Tallinn Zoo

Zoo Tallinn (Estonian Tallinna Loomaaed ) is the only zoo in Estonia.

The zoo was established on 25 August 1939. Two years earlier, won a group of Estonian marksmen at the World Championships in Helsinki not only to establish the so-called Argentina Cup, but also a lynx, which became the occasion a zoo. The importance of the lynx for the Tallinn Zoo can be seen from the fact that the lynx is the heraldic animal of the zoo today. All lynx in Tallinn Zoo are descendants of the first lynx from Helsinki.

In the early 1980s he moved out of the center on a former military base on the outskirts of the city.

In 1989, the Zoo, the first zoo in the Soviet Union, a member of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums ( WAZA ). Already ten years earlier was one sustaining member of the American Zoo & Aquarium Association.

Director of the zoo is currently Mati Kaal. Currently, about 3700 animals are kept in 360 species on a 88.6 acre site.

In the year 2010 308.253 people visited the Tallinn Zoo.

Breeding program

According to the company lynx, mountain goats, sheep, eagles, vultures and cranes are the main breeding areas. Also a flock of over 100 David deer provides numerous offspring, which is partially reintroduced in China.

Mid-1990 the first successful breeding of a European mink (one of the rarest mammals in Europe) in captivity. Since then throw the Nerzweibchen year per seven to ten Nachzüchtungen that are partially reintroduced in Estonia.

In 2006, a special enclosure for Amur leopards was opened, the conception of which was created by employees of the zoo Rotterdam, and in June 2008, three pups were born.

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