Serengeti Park
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| Location | Hodenhagen, Germany |
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| Coordinates | 52°44′44″N 9°37′0″E / 52.74556°N 9.61667°ECoordinates: 52°44′44″N 9°37′0″E / 52.74556°N 9.61667°E |
| Owner | Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen GmbH Am Safaripark 1 29693 Hodenhagen |
| Opened | 1974 |
| Area | 200 ha (490 acres) |
| Website | www.Serengeti-Park.de |
The Serengeti Park in Hodenhagen, Lower Saxony, is a zoo and leisure park in North Germany.
In 1972, the Duke of Bedford had the idea of building the largest safari park in Europe with partners from America. In 1974, this plan was realised and, since then, the Sepe family has run the park. When it opened the investors had spent about 20 million deutschmarks. In 1983, the park was extensively renovated. Over time, in addition to Animal World, it has created new zones known as Monkey World, Water World, and Leisure World. In 1996, Serengeti Park was the first to release into the wild white rhinos bred in Europe.
In 1999, the first baby monkey jungle in the world was opened where children up to 8 years old enter a height-limited area directly to see different small species of monkey. Adults may only use the walkway running parallel to it. In 2003, Serengeti Park admitted its first white tiger.
In 2004, Serengeti Park received permanent recognition as a zoological garden in accordance with current EU guideline 99/22/EG and §45 of the north German nature reserve law and on the basis of a LANA inspection. 23 March 2006 saw the first African elephant calf to be born in north Germany for 30 years.
Serengeti Park is divided into four zones: Animal World (Tierland), Water World (Wasserland), Monkey World (Affenland), and Leisure World (Freizeitland).
Animal World covers an area of 110 hectares (270 acres), has around 1,500 animals living in the open and can be visited by car. Alternatively visitors can use a Serengeti Bus; during feeding times the animals are enticed close to the bus. The zone is divided into 13 sections.
Section 1 known as Afrika 1 contains eland, giraffe, blue wildebeest, waterbuck, oryx, sable antelope, flamingo, and nyala as well as enclosures for spider monkeys and siamang. In Section 2, Scandinavia, reindeer and moose may be seen. Section 3 Europa is home to fallow deer, moufflon, goats, sheep, ducks and geese, dwarf donkeys, and mini ponies. Here visitors may leave their cars and feed and stroke the animals. Common seals can also be observed here in a natural lake.
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