Petting zoo

A petting zoo is a zoo, where animals are kept, the

• Robust and are quiet enough to be petted and fed,
• Tend to seek contact with the people, or at least not evade it
• Little aggressive behavior and show
• Can inflict no serious injuries in the rule.

Similarly, the designation petting zoo for appropriate departments in larger zoos will be used.

To ensure the health of the animals, the food is provided by zoos and kept either in vending machines or from a kiosk.

Today 's zoos are often set up so that the animals have their own retreat and may tend to seek contact with the visitor.

Common animals are domesticated goats and sheep species, guinea pigs, rabbits, pot-bellied pigs and poultry.

Petting zoos are popular with children because they allow them direct contact with the animals.

First petting zoos were already set up in the 1930s, such as in the zoo of Leipzig and Munich. The concept but came later and goes back to the vets Wolfgang Salzert.

A special form is the touch pool. For example, Atlanta, Georgia, stingrays and bonnethead hammerhead sharks can be petted at the Georgia Aquarium. A touch pool exists in the Universeum in Gothenburg ( Sweden) and in the aquarium of the zoological garden in Berlin.