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Zoo in Rennbahnallee , Rostock

Zoologischer Garten Rostock
Entrance at Barnstorfer Ring
54°4′41.1″N 12°5′25.26″E / 54.078083°N 12.0903500°E / 54.078083; 12.0903500
Date opened	4 January 1899
Location	Rennbahnallee 21 18059 Rostock
Land area	56 ha (0.56 km2)
No. of animals	4500 (2012)[1]
No. of species	320 (2012)[1]
Annual visitors	637.000 (2013)[2]
Owner	Zoologischer Garten Rostock gGmbH
Website	www.zoo-rostock.de

Rostock Zoo (German: Zoologische Garten Rostock) is a zoo in the city of Rostock, founded in 1899. It covers 56 hectares and with 4500 animals from 320 species, Rostock Zoo is the largest Zoo on the German east coast. Rostock Zoo is studbook keeper of Polar bears within the European Endangered Species Programme. Director of Rostock Zoo is Udo Nagel.

History

From foundation to 1945

Around 1864 previous military grounds were transferred into a garden, and by 1866 completed and named Trotzenburg. 1898 the first fenced animals were introduced, as wildboar and different kind of deer. The next year was the official opening for the Hirschgarten an der Trotzenburg, and the first zookeeper, Carl Lange, was employed to take care of the different animals.^[3]

1945 to 1989

The air bombings during the second world war on the city of Rostock, all building and enclosures in Rostock Zoo were destroyed. The garden architect Arno Lehmann started in 1951 the renovation and rebuilding of the Zoo. Many people from the town volunteered in this work, with direct manual work, as well as woth their support. The Zoo was reopened for the public in 1952, was enlarged in 1956, and renamed and refounded 16th of January 1956 as Zoologischen Garten Rostocks

1960 the two first Asian elephants arrived to the new built elephant anclosure, and later Rostock Zoo took over the breeding of Arabian horse and became the largest breeder of the horse in the entire East Germany. 1963 the first Polar bear was born in the Zoo, and it was given the name Katja. In 1973 the Zoo was once again enlarged with an added 56 Hectares, coordinated with a new master plan.

Since 1980 Rostock Zoo is studbook keeper of Polar bears within the European Endangered Species Programme.

Since 1989

In 1992 Gemeinnützige GmbH Zoologischer Garten Rostock was founded and chaired by Rostock Zoo director Udo Nagel, and from 1992 until 1998 several new animal enclosures were established, among them Painted dogs, Eared seals and Hussar monkey, and since then more enclosures has been created or renovated.

In 1999 the Zoo celebrated the Jubileum named 100 Jahre Tiergärtnerei, after being a garden for hundreds years.

The female african elephant Sara, oldest in Zoos in Europe, died 2013, and ended the Zoos keeping of elephants, and the elephant enclosure was replaced with Pygmy hippopotamus.

Darwineum

Named after the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection, Charles Darwin, Darwineum was opened on 8th of September 2012. This living museum, which cover 20 000 m², and contains over 80 species of animals, was the larget building project throughout Rostock Zoo history, at a cost of more than 28 million Euro.

In two interactive expositions is biological diversity on earth exposed, as well as the evolution behind it, starting with the Big Bang and the creation of the Observable universe. Theme Boxes with living fossils, Aquarium with corals, seahorses and Germanys largest circular tank for Jellyfish. The center of the exhibition is the Tropenhalle, a 4 000 m² tropicalexhibition with Gibbons, gorillas, Orang utans and De Brazza's monkey. Next to the Tropenhalle is an exhibition which shows the culture evolution of Man.

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  Polar bears in the Zoo
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  Meerkat in the Zoo
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  Antelope squirrel in Darwineum

References

• Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent German-language Wikipedia article. Retrieved on 16 January 2014. Some of the following references are cited by that German-language article:

External links

• Official website
• Media related to Rostock Zoo at Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rostock Zoo.

• Darwineum im Zoo Rostock

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