Burgers' Zoo
| Location | Arnhem, Netherlands |
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| Land area | 45 ha (110 acres)[1] |
| Coordinates | 52°00′36″N 5°53′59″E / 52.01°N 5.89972°ECoordinates: 52°00′36″N 5°53′59″E / 52.01°N 5.89972°E |
| Number of animals | 10,000+[2] |
| Number of species | 500+[2] |
| Total volume of tanks | 8,000,000 l (2,100,000 USgal) |
| Annual visitors | 1.5 million[2] |
| Memberships | NVD,[3] EAZA,[4] WAZA[5] |
| Website | www.burgerszoo.eu/?ce=1 |
Burgers' Zoo is a 45-hectare (110-acre) zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and is one of the biggest zoos in the country. 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, and receives about 1.5 million visitors annually.
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[edit] Exhibits
The zoo has 8 theme sites:
- Burgers' Dierenpark (the original zoo).
- Burgers' Safari (a safari park).
- Burgers' Bush is a 1.5-hectare (3.7-acre) indoor tropical rainforest.[2]
- Burgers' Mangrove (a mangrove swamp).
- Burgers' Desert (focusing on the Sonoran Desert).
- Burgers' Ocean is a 8,000,000-litre (2,100,000 USgal) seawater aquarium duplicating a tropical reef, and is home to living corals, coral fishes, sharks, rays, and other aquatic animals.[2]
- Burgers' Avonturenland (the zoo's playground), opened in 2002).
- Burgers' Rimba (the zoo's newest attraction), opened in 2008. The Rimba gives visitors an impression of a Southeast Asian rainforest. The animals in this display include Sumatran tigers, sun bears, binturongs, Golden-cheeked Gibbons, dusky leaf monkeys, Sri Lankan leopards, golden jackals, banteng, muntjac, hog deer, Eld's deer, siamang, pig-tailed macaque, reticulated python, and water monitor.
[edit] Conservation
Burgers’ Zoo has been successful enough in breeding fish and coral for their own aquarium that they can now help provide animals to other public aquariums. They use an artificial moon to stimulate sexual reproduction of corals in their reef, and also clone some 60 varieties.[6]
Besides 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 reintroduction into the wild.
[edit] Kwimba/Quinba/Quimba
Kwimba, a female Asian elephant, caused a stir during her stay at the zoo (1966–1998).[7] She liked to steal the handbags of lady visitors and swallow them whole.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ "Visit the Park". burgerszoo.eu. Burgers' Zoo. http://www.burgerszoo.eu/bezoek-het-park/parkfaciliteiten. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
- ^ a b c d e "Burgers' Zoo". zandavisitor.com. Zoo and Aquarium Visitor. http://www.zandavisitor.com/forumtopicdetail-338-Burgers%27_Zoo-Aquariums. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
- ^ "NVD Zoos". nvdzoos.nl. NVD. http://www.nvdzoos.nl/?pageAlias=nvd&mainId=23. Retrieved 26 march 2011.
- ^ "EAZA Member Zoos & Aquariums". eaza.net. EAZA. http://www.eaza.net/membership/Pages/Zoos%20and%20Aquariums.aspx. Retrieved 26 march 2011.
- ^ "Zoos and Aquariums of the World". waza.org. WAZA. http://www.waza.org/en/site/zoos-aquariums. Retrieved 26 march 2011.
- ^ "Largest animal transport ever thanks to reproduction success". burgerszoo.eu. Burgers' Zoo. http://www.burgerszoo.eu/over-burgers-zoo/nieuws/grootste-diertransport-ooit-dankzij-foksucces. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
- ^ 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
Media related to Burgers' Zoo at Wikimedia Commons
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