Burgers' Zoo
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Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem is one of the biggest zoos in the Netherlands. Arnhem is a city that lies within the Veluwe, a nature park in the east of the Netherlands. The zoo is popular with both Dutch and German people.
It has 8 theme sites:
- Burgers' Dierenpark (the original zoo),
- Burgers' Safari (a safari park),
- Burgers' Bush (a tropical rainforest),
- Burgers' Mangrove (a mangrove swamp),
- Burgers' Desert (focusing on the Sonoran Desert),
- Burgers' Ocean (seawater aquariums),
- Burgers' Avonturenland (The zoo's playground, opened in 2002),
- Burgers' Rimba (The zoo's newest attraction, opened in 2008. The Rimba gives the visitor an impression of a Southeast Asian rainforest. The animals in this display are:
- Sumatran tigers - Malayan sun bears / binturongs - Golden cheeked gibbons ( / dusky leaf monkeys coming 2009 ) - Sri Lanka leopards / golden jackals - Banteng / muntjac / hog deer/ Eld's deer / siamang / pig-tailed macaque - Reticulated python / water monitor)
Apart from presenting many of its animals in simulated habitat in spacious indoors ecosystems, Burgers' Zoo also has facilities for conservation and captive breeding of animals nearly extinct. The Socorro Dove (Zenaida graysoni) for example does not exist outside captivity at present; it was wiped out by introduced mammals on its home island. The species is being bred in Burgers' Zoo for eventual reintroduciton into the wild.
[edit] Kwimba/Quinba/Quimba
Kwimba, a female Asian elephant, caused a stir during her stay at the zoo (1966-1998).[1] She liked to steal the handbags of lady visitors and swallow them whole.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Quinba (Kwimba) at Pont-Scorff Zoo
- ^ Sobol, Donald J. (1992). Encyclopedia Brown's Book of Strange but True Crimes. Apple. p. 26. ISBN 0590441485.
[edit] External links
- (Dutch) (English) (German) Official website
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