converted into a GmbH , of which the City of Leipzig is the partner with 100% of the shares .
"Zoo of the future" since 2000
In 1998, a planning team from the zoo began work on a new overall concept for the zoo, which on June 14, 2000 led to a unanimous city council resolution for the “Zoo of the Future” concept. This concept envisages redesigning the zoo into a nature adventure park with six themed areas ( Africa , Asia , South America , Founder's Garden , Pongoland , Gondwanaland ). Its implementation began with the establishment of Zoo Leipzig GmbH on August 1, 2000.
Since 2001 there have been several new openings of plants in this context.
- The Makasi Simba lion savannah was opened to the public on February 8th and the Pongoland ape enclosure on April 2nd, 2001, in the presence of the President of the Max Planck Society , which had provided the bulk of the financing for the major project. The new meerkat facility opposite the Rosental outdoor facilities was opened in autumn .
- The New Predator House from 1902, home of the world-famous Leipzig lion breed, from which over 2,300 lions emerged , was reopened in 2002, 100 years after its opening, as the Arche discovery house . In addition, the sloth bear gorge was inaugurated in 2002 on the site of the former gibbon island in the perennial garden.
- The documentary soap Elefant, Tiger & Co. first went on air on April 1, 2003. It tells the small and big stories of the zoo away from the spectator paths.
- In 2003, the Amur tigers moved from the old “tiger farm” to their newly opened facility, the Tiger Taiga , at the Großer Hirschhaus.
- On April 2, 2004, the opening of the Kiwara savannah with an attached spotted hyena system took place on the site of the former Rosental open-air system.
- In 2005, the small flight cage along the zoo axis was expanded as an Asian free-flight aviary and refurbished in accordance with historical monuments. After a short construction period, the okapi facility was built in the alluvial forest , and a second facility was added in 2008.
- On April 1, 2006, the elephant temple Ganesha Mandir was opened after several years of construction. In addition, the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) held its 2006 annual conference at Leipzig Zoo.
- In 2007 the second construction phase on the way to the “Zoo of the Future” began. It includes the construction of the giant tropical hall Gondwanaland , which was opened on July 1, 2011.
- In 2011, zoo director Dr. Jörg Junhold is the third German zoo director ever to assume the office of President of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA).
In 2012, a revised master plan with an investment volume of 56.5 million euros was published, which regulates the renovation of the zoo by 2022. Among other things, it provides for the following projects in five stages:
- New enclosures for Amur leopards ; new exit area with walkable flamingo aviary (2012–2014).
- Conversion of the bear castle into a playground with a café; Rhino new plant as part of the Kiwara Savannah for the East African black rhino , South African cheetahs and patas monkey ; Conversion of the animal monkey house for koalas ; Well construction on the aquarium forecourt (2013–2016).
- "Himalaya" high mountain complex for snow leopards , birds of prey and small pandas , restoration of the large flight cage as part of this complex; South America area with enclosures for anteaters , maned wolves , vicuñas , coatis etc. (2015–2018).
- Walkable penguin enclosure and seal enclosure with wave system, underwater tunnel with 360 ° view; Refurbishment of the aquarium (2018–2020).
- Asian islands with Burma deer , Siberian musk deer , bearded monkeys and red dogs ; new aviaries for cranes and lories ; Facility for African wild dogs next to the lion house; “Sulawesi facility” for deer boars and lowland anoas ; Okapi forest and petting kraal extensions (2020–2022).
Species protection and conservation breeding
The Leipzig Zoo has been actively involved in the breeding of endangered species for decades. As one aspect of this work, four internationals (ISB) and one European stud book (ESB) are kept in the zoo and four European conservation breeding programs (EEP) are coordinated:
- International Tiger Stud Book
- Since 1973 Peter Müller (retired zoo director) has been editing and managing the international tiger stud book, which is one of the oldest stud books and with over 9,000 registered individuals the most extensive of all. The populations of all six recent subspecies ( Amur , Sumatra , Bengal , South Chinese , Hindu Indian and Malay tigers ) are recorded as the basis for regional breeding programs. The studbook has been published annually since 1976.
- International Anoa Breeding Book and Anoa-EEP
- In 1986 the international stud book for the lowland anoa was set up and was led from the beginning by senior curator Gerd Nötzold, who also coordinates the European conservation breeding program for this smallest wild cattle species.
- International Maned Wolf Studbook and Maned Wolf EEP
- Since 2009, curator Ruben Holland has been entrusted with the management of the international stud book for the maned wolf and the coordination of the European conservation breeding programs for the maned wolf.
- International Sumatran Rhinoceros Stud Book
- Since 2012 the zoo has been coordinating global breeding efforts to preserve the endangered Sumatran rhinoceros .
- European stud book for the crocodile
- In 2004, curator Fabian Schmidt took over the management of the European Stud Book (ESB) for stump crocodiles - a tribute to regular breeding successes of this endangered crocodile species from the forests of Africa.
- European conservation breeding program for the white-naped crane
- Curator Ruben Holland has been coordinating the conservation breeding program for this species since 2009. Since 1996, 32 chicks have hatched in Leipzig Zoo.
- European conservation breeding program for the monkeys
- In 2013, curator Fabian Schmidt was also given responsibility for coordinating the breeding program (EEP) for the owl-capped monkey . With 22 successfully reared young animals since 1974, the Leipzig Zoo is the world's most successful breeder of this species.
- At the moment, breeding programs for the following species are being set up by zoo employees:
- Transvaal lion (Panthera leo krugeri)
- Spotted pouch marten
- Darwin nose frogs
For almost 20 years, the Leipzig Zoo has been intensively involved in in-situ species protection and reintroduction programs.
Since 1993 the zoo has been doing significant development and support work in the Endangered Primate Rescue Center (EPRC) operated by the Frankfurt Zoological Society until 2012 in the Cuc-Phuong National Park in Vietnam. Zookeepers who are regularly assigned to the zoo for long periods of time train local colleagues and take care of the structural expansion and maintenance of the center. The annual financial support of around 10,000 euros made it possible, among other things, to set up several ranger stations for permanent protection of the unique fauna. In 2012, the Leipzig Zoo took over the complete patronage of the station from the Frankfurt Zoological Society.
As part of the construction of the “Pongoland” great ape enclosure, Leipzig Zoo joined the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation (WCF) - a foundation for the protection of wild chimpanzees. An annual financial contribution enables research into and protection of West African chimpanzees in the Taï National Park in southwestern Ivory Coast. These in-situ protective measures supplement the behavioral research carried out by the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center .
The European zoo umbrella organization, the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria , initiates annual campaigns to protect endangered animal species and habitats. In order to make zoo visitors aware of these campaigns, to inform them about the protection of endangered species, to raise awareness of the sustainable use of resources and to collect donations for the projects, large information boards were distributed across the zoo and a species protection container was set up opposite the rhino enclosure . Over the past ten years, several hundred thousand euros have been raised in donations and donated to the foundation for various projects (Bushmeat campaign 2001, tiger campaign “21st Century Tiger” 2003/2004, rhino campaign “Save the Rhinos” 2006/2007, amphibian campaign “Year of the Frog 2008 / 2009 "and the Biodiversity Campaign 2010/2011).
Since 2005, the zoo has been supporting another project that is dedicated to the research, sustainable protection and breeding of the highly endangered Darwin's nose frog (Rhinoderma darwinii). This species is common in South America on the west side of the Andes in a temperate, humid and cold climate. In connection with the amphibious campaign “Year of the Frog 2008/2009”, the zoo, together with the Zoological Society for Species and Population Protection, the specialist journal “Reptilia” and the University in Concepcion ( Chile ) set up a breeding and research station on their premises. This is where the nose frogs are kept and are to be bred, and further research is carried out from here. The first results give reason for hope. By the beginning of 2013, over 130 nosed frogs had been bred. Therefore, contacts to other projects should now be established in order to win further owners for the breeding and to put the project on a broad basis.
Even before the opening of the Gondwanaland tropical hall, the zoo began looking for a species protection project that could be linked to the tropical world in terms of content and will be presented there. The choice fell on a breeding station on the island of Borneo. This station is committed to the preservation of the Sabah rhinoceros, a subspecies of the Sumatran rhinoceros that only occurs in the state of Sabah (Malaysia). Spread over two protected areas, only about 30 to 50 animals live. The government of the state has recognized the protection of the animal as an important task and has set up a breeding and research station next to the Tabin Wildlife Reserve, where the rhinos can still be found. In cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin (IZW), the zoo will be committed to improving housing conditions and, building on the extensive experience of the IZW, will create the ideal conditions for breeding this acutely threatened subspecies. The zoo will also provide the region with advice and practical help in setting up sustainable tourism.
The presentation of wild animals and their breeding, in order to introduce the visitor to the diversity of animal life on our planet and to build stable reserve populations in captivity, are among the basic tasks of every zoo. Successful breeding and good coordination enabled the wide distribution of numerous wild animal species in the European zoo landscape. In the second half of the 20th century, the realistic possibility of reintroducing animals born in zoos into their natural range was considered, thereby increasing ailing populations or reviving populations that had already died out. Model projects have been initiated in North Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Europe and Central Asia.
The Leipzig Zoo has been committed to the reintroduction of animals born or hatched in the zoo since the early 1980s. Until the beginning of the 1990s, several European wildcats were made available for reintroduction in the Bavarian Forest National Park and European eagle owls and white storks from the zoo's breeding facilities were released into the wild. Several saber antelope cows bred in Leipzig have been living in protected reserves in Morocco and Tunisia since the mid-1990s, and various Przewalski wild horse stallions in the Hungarian Hortobagy National Park. Since 1992 the zoo has been transferring its annually hatched little owls to the Borna eco station near Leipzig, which is in charge of a resettlement project in the Harz foreland. In cooperation with the University of Leipzig , a reintroduction program for crocodiles in Africa has been in planning for a few years . Another collaboration exists with the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds .
Plants and buildings
With the implementation of the “Zoo of the Future” concept, the zoo was divided into the following six themed worlds according to a plan by the architect Peter Rasbach:
Africa
"Makasi Simba" lion savannah
(Opening 2001)
Makasi Simba ( Simba = swahili for 'lion') occupies an area of around 1400 square meters, with 825 square meters available for the animals outside. The Löwensavanne, financed by donations, was opened in 2001.
In 2001 three hybrid lions, two males and one female moved into the newly built facility. Despite the long-term habituation of the males to the female on the viewing grid, one male killed the female on first contact. The males were then given to another zoo. In 2002 and 2003 the zoo received a total of 3 young Angola lions from the Lisbon Zoo. One cat died of acute leukemia in 2004. Since the remaining cat did not accept its kittens or became hot again shortly after the birth, it was finally decided to use permanent contraception. After the death of the cat, the tomcat left the zoo on August 12, 2016 in the direction of Jaderberg .
On the same evening, two young Etosha lions bred by the Basel Zoo (born May 28, 2015 in Basel) moved into the Lion House. On September 29, 2016, the two lions crossed the moat and fled their enclosure. While one cat could be pushed back into its enclosure, the second animal was shot after a failed attempt to stun and breached the barrier created by the keepers. The park was not yet open at the time of the outbreak; no one was harmed. A short time later a cat (born May 8, 2014), which is an animal of the subspecies kruegeri, was brought to Leipzig from the zoo in Peaugres, France, as a company for the animal that was left behind . The couple's first offspring appeared in winter 2019.
In the outdoor area there are heated beds for the big cats. The animals can be observed inside through a cave, in which visitors can also find Black Nile spiny mice in a display case. The house has five indoor facilities with a total of 163 m², one of which is visible to the visitor.
In the immediate vicinity of the lion savannah, an additional warm house was built in 2009 from donations, which will serve as quarters for the residents of the neighboring Australian enclosure and in winter also for the southern ground hornbill and will house African wild dogs in a few years.
Kiwara savannah
(Opened in 2004)
The Kiwara savanna ( Kiwara = swahili for 'savanna') was modeled on an African savannah landscape. The 25,000 m² facility, which opened in April 2004, forms the largest part of the Africa area in the Leipzig Zoo. Large groups of the following animal species can be observed here:
- Rothschild giraffes
- Grevy's zebras
- Saber antelopes
- White-naped bog antelopes
- Thomson gazelles
- South African blue-necked ostrich
- Lesser Flamingos
- Marabou
- Gray crowned cranes
- Helmet guinea fowl
In 2009 the animal population was expanded to include eastern white-bearded wildebeest from Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem. Since the wildebeest and the other savannah inhabitants increasingly had serious conflicts, keeping the animals was abandoned in early March 2011 when the animals were given up. As a replacement for the white-bearded wildebeest, white-naped bog antelopes arrived in the summer of 2012.
The animals are presented in the so-called zoo shop window and can therefore also be seen from the area outside the zoo.
While the stables of zebras, antelopes, gazelles, ostriches and waders are not visible, the visitor is given the opportunity to take a look into the flamingo stables through a pane of glass and to watch the giraffes up close in their spacious running hall. In the visitor room of the giraffe house, fat sand rats , Zambian small gulls and short-eared elephants are kept in small mammal enclosures .
Kiwara-Kopje
(Opening 2015)
After 14 months of construction, Kiwara-Kopje was opened on April 29, 2015. The complex contains five facilities for black rhinos with a total area of 6000 m², three of which are visible to the visitor. In addition to the rhinoceros, the enclosures are inhabited by South African cheetahs and a group of hussar monkeys
A breeding trio currently lives in the area (as of 06/2020) on an adult East African black rhinoceros bull and two adult cows, together with a young bull born in Leipzig in 2017.
The northernmost facility is directly adjacent to the existing savannah facility. Here there is the possibility of socializing the rhinos with the smaller ungulate species of the Kiwara savannah, which have access to the Kiwara Kopje. The middle enclosure serves as a mother-and-child enclosure and is inhabited exclusively by rhinos, while the third enclosure is being set up to socialize rhinos with South African cheetahs and a group of hussar monkeys .
In addition to a modern warm house with seven rhinoceros boxes, boxes for cheetahs and monkeys, a new feeding tract and two rear enclosing systems, a 200 m² facility for South African porcupines and southern mongooses was also built .
The visitor has the opportunity to observe the animals both at ground level and on a wooden walkway. A climbing park for children and numerous information boards on species and habitat protection have also been integrated.
The old pony stud, once home of the zoo's well-known Shetland pony breeding, and the baboon rock built in 1934 had to give way to the construction of the Kiwara-Kopje. The keeping of baboons in Leipzig Zoo has ended. In addition, extensive clearing work in the zoo center was necessary.
The total cost of construction was 7.3 million euros.
Hyänenkopje and meerkat enclosure
(Opened in 2004 and 2001)
Directly next to the savannah, separated only by a dry ditch, is a facility for spotted hyenas , thus creating the illusion that the hyenas are kept together with the other savannah animals. With almost 370 animals born since the start of breeding in 1901 in the Old Predator House, the Leipzig Zoo is the most successful breeder of this species worldwide.
In spring 2004, a young female from Amersfoort and a male from Gelsenkirchen moved into the new facility. The sex determination of spotted hyenas still causes certain problems. Curiously, the female from Amersfoort first traveled as a male, the male as an alleged female from the Ruhr Zoo Gelsenkirchen to Leipzig. When the potential breeding male gave birth to twins in autumn 2004, the situation cleared up to the general delight of the zoologists and keepers.
Since the resumption of spotted hyena husbandry in 2004 - after an 18-year break - 21 young animals have been born in one litter, seven twins and two triplets, 17 of which grew up healthy (as of February 2016). The second generation of spotted hyenas has been breeding in Leipzig since summer 2013.
The hyena facility was expanded to include a second outdoor facility in 2015 when the Kiwara-Kopje was opened.
Already in November 2001, before the construction of the Kiwara Savannah started, a meerkat facility was built between the new lion enclosure and the old rose valley open-air enclosures for ungulates , the second in the history of the Leipzig zoo. The first facility, built in 1998 next to the jewelry yard of the pachyderm house, had to give way to the construction work to expand the elephant facility. The current facility, measuring around 30 m², with a hidden warm house, heated artificial termite mounds and an extensive cave system, serves as accommodation for a small breeding group of agile stealthy cats and is particularly popular with younger visitors.
Okapi forest
(Opening 2005)
The okapi enclosure was built next to the Kiwara savannah in no time in 2005, as the zoo surprisingly had the option to keep an okapi bull. In October 2005 - 37 years after the death of the last Leipzig okapi - an 18-year-old bull came to Leipzig from the Wuppertal Zoo . The animal, which had arrived from its previous positions with severely disturbed feeding habits, died in December 2006 after hoof treatment.
An okapi bull, originally from the Blijdorp zoo in Rotterdam , has been living in the enclosure since March 2007 . Since the warm house is designed to accommodate two couples with offspring, the complex was expanded at the beginning of 2008 to include a second outdoor facility in the alluvial forest, which enables the animals to live in a natural wooded area with bushes, tall grass and shade. Three okapi calves have been successfully reared in the zoo since 2014.
Other plants
Asian forest enclosure, filled with white-naped cranes , red-crowned cranes , Burma-gurdy-deer and musk deer
- African petting kraal with Damara goats in the jungle village of the Pongoland (opening 2001) and in the Kiwara village additionally with Cameroon sheep (opening 2015)
- Systems for South African fur seals (opened in 1998)
Asia
Sloth Bear Canyon
(Opening 2002)
The sloth bear gorge was built in 2001/2002 on the site of the old gibbon enclosure in the perennial garden. The opening took place on May 1st, 2002. The construction time was ten months. The gorge can be found near the zoo entrance in the immediate vicinity of the aquarium . The sloth bears are socialized with rhesus monkeys on one of the three outdoor enclosures. The enclosures are spacious and designed to be close to nature. There are opportunities for observation via moats, crevices and in a cave, in which a monitor can always be seen from the mother's room. Occasionally, the rhesus monkeys can also be observed outside the enclosure, as they always find opportunities to break out of the enclosure, despite multiple measures.
The Leipzig Zoo has kept Indian sloth bears continuously since 1960. In 1963, the zoo succeeded in breeding this species for the first time in Europe and meanwhile the Leipzig Zoo is the most successful breeder of this endangered species of large bear worldwide and is already breeding in the third generation. Outside of the Leipzig Zoo, only a few offspring have been bred in the Berlin Zoological Garden in recent years. Offspring from Leipzig live in the zoos of Singapore, Berlin, Rheine, Chemnitz, Hilvarenbeek (Netherlands) and Nikolajew (Ukraine). The last offspring with zoo offspring from India, the import of which had been preceded by long-term agreements between the zoo and the Indian government, took place in December 2019,
The sloth bear canyon - consisting of a warm house designed for keeping up to ten bears (143 m² cage area) and three outdoor facilities (a total of 1275 m² usable area), two of which are visible to the visitor - is currently inhabited by five sloth bears .
Elephant enclosure and bull pen
(Opening 2002)
In preparation for the birth of the first baby elephant in the zoo after a 66-year break from breeding, the first construction phase for the “Ganesha Mandir” elephant temple was brought forward in 2001. A separate bull barn consisting of three boxes with an outdoor facility was built as an independent construction measure. The bull facility is not visible to visitors.
Ganesha Mandir Elephant Temple
(Opening 2006)
Leipzig Zoo has kept Asian elephants without interruption since 1921 . In the old house, elephant keeping without bars was practiced for the first time in zoo history. The demarcation consisted of a ditch, which, however, required the elephants to be chained. This could later be ended by installing swing ropes. In addition to Asian elephants, African steppe elephants and hippos , which had to make way for the expansion of the house in 2005, there were also tapirs , boars and pygmy hippos living in the house.
The complex of today's elephant temple Ganesha Mandir ( Ganesha = elephant-headed Hindu deity; Mandir = temple in Hinduism ) was built in the typical clinker style in 1926, but was never completed according to plan due to lack of funds. After extensive renovation, expansion and complete renovation, it was opened in 2006. The actual elephant house was completed on schedule, but a wing for rhinos provided in the original plans was dispensed with. The new facility, which consists of four separable open spaces and the house, has a total area of 7500 m². Inside there is a water basin and a walking area of 500 m² with a sandy bottom as well as several boxes at the rear. In the basement of the house, the elephants can be observed while bathing through glass panes under water. In addition, a large outdoor area was created in the form of a dilapidated temple courtyard. There is a view of three outdoor areas through two authentic Asian pagodas.
As part of the renovation work, a nocturnal animal enclosure was created in the basement of the house, which has been stocked with Formosa pangolin since 2009. The only Chinese pangolins currently living outside of Asia are kept in the zoo . On April 18, 2008, after a four-month quarantine behind the scenes of the house, a male who had come as a gift from Taipei moved into the enclosure in the basement of the elephant house, which was formerly designed for giant squirrels. On September 1, 2009, a female about 15 months old, accompanied by a carer, a curator and a veterinarian, arrived in Leipzig. After a three-month quarantine, the couple has been on view to visitors since December 2009. Despite intensive efforts, the couple, who harmonize well with each other, have so far not had any offspring. In view of the precarious location of the species in its range, triggered by the high demand for pangolin products for traditional Chinese medicine, Leipzig Zoo imported another pair from Taipei Zoo in 2016, which had been confiscated from the wildlife trade, in order to increase the chances of conservation breeding and to increase the build-up of a reserve population in zoological gardens.
The staircase between the lower and ground floor houses several aviaries with pigeon species and southern spherical armadillos. In the basement there is the possibility to compare two species from different continents, namely pangolin and armadillo, but with similar adaptation.
Currently (as of 06/2020) three bull elephants and five cows live in the Leipzig Zoo.
Tiger Taiga
(Opening 2003)
The tiger taiga ( taiga = boreal coniferous forest of Northern Europe) is the facility for Amur tigers . It consists of two outdoor facilities with a total area of around 1200 square meters and also includes the historic Great Deer House, which has been given a new use as an information point for species protection and an animal house for Chinese tree chipmunks and Eurasian harvest mice . In the non-visible area there are four retreat cages, each 100 m² in size, with night boxes. The facilities are based on the habitat of the tigers found in the Amur - Ussuri region .
There are currently three tigers living in Leipzig Zoo, a breeding pair with an offspring cat from the 2017 year.
Leopard Valley
(Opening 2014)
In the immediate vicinity of the Tiger Taiga, the zoo opened a new complex for the endangered Amur leopard , the Leopard Valley, on March 21, 2014 .
The Leipzig Zoo can look back on a long tradition of keeping and breeding leopards. Since the beginning of systematic records in 1899, 97 Chinese leopards , 35 Amur leopards, 16 North Persian leopards , one Java leopard and 164 leopards without subspecies status - primarily so-called black panthers - have been born in the zoo . In 1973 in Leipzig - at that time still in the New Predator House - the successful rearing of a pure-bred Amur leopard was achieved in a zoo for the first time in the world. The zoo has not been able to follow up on the great successes of the 1970s and 1980s with individual breeding successes in the mid-1990s and 2010.
At the beginning of January 2014, the leopards moved from the tiger farm to the new facility. There the animals have a non-visible enclosure and six boxes including a mother box. The outdoor areas are spanned with a filigree wire mesh and the design and planting are based on the cats' living space.
The visitor has the opportunity to observe the animals through panes of glass and through a harp grill from a wooden hut. This illustrates the behavior, the precarious situation of just 30 wild animals, the efforts made to protect the site and to preserve it in zoological gardens.
An aviary was set up between the visitor's hut and the visitor's paths, which is currently occupied with owls.
Himalayan plant
(Opening 2017)
On August 1, 2017, the Himalayan high mountain landscape was opened in the area of the former predator free enclosures. In addition to new mountain systems, this also includes the renovated large flying cage from the 1930s.
Currently, three snow leopards, two Nepalese red pandas, a pair of East Chinese crested deer and a group of western griffon vultures and bald ibises are housed in the flight cage in the Himalayan complex.
The viewer has the opportunity to see the animals both on a flat level, where he is separated from the animals by a net, as well as elevated from caves and huts.
Asian free flight aviary
(Opening 2005)
The smaller of two free-flight aviaries built in 1928, originally used as an aviary for seabirds, was completely renovated in 2005 and restored in accordance with the requirements of listed buildings.
The Asian bird species living here have a rear wintering area. Visitors can enter the aviary and watch the animals from a shelter. The facility is designed in the form of Asian rice terraces.
The following bird species are currently kept here:
Exterior view of the small flight cage
Interior view with little egrets and brown ibis
Other plants
- Small deer house (built in 1908 for smaller species of deer) as accommodation for Anoas and Visayas pustelers .
- System for Przewalski horses on the former rhino savannah (since 2017)
South America
The continent of South America is the last on the way to the “zoo of the future”. The animal facilities will be built between 2015 and probably 2022.
The first project in the South America area was the establishment of the "Hacienda Las Casas", a restaurant in a South American atmosphere in the former Swiss house . The “Schweizerhäuschen” café, which was built by Georg Kintschy on Gohliser Weg in 1824 before the zoo opened, was incorporated into the zoo in 1927. The only surviving excursion restaurant in Leipzig from the Biedermeier era was the zoo's oldest building, but due to its desolate condition it was demolished in 2001 and rebuilt true to the original by Adalbert Haberbeck using historical details. The zoo school has been located in this building since 1969.
Pantanal, Pampas and Patagonia
(Opening 2018)
On May 17, 2018, the newly created facilities, based on the South American landscapes of the Pantanal , Pampas and Patagonia , were opened to visitors. Systems for the following animal species were built on an area of around 15,500 m²:
- Capybaras
- Great maras
- Great anteaters
- Maned wolves
- Chaco peccaries
- White-nosed coatis
- Darwin rhea
- Guanacos
The visitor crosses the three landscapes over a long wooden walkway and can observe the animals both on the left and on the right. The already existing restaurant Hacienda las Casas received a new terrace with a view of the Capybaras and Maras.
The area is completed by enclosures for llamas and house guinea pigs, which are also kept as pets in Germany . By 2022, the themed world will be completed by facilities and aviaries based on the Tierra del Fuego region . In addition to maned seals and Humboldt penguins , other South American coastal birds can also be seen.
Exit area and flamingo lagoon
(Opening 2014)
In view of the increasing number of visitors, the zoo made the decision to separate the entrance from the exit area. For this purpose, a new exit area in the style of a South American market square was opened on July 18, 2014 on the left side of the Parth, opposite the historic entrance area. In addition to a larger zoo shop with an area of 460 m², the new building also houses administrative areas and sanitary facilities. A new Parthe bridge will lead visitors leaving the zoo from the new building to the enlarged zoo forecourt.
As the first major new building in the 'South America' section of the zoo, the new exit area surrounds a ten-meter-high aviary spanned by a filigree wire mesh. On 1500 m² - half of which consists of water and half of land - prerequisites have been created for the species-appropriate keeping and breeding of the following South American bird species:
- Chile flamingos
- Cuban flamingos
- Roseate spoonbills
- Scarlet ibis
- Spectacle bites
- Widow Whistling Geese
- Peposakaenten
- Red-shouldered ducks
- Chile Pipes
- Puna ducks
The visitor crosses the facility, which he enters and leaves through a lock, on footbridges. Stable and wintering rooms for flamingos, ibis and various types of ducks have been integrated into the new building surrounding the aviary.
Founder's garden
Congress Hall
(Reopening 2015)
The congress hall was opened in 1910 on behalf of the zoo founder Ernst Pinkert as the zoo's community center and was an important part of the city's cultural life for decades. It became city-owned in the 1950s, was closed in the late 1980s and has since deteriorated, particularly inside.
The zoo has owned the congress hall again since 2009 and has been extensively renovated since 2010. On May 29, 2015, after a four-year construction period, the complex was reopened with a large ceremony and citizens' festival and has been operated by Messe Leipzig as an inner-city conference and congress center since autumn 2015.
Safari office and zoo school
(Opening 1999)
Information for a personal visit to the zoo can be obtained from the safari office, which is located directly on the left behind the iron entrance gate of the zoo. Zoo guides can also be booked to accompany the tour.
The safari office and the zoo school are located in the former home of the zoo director, which was built between 1899 and 1900.
“Entdeckerhaus Arche” in the New Predator House
(Opening 2002)
The New Predator House was built in 1901 according to plans by Heinrich Rust and opened in 1902; the building was extended in 1928. Originally, the main focus in the New Predator House was on breeding big cats.
From 2001, the entire interior of the building, including the former cages, was redesigned into a 550 m² interactive educational center based on the American model. The exhibition, conceived as a “journey through the world”, was developed by the exhibition planner from Mülheim, Kessler & Co. GmbH, the company Künstlerische Holzgestaltung Jürgen Bergmann and the Leipzig graphic designer Annegret Hänsel. It was opened on August 30, 2002 as the Arche discovery house . The information and education center, which is unique in Germany, consists of a species protection quay that provides information about in-situ protection and reintroduction projects of the zoo in Vietnam, Africa and Germany and about the zoo's coordinative activities and initiatives. In addition, the house provides details on the history of the zoo, gives a glimpse of the plans for the “zoo of the future” and conveys ethnological backgrounds to the way of life of the people on the continents of Africa, South America and Asia.
The New Predator House also became known as the “Leipzig Lion Factory” - more than 2,300 lions were born here. The animals could use the predator outdoor enclosures as outdoor facilities, which were accessible through a lattice walkway. Since the house no longer met the requirements of modern animal-friendly animal husbandry, clouded leopards as well as smaller cats and crawling cats were kept in the end. The last inhabitants were Fleckenmusang , Bengal cat and ocelot .
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The building, built in 1902 as accommodation for monkeys and small carnivores, housed successful breeding groups of various monkey, macaque, clawed and colobus monkey species for decades. Great apes were also temporarily housed here. Significant breeding successes such as the first German breeding of the colobus monkey or the rearing of 21 owl-capped monkeys, which make Leipzig Zoo the world's most successful breeder of this species, are achieved in this historic building.
In view of the dilapidated building stock, the first renovation and beautification work was carried out in 2005, and in autumn 2012 the house was closed in preparation for extensive renovation and conversion work. Most recently, the animal monkey house housed brazzamats , owl-headed monkeys , wild guinea pigs , tinsel monkeys and, in the winter months, ring- tailed lemurs . While the Brazzame cats, wild guinea pigs and Lisztaffen left the zoo and the katta keeping expired, the breeding groups of the owl-headed and Diana cats moved to the newly built Gondwanaland or after the closure of the house in enclosures behind the scenes.
After extensive renovation, the animal monkey house was reopened in May 2016 as accommodation for koalas .
Currently (as of June 2020) one male and one female Queensland Koala are kept in the house. A small separate outdoor area has also been available to the animals since summer 2020.
Aquarium and terrarium
(Opening in 1910 and 1913)
The Art Nouveau building in which the aquarium is housed was built between 1909 and 1910 by city planning director Anton Käppler on behalf of the then zoo director Johannes Gebbing, and a new building was added in the 1980s and 1990s. The building was expanded to include a terrarium in 1913. The attractive facade has been preserved to this day. From November 2018, the aging building was cleared, finally completely gutted and will be rebuilt by 2021 for around million euros. The former old building will contain a freshwater tract and the former new building will contain a saltwater tract and the entire system will be supplemented by a new exit to a circular path.
In the aquarium, various basins could be seen up to the point of gutting, the furnishings and fish stocks of which are based on different habitats on earth, such as Central European inland waters , the North Sea , the Mediterranean Sea , the Japanese Sea , the Amazon basin with a large electric eel or a coral reef . However, the highlight is inaugurated in 1992 cultivation location seawater ring basin where next moray eels and rays , among other things Blacktip reef sharks live. In addition to many smaller aquariums, there are also two large aquaterrariums with representatives of larger Asian and African coarse fish and catfish species in the basement of the ring basin , one of which is stocked with crocodiles and the other with Papuan softshell turtles . A tidal pool with mudskippers has also been set up.
In the adjoining terrarium, which was completely renovated and redesigned a few years ago, the following reptile and amphibian species live in various separate showcases:
Crocodile hump tail lizard , alligator snapping turtle , spiny softshell turtle , Mexican lance head Rattlesnakes , Ringhals cobras , chicken eaters , copper heads , yellow anacondas , Gartenboas , drop toads, Banded Fiji iguanas , Krokodiltejus , plumed basilisk , blue-tongued skink , frilled lizards , Wickelschwanzskinke , Small red-tailed snakes, Chinese Pip tortoises , Cane toads , sepik monitor lizards and mangrove night tree snakes
In between, various larger enclosures were set up in which, for the most part, different species were socialized with one another:
- Everglades landscape with Mississippi alligators
- large, central pond with browed smooth-forehead caimans , Terekay rail turtles and Nicaraguan jewelry turtles
- African dry terrarium with smooth-edged jointed turtles , crevice turtles , settler agamas and belt tails
- Madagascar enclosure with radiated tortoises , panther chameleon , Cuvier Madagascar iguanas and red-headed Schildechsen
- American desert terrarium with Gila-crusted lizards , Texas gopher tortoises and Colorado toads
- Southeast Asia terrarium with green water dragons , Chinese striped turtles , roti-necked turtles and Annam turtles
- Showcase for North American iguanas with collar-spiny lizards , prairie toads, Blue rock iguanas and Chuckwalla
Wild Antilles whistling frogs and tokehs provide an authentic jungle sound .
Since the spring of 2015, black-tailed prairie dogs have been living in a new enclosure on the site of the former tortoise outdoor enclosure in front of the terrarium. A walk-in aviary for budgies was opened on July 9, 2018 between the Koala House and the Entdeckerhaus Arche, initially home to 35 animals.
Monkey islands
(Opening 2015)
In the summer of 2014, redesign work began in the entrance area of the zoo. The facility directly behind the entrance, which had been used by flamingos for several decades, was demolished and a facility for South American monkey species was built in its place.
Two richly planted islands were created, surrounded by a shallow moat and offering visitors a view from three sides. The visitor has no insight into the adjoining warm house.
Since the start of the 2015 season on March 21st, the following species of monkeys have lived in the facilities:
Pongoland
(Opening 2001)
Pongoland ( Pongo = scientific generic name of the orangutans ) was the first completely completed area of the new zoo concept, it was created as a cooperation project with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA). The resident Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center has since become the world's largest ape enclosure .
Pongoland covers an area of 30,000 m². The warm house with five indoor facilities for orangutans, gorillas , two groups of chimpanzees and bonobos is 3250 m².
Gondwanaland
(Opening 2011)
The giant tropical hall Gondwanaland ( Gondwana = primary continent of the southern hemisphere) was the largest and most cost-intensive project of the “Zoo of the Future” concept.
The 34.5 meter high hall was opened on June 30, 2011, and visitors have been able to enter it since July 1, 2011. In order to create space for the largest tropical hall in Europe, the former sorting building of the worsted spinning mill on Pfaffendorfer Strasse, which was adjacent to the zoo grounds, was blown up and demolished and the grounds were incorporated into the zoo. The total area of the zoo increased to 26 hectares.
In themed areas, visitors are guided through the hall on foot or in a boat on a canal. The continent areas of the hall include Asia , Africa and South America .
Systems outside of the theme world concept
Australian facility
(Opened in 1995)
The Australian facility is also located in the Asian area next to the Bear Castle. Red giant kangaroos are socialized with Bennett kangaroos on the site . Since the start of the season in April 2009, the facility has been accessible to visitors on designated paths.
Monkey outdoor enclosures
The monkey outdoor facilities were built in 1934 with the clinker brick facade typical of the time. The complex consisted of Pavia rock on which since 1950 Mantelpaviane were held, and the monkey island where currently macaques live. The rhesus monkeys were housed there until 2002 and are now associated with sloth bears. Both systems were equipped with heated interiors. In 2014 the baboon rock was torn down as part of the new construction of the Kiwara-Kopje and baboon keeping was abandoned.
Predator enclosures and large flying cage
The predator free enclosures were built in 1928 according to plans by Carl James Bühring and served as outdoor areas for the animals from the New Predator House. They were accessible from this via a grid corridor. Mostly lions , hyenas and tigers lived here . Moats serve to separate visitors. As part of the construction work for Gondwanaland, the right-hand predator enclosure was demolished in winter 2008/2009. In December 2015, the severely ailing predator breeds and part of the large flying cage were demolished. A new building based on the design and construction of the previous buildings was opened in 2017 as a framing mountain range for the "Himalaya" section of the zoo.
Zoo axis with large and small flying cage
Exterior view of the large flight cage
Bear Castle
The Bärenburg was built in 1929 in the typical clinker brick architecture and opened in May 1930. The planning came from Director Johannes Gebbing and the then City Planning Director Carl James Bühring, whose initials are incorporated into the masonry. The Bear Castle is a horseshoe-shaped structure with five stage-like enclosures. The visitors are separated from the animals by four meter wide moats. Numerous bear species have been successfully bred on the site. Between 1930 and 2002, around 140 polar bears , over 450 brown bears , numerous collar bears , around 40 American black bears (baribals), 39 spectacled bears and 62 sloth bears were born in the Bear Castle.
After black and brown bear keeping was given up in the 1980s and 1990s, sloth bears were moved to the newly built sloth bear gorge in the entrance area of the zoo in 2002 . Polar bear keeping was given up in 2005 after the death of a 38-year-old and the transfer of a 20-year-old female to Bremerhaven. In 2013, the keeping of animals at the Bear Castle ended with the move of the last two old spectacled bears to a rear position.
Extensive renovation and restoration work took place from 2013 to early summer 2015. On July 3, 2015, the renovated complex, which was converted into an adventure playground and playfully introduces the evolution of vertebrates to young visitors, was given its new purpose. On the back of the Bear Castle, the zoo visitor has the opportunity to take a look at the former bear cages in the rear area in the so-called “time tunnel”. Historical details and information on keeping and caring for bears at Leipzig Zoo are provided on boards.
New bird house
The new bird house was integrated into the dilapidated structure of the old antelope house from 1934 in the 1960s and supplemented by a free-flight hall for tropical birds. The facade of the antelope house built in 1934 was partially preserved.
The walk-in free-flight aviary is home to, among others, Vietnam Island flying foxes , Sclater Rotbrust-Krontauben , Luzon gallicolumba , Javapfeifgänse , ostrich quail , Red-flight birds , China sunbirds, Rothaubenturakos , Malay Stare, Dajaldrosseln , gold crown shrikes, elves Blue Birds and Blaukappenhäherlinge. In a separate aviary, a pair of Sri Lankan giant squirrels are kept together with southern spherical armadillos.
In the anteroom of the free flight hall, the former visitor room of the antelope house, various tarantulas , insects and small bird species as well as red-shouldered proboscis dogs are presented to the visitor in aviaries .
Old bird house
In different large aviaries are yellow-cheeked Amazons , furrows beak beard bird , kea , Cuba Amazons , Rotbugaras , Hyacinth Macaws , Small Green Macaw and Decken-Tokos held. The indoor facilities are not visible to visitors.
Significant breeding successes
- 1895 - German first breeding of the polar bear
- 1926 - European first breeding of the Sumatran tiger
- 1929 - European first breeding of the two-toed sloth (Unau)
- 1948 - presumably German first breed of western griffon vulture
- 1949 - World first breed of hamsters
- 1954 - European first breeding of the Chinese leopard
- 1963 - European first breeding of the Indian sloth bear
- 1964 - German first breeding of the Diana cat
- 1966 - German first breeding of the brown hyena (saddle pad hyena)
- 1968 - German first breeding of the colobus monkey
- 1973 - World first breeding of the Amur leopard
- 1973 - European first breeding of the wood bison
- 1973 - First German breed of Orinocogans
- 1980 - German first breeding of the arakakadu
- 1980 - German first breeding of the blue-parted parrot
- 1986 - German first breed of the Vietnam island flying dog
- 1996 - German first breeding of the nominate form of the stump crocodile
- 2001 - World first breeding of the Sepik monitor
- 2008 - German zoo first breeding of the white-bellied pygmy silk monkey
- 2009 - World first breeding of the southern giant bark rat
- 2010 - German first breeding of the Visaya pustular pig
- 2012 - European first breeding of the Nicaragua eared turtle
The zoo gained international renown for breeding Amur tigers, African lions, lowland anoas and Indian sloth bears and is one of the most successful breeders of predators, not least because of numerous lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, hyenas and bears worldwide.
Regular events
Holiday events
On the occasion of Easter, Whitsun, Children's Day on June 1st, May Day and Halloween, the zoo regularly hosts events that are strongly geared towards young visitors.
Readings
During the Leipzig Book Fair in March, there are regular author readings in the zoo. In recent years these events have taken place in the aquarium, the Schweizerhaus or the Kiwara Lodge.
Jungle night
The jungle night takes place annually in August at Leipzig Zoo. On this evening, all animal houses are open longer and offer the visitor the opportunity to marvel at the animals at night. Usually the jungle night starts at 5:00 p.m. The event is accompanied by numerous music groups (mostly African music) and other smaller events.
Hakuna Matata
The “ Hakuna Matata ”, an African evening with tours and a buffet , takes place regularly in the zoo from May to December .
Visitor numbers (according to the calculation key of the Association of German Zoo Directors)
| year | Total visitors |
annual tickets sold |
| 1969 | 1,119,000 | 1560 |
| 1971 | 1,250,000 | 1623 |
| 1972 | 1,250,000 | 1624 |
| 1973 | 1,300,000 | 1810 |
| 1974 | 1,300,000 | 1700 |
| 1975 | 1,332,194 | 1654 |
| 1976 | 1,264,726 | 1948 |
| 1977 | 1,218,617 | 1407 |
| 1978 | 1,380,000 | 1700 |
| 1979 | 1,238,000 | 1324 |
| 1980 | 1,240,000 | 1388 |
| 1981 | 1,130,000 | nb |
| 1982 | 1,330,000 | 1367 |
| 1983 | 1,246,500 | 1316 |
| 1984 | 1,330,000 | 1183 |
| 1985 | 1,243,000 | 1007 |
| 1986 | 1,230,000 | 998 |
| 1987 | 1,268,000 | 944 |
| 1988 | 1,330,000 | 924 |
| 1989 | 1,560,000 | 1075 |
| 1990 | 1,021,293 | 1580 |
| 1991 | 789.272 | 3254 |
| 1992 | 901.496 | 3790 |
| year | Total visitors |
annual tickets sold |
| 1993 | 831.426 | 2270 |
| 1994 | 761,563 | 1979 |
| 1995 | 782.951 | 1954 |
| 1996 | 686.731 | 1501 |
| 1997 | 687 398 | 1382 |
| 1998 | 744.749 | 2147 |
| 1999 | 755.736 | 2829 |
| 2000 | 751.619 | 4227 |
| 2001 | 1,172,158 | 6392 |
| 2002 | 1,164,392 | 8546 |
| 2003 | 1,181,535 | 11,122 |
| 2004 | 1,319,767 | 14,000 |
| 2005 | 1,457,938 | 25,616 |
| 2006 | 1,759,963 | 35,554 |
| 2007 | 1,774,587 | 42,854 |
| 2008 | 1,673,608 | 39,515 |
| 2009 | 1,723,349 | 45.209 |
| 2010 | 1,560,791 | 27,553 |
| 2011 | 2,098,075 | 38,732 |
| 2012 | 2,123,349 | 34,701 |
| 2013 | 1,842,639 | 39,042 |
| 2014 | 1,866,809 | 32,754 |
| 2015 | 1,660,292 | 39,859 |
| 2016 | 1,709,941 | 43.104 |
| 2017 | 1,652,886 | 40,730 |
| 2018 | 1,723,180 | 45,644 |
Directors
Directors of the Leipzig Zoological Garden were:
- 1878–1909: Ernst Pinkert (1844–1909)
- 1910–1935: Johannes Gebbing (1874–1958)
- 1935–1955: Karl Max Schneider (1887–1955)
- 1955–1957: Heinrich Dathe (1910–1991)
- 1957–1963: Ludwig Zukowsky (1888–1965)
- 1964–1993: Siegfried Seifert (1922–1998)
- 1993–1997: Peter Müller (* 1940)
- since 1997: Jörg Junhold (* 1964), from 1997 to 2000 as operations manager of the municipal company, since 2000 as managing director of Zoo Leipzig GmbH.
See also
literature
- Nastasja Klothmann: Emotional worlds in the zoo. A story of emotions 1900–1945. Diss. Phil. Hamburg, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-3022-0 .
- Mustafa Haikal , Jörg Junhold: On the trail of the lion. 125 years of Leipzig Zoo. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-936508-95-X .
- Mustafa Haikal, Jörg Junhold (Ed.): Beware of the lion! Humorous from the Leipzig Zoo. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936618-49-6 .
- Mustafa Haikal: The Lion Factory. CVs and legends. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936508-15-1 .
- Georg Westermann: Illustrated guide through the zoological garden in Leipzig. (Reprint of the Schloemp edition, Leipzig 1883). Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-936508-49-9 .
- Robert Thomas: Among customers, comedians and wild animals. Memories of Robert Thomas, guard at the zool. Leipzig garden. Grunow, Leipzig 1905.
Web links
- Website of the Leipzig Zoo
- "Elefant, Tiger & Co", MDR documentation from the Leipzig Zoo
- Information and events about Leipzig Zoo
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zoo director Prof. Dr. Jörg Junhold on the zoo of the future. Retrieved October 8, 2018 .
- ↑ LVZ-Online: Animals - Leipzig defends second place in the European zoo ranking - LVZ - Leipziger Volkszeitung. Retrieved April 20, 2017 .
- ^ Stiftung Warentest: Zoo Ranking - Vienna has the best - message - Stiftung Warentest. Retrieved April 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Ulrich van der Heyden, Joachim Zeller (ed.): Colonialism in this country. A search for clues in Germany. Sutton Verlag, 2007, p. 55.
- ↑ Alexander Honold: exhibitions of the foreign - people and people show around 1900. In: Sebastian Conrad, Jürgen Osterhammel (ed.): Das Kaiserreich transnational. Germany in the World 1871–1914. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, p. 180.
- ^ Anne Dreesbach: Tamed savages. The display of "exotic" people in Germany 1870–1940. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 172.
- ↑ Mustafa Haikal: The vicissitudes of time. The renovation of the zoo. In: On the trail of the lion. 125 years of Leipzig Zoo. Pp. 111-117.
- ↑ Sandra Miehlbradt: The forgotten town planning artist Carl James Bühring. In: Leipzig city history. Yearbook 2012. Sax-Verlag, Markkleeberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86729-118-7 , pp. 187-214.
- ↑ a b Jörg Junhold: Visions and Projects. The departure to the zoo of the future. In: On the trail of the lion. 125 years of Leipzig Zoo. Pp. 241-247.
- ↑ http://www.zoo-leipzig.de/
- ↑ On the trail of the lion. 125 years of Leipzig Zoo. P. 253.
- ↑ lion outbreak on September 29, 2016
- ^ Zoo Leipzig: Socialization of the lions has begun. Retrieved January 12, 2017 .
- ↑ New flat share in the zoo: rhinoceros, cheetahs & hussar monkeys - Kiwara-Kopje opened | Leipzig Zoo. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Tapir Ketiga leaves Leipzig Zoo - porcupines pull an article from lvz.de from August 29, 2017, accessed on September 3, 2017
- ↑ Himalayas in the middle of Leipzig Zoo - Discover now. Leipzig Zoo, July 1, 2017, accessed on January 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Snow leopards move into the Himalayas - new cat has arrived. Leipzig Zoo, July 7, 2017, accessed on January 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Green space office of the city of Leipzig: Das Rosental. Leaflet from the series Leipziger Parkanlagen. Leipzig 1997.
- ^ Wolfgang Hocquél: Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-932900-54-9 , p. 170 f.
- ↑ Kessler & Co. GmbH: Entdeckerhaus Zoo Leipzig ( Memento from September 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Welcome to the budgie oasis - new walk-in aviary opened. July 9, 2018, accessed July 9, 2018 .
- ^ Gisela Krische: 90 years of breeding polar bears in the Leipzig Zoo. In: Panthera 1984.
- ^ Siegfried Seifert: Investigation of the reproductive biology of the big cats kept in the Leipzig zoological garden with special consideration of the lion. VEB Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1978.
- ↑ Website of the zoo: two-toed sloth ( Memento from October 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Westlicher Griffon Vulture Zootierliste.de, accessed on June 14, 2016
- ^ Alan H. Shoemaker: International Leopard Studbook 1987.
- ↑ Lars Versteege: Regional Sloth Bear Studbook 2007.
- ↑ Miranda F. Stevenson: European Regional Studbook for the Diana Monkey 1995.
- ^ Alan H. Shoemaker: International Brown Hyena Studbook 1989.
- ↑ Achim Winkler: EEP Studbook - Western Black-and-White Colobus 2002.
- ^ Alan H. Shoemaker: International Leopard Studbook 1987.
- ^ Siegfried Seifert, Gisela Krische: 25 years of development of the Leipzig zoo. In: Panthera 1974.
- ↑ Orinokogans Zootierliste.de, accessed on June 14, 2016
- ↑ Blaunackenpapagei Zootierliste.de, accessed on June 14, 2016
- ↑ Vietnam-Inselflughund Zootierliste.de, accessed on June 14, 2016
- ↑ Stumpkrokodil (nominate form) Zootierliste.de, accessed on June 14, 2016
- ↑ Sepikwaran Zootierliste.de, accessed on June 14, 2016
- ↑ Weißbauch-Zwergseidenäffchen Zootierliste.de, accessed on June 14, 2016
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