Dubai zoo is the oldest not only in the UAE but in the whole of the Arabian Peninsula, in addition this is the first Arabian zoo, which began raising Arabian wild cats and rare species of chimpanzee. Built in 1967, with the permission of the ruling at the time, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed al Maktoum, the zoo, finishing by today's standards a relatively small area of two hectares, is located in Jumeirah. Then the area was just a poor urban outskirts, it is not like a modern centre of Dubai, with its luxury buildings and developed tourist infrastructure. The zoo housed at first only a few animals, most of them were wild cats, monkeys and hoofed. But in 1971 the right to manage the zoo moved to the municipality of Dubai, which is in turn held a large-scale reconstruction. As a result has significantly changed not only the appearance of the zoo, but also vastly increased the variety of animals.

Now the Dubai zoo is one of the attractions of the city and is particularly popular among those who came on holiday with small children. But walking on it will be interesting not only for children. Although it's a small zoo here, nevertheless, you can see animals and birds brought from all over the world – a total of about 230 species, and 400 species of reptiles. In addition, among the zoo animals have such representatives are now considered an endangered species like the Bengal and Siberian tigers, gorillas, Arabian wolves and wild cat Gordon.