Oakland zoo Photo: Oakland zoo

In the heart of the new Zealand city of Auckland on 17 acres of land, covered with beautiful forests and is one of the most beautiful Zoological gardens in New Zealand - Auckland Zoo. It collected a huge number of local and exotic animals: 138 species and more than 875 animals.

The zoo consists of several major exhibitions. On one of them you can watch elephants, which not only can swim in the pools behind the fences in their cages, but can walk with the trainers directly in the paths of the zoo to the surprise of the guests. In another show, you can see representatives of the Australian fauna: wallabies, EMU, rainbow parrots. It regularly hosts performances, which you can feed animals and birds in their aviaries. There are African exhibition where you can see hippos floating in the swampy river, baboons, climbing trees, and even flamingos.

The path with the name of the Pridelands resembles a mini Safari. In one cage happily coexist giraffes, zebras, ostriches, white rhinos - the third largest animals in the world. In another aviary home to the pride of the zoo and the true owners of Savannah lions.

In the center of the Zoo find your house of representatives of the primates: orangutans of Borneo, lemurs and many others. In a special cage behind glass in a recreated habitat of monkeys-pygmy marmoset, Golden lions, clawed and squirrel monkeys, Gibbons and monkeys spiders.

In the children's area, young visitors can not only learn a lot about the world of animals, but also to play in a special area, climb the hill called "friendly dragon" and watch homemade pigs who walk here under the guidance of their trainers.

The jewel of the Oakland zoo are six artificially created installations of various animal habitats, which can be found on the territory of New Zealand. These unique locations can only be seen here. Reconstituted water and marshy tracts with flora, peculiar only to this natural environment, Islands and cliffs, forests and night cave-dwelling in her nocturnal animals and birds - all of it staggers the imagination of both children and adults.

In the Zoo there are regular meetings, workshops, and various study and entertainment.

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