Zoo Duisburg- Germany
History
Zoo was founded in 1934 as the Duisburg -Hamborner zoo in Duisburg Kaiser Mountain. As early as 1936, the zoo began with a first (borrowed) elephants increase. Since the end of the Second World War the facilities and buildings were severely damaged or completely destroyed in 1945 most of the zoo was closed.
From 1965 on a reclaimed area is a Dolphinarium opens. The attitude and study of bottlenose dolphins increased the prestige of the zoo, yet made for sharp criticism as a generous-sized Dolphinarium only a small part of the space to offer can even critics loudly of a dolphin's natural habitat is available in.
1970 Animal Park named in the "Zoo" to and recorded in 1978 the first birth of a dolphin. In addition to building a house for Kodiak Bears (1982), Big Cats (1985), koalas (1994) and an outdoor enclosure for gorillas (2002) among other things, in 1988 the partnership of Duisburg with Wuhan by building a Chinese garden fauna committed together. In May 2004 the zoo celebrated its 70th anniversary in Duisburg.
1952, the zoo's purchase of the first Indian elephant list the. 1958 was a plant penguins and seals of the entrepreneur and promoter Helmut Horten inaugurated.
Dolphinarium
Six bottlenose Ivo , Pepina , Delphi , Daisy , Dolly and Donna lived in a pool which live, the almost million liters of seawater holds third It is not chemically, but special skimmer systems with air purified.
It is the largest Dolphinarium in Germany. On several occasions, Duisburg Delphi young animals raised.
Duphi (1988, now deceased), Delphi (1992), Daisy (1996), Duke (2001, now deceased) and Dolly (2007, daughter of Delphi ).
Several times the young could not be raised, however. In September 2007, Donna , the daughter of Pepina born, the 27th since February 2008, the visitors to see is open.
Equatorium
The Equatorium is the largest area of the Duisburg Zoo, it bears his name due to the fact that animals live there, which is usually in the (rain) forests of the equatorial region refers to. Primarily Primates of all types can be found here the last few years there will be piece by piece, renovated and redesigned. 2002 was gorilla-Busch, a large open area for lowland gorillas and Brazza monkeys opened.
In the fall of 2005 opened the new eastern entrance, behind which Gebirgsloris under the supervision of a walk-in aviary can see. The animals can be fed to 14 daily clocks. In addition to the bears also inhabit Loris colobus a semi-natural enclosure. The facility was donated by the Thyssen. Here also live orang-utans, macaques, gibbons, sloths, dwarf hippos and other animals.
In 2006, the outdoor enclosure was created for the tortoises. It is based on their natural habitat. Thus, there are many stone caves as a retreat, and the turtles feed on the vegetation in the plant.
In the complex there is also a small stream and heat cabins: Plexiglas container in which the turtles can go to warm up. Before the turtles lived in the building with the aquarium, where they had a large sand sown enclosure, in which there were heat lamps.
Tickets
For groups need to enquire at counter…
Family with 2 adults with max. 3 own children 3-13 J, pupils under 17 years (more than two children with evidence) 23,50 €
Day ticket Zoo Dolphinarium combined with RWE
Adults from 14 years € 14.50
Child 3 - 13 years € 7.00
Reduced group of 20 adults, schoolchildren, students, trainees, disabled persons, civil and military duty, retired, unemployed, Hartz IV recipients, social assistance recipients (all with just an evidence) 11,50 € .
Address
Zoo Duisburg AG
Address: 273 street Mülheim, 47058 Duisburg
Tel: 0203-305590
Fax: 0203-3055922
E-mail: Info@Zoo-Duisburg.de
Internet: www.zoo-duisburg.de
How to reach @ Duisburg zoo*.
Public Transportation:
From Duisburg's main train station take tram line 901 towards Mülheim or Zoo / Uniand get off at Zoo / Uni.
Travel time: about 4 minutes
By car: From all directions on the A 3 / A 40 to the junction Duisburg-Kaiser mountain,exit Duisburg-Kaiser mountain, the zoo is located at the exit, the zoo-parking signs.
The parking fee is in the parking lot Carl-Benz-Str. (steep climb)
We look forward to your visit. Zoo Duisburg AG
Mülheim Str 273, 47058 Duisburg
http://www.zoo-duisburg.de/info@zoo-duisburg.de
Timings* :
Ticket window hours
Winter (1.11.-29.2.) 9.00 - 16.00 clock
Summer (1.3.-31.10.) 9.00 - 17.30 clock
New Year's Eve 31.12. 9.00 bis 13.00 clock
Christmas Day and Boxing 25./26.12. 10.00 bis 16.00 clock
Christmas Eve 24.12. 9.00 bis 13.00 clock
New Year's Day (01.01.) 10.00 bis 16.00 clock
The zoo is open daily throughout the year at 9.00 clock and you can extend your walkuntil dusk.After the ticket office you can leave the yard without any problems via hubs.
The main entrance to the Mülheim road is open every day. The side entrance TigerFund (Carl-Benz-Strasse) is open daily in summer, in winter only on Sundays and public holidays.
Delphi demonstrations are held several times a day. In the summer, at least three times a day, twice a day in winter. Please note the current figurehead of the times atcheckouts.
Our animal houses close at 18.30 clock in summer and winter clock at 16.00.
Summer: 1 March to 31 October
Winter: Rest of Season
*Note:
Information collected from available sources, with intension to just have an idea of the charges and timings … subject to change without prior information…
