Royal Burgers' Zoo
Bighorn sheep in Burgers' Desert
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| Location | Arnhem, Netherlands |
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| Coordinates | 52°00′36″N 5°53′59″E / 52.01000°N 5.89972°ECoordinates: 52°00′36″N 5°53′59″E / 52.01000°N 5.89972°E |
| 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 |
Royal Burgers' Zoo (Dutch: Koninklijke Burgers' Zoo) is a 45-hectare (110-acre) zoo in Arnhem, 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.
The zoo has 8 theme sites:
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.
Besides presenting many of its animals in simulated habitat in spacious indoors ecosystems, Burgers' Zoo also has facilities for 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 mammals on its home island. The species is being bred in Burgers' Zoo for eventual reintroduction into the wild.
Kwimba, a female Asian elephant, caused a stir during her stay at the zoo (1966–1998). She liked to steal the handbags of lady visitors and swallow them whole.
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