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Royal Burgers' Zoo
Royal Burgers' Zoo
	52°00′36″N 5°53′59″E / 52.01000°N 5.89972°E
Location	Arnhem, Netherlands
Land area	45 ha (110 acres)
No. of animals	10,000+
No. of species	500+
Total volume of tanks	8,000,000 L (2,100,000 US gal)
Annual visitors	1.5 million
Memberships	NVD, EAZA, WAZA
Website	www.burgerszoo.eu/?ce=1

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Royal Burgers' Zoo (Dutch:Koninklijke 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.

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 US gal) seawater aquarium.^[2] Two of the main tanks are the 3,000,000-litre (790,000 US gal) ocean with sharks and other fish, and the 750,000-litre (200,000 US gal) coral reef with tropical fish, living corals and other invertebrates.^[6]^[7]
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.
Burgers' Kids Jungle (Indoor playground in the theme of a South-American village, opened in 2012)

Conservation

Burgers fat ones

Kwimba/Quinba/Quimba

Kwimba, a female Asian elephant, caused a stir during her stay at the zoo (1966–1998).^[8] She liked to steal the handbags of lady visitors and swallow them whole.^[9]

References

^ "Visit the Park". burgerszoo.eu. Burgers' Zoo. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Burgers' Zoo". zandavisitor.com. Zoo and Aquarium Visitor. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
^ "NVD Zoos". nvdzoos.nl. NVD. Retrieved 26 march 2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
^ "EAZA Member Zoos & Aquariums". eaza.net. EAZA. Retrieved 26 march 2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
^ "Zoos and Aquariums of the World". waza.org. WAZA. Retrieved 26 march 2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
^ Korallenriff: Groß-Aquarien: Burger´s Ocean in Arnheim. Retrieved 14 September 2013
^ Janse, Max, and Joep Wensing (2000). Burgers’ Ocean, a new Indo-Pacific ecodisplay at Burgers’ Zoo, Arnhem, The Netherlands. Bulletin- Institut Oceanographique Monaco -Numero Special 20: 331-334
^ Quinba (Kwimba) at Pont-Scorff Zoo
^ Sobol, Donald J. (1992). Encyclopedia Brown's Book of Strange but True Crimes. Apple. p. 26. ISBN 0-590-44148-5.

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External links

Media related to Burgers' Zoo at Wikimedia Commons

Official website

[zoo_facilities-1] "Visit the Park". burgerszoo.eu. Burgers' Zoo. Retrieved 26 March 2011.

[zandavisitor-2] "Burgers' Zoo". zandavisitor.com. Zoo and Aquarium Visitor. Retrieved 26 March 2011.

[nvd_list-3] "NVD Zoos". nvdzoos.nl. NVD. Retrieved 26 march 2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

[eaza_list-4] "EAZA Member Zoos & Aquariums". eaza.net. EAZA. Retrieved 26 march 2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

[waza_list-5] "Zoos and Aquariums of the World". waza.org. WAZA. Retrieved 26 march 2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

[6] Korallenriff: Groß-Aquarien: Burger´s Ocean in Arnheim. Retrieved 14 September 2013

[7] Janse, Max, and Joep Wensing (2000). Burgers’ Ocean, a new Indo-Pacific ecodisplay at Burgers’ Zoo, Arnhem, The Netherlands. Bulletin- Institut Oceanographique Monaco -Numero Special 20: 331-334

[8] Quinba (Kwimba) at Pont-Scorff Zoo

[9] Sobol, Donald J. (1992). Encyclopedia Brown's Book of Strange but True Crimes. Apple. p. 26. ISBN 0-590-44148-5.

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 ==Conservation==
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-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.<ref name="zoo_news1"/>
-Besides presenting many of its animals in simulated [[habitat]] in spacious indoors [[ecosystem]]s, Burgers' Zoo also has facilities for [[conservation biology|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 [[mammal]]s on [[Socorro Island|its home island]]. The species is being bred in Burgers' Zoo for eventual reintroduction into the wild.
 ==Kwimba/Quinba/Quimba==

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