Prague Zoo
Main entrance of the zoo
Prague Zoo (Zoo Praha) is the largest zoo in the Czech Republic. He opened relatively late, on September 28, 1931, later than other zoos in the Czech Republic. It is located in Troy Valley on the Vltava River, in an area that is valuable in geological and cultural terms, and from the perspective of nature conservation.
Covering an area of 60 hectares ( 42 acres exhibitions form of it) it is located in a landscape that is traversed by natural rivers and streams. The park currently live 4804 animals of more than 696 species. The zoo features typical visitor attractions, such as elephants, big cats ( Siberian tigers, Asian lions, Amur leopards, clouded leopards, and cheetahs), Eurasian wolves and polar bears. Striped hyenas, sun bears and numerous ungulate species rarely seen, such as West Caucasian ibex, Himalayan Tahre, lowland Anoas, Burma - gurdy deer, Kiang, Kulans and white neck - Moorantilopen also deserve mention. The newest and most modern plants are the. For the giant turtles and gorillas and the African House for aardvark, warthog and other African species Other rare species in the Zoo Prague Malaysia Tiger, Blue Iguana, and even Lear's Macaw. Attached is an extremely spacious open-air enclosure for Rotschildgiraffen, plains zebras and African antelope species. On November 29, 2004 was one of the biggest project in the history of Czech zoo, an artificial Indonesian rainforest, among other things, pig-tailed macaques and orangutans, was opened. 2010, a new, larger facility was built for Asian elephants, hippos, sable antelope and bongos. In the Prague Zoo, the largest group of Gangesgavialen lives in Europe, one of the rarest vertebrate animals of the earth, for this purpose a building was erected in 2008.
On August 13, 2002, there was a severe flood in Prague. About 1,000 animals were brought to safety before the approaching water masses, 50 animals were released. Nevertheless, 134 animals died in the floods, including the Asian elephant bull Kadira. International press attention gained the sea lion Gaston, who swam across the Vltava and Elbe into Germany, but died during the return journey to Prague.
Probably the most important achievement of the Prague zoo is its contribution to saving the Przewalski horse.
In 2005, received in the Czech Republic ( and also abroad) of the newborn gorilla Moja attention, what happens in the gorilla pavilion could be observed via the Internet.
Directors of the Prague Zoo
- Jiří Janda (28 September 1931-25. August 1938 )
- Václav January Staněk (26 August 1938-31. October 1939 )
- January Vlasák (1 November 1939-16. July 1946 )
- Jaroslav Wolf (6 June 1945-18 July 1945; . Than provisional administrator or " národní správce " )
- František Daneš (1 August 1946-30. April 1947 )
- Antonín Turek (1 May 1947-28. February 1948 )
- Karel Ješátko (1 March 1948-31. July 1948 )
- Otakar Stepanek (1 August 1948-28. February 1949 )
- Zdeněk Jaroš (1 March 1949-28. March 1949 )
- Cyril Purkyně (29 March 1949-30. June 1959 )
- Zdeněk Veselovský (July 1, 1959-31. December 1988)
- Miloslav Kalaš (1 January 1989-28. February 1990)
- Jiří Felix (25 January 1990-15. June 1990)
- Bohumil Král (15 June 1990-3. June 1997)
- Petr Fejk (. Since June 4 1997-31 December 2009)
- Miroslav Bobek (since 1 January 2010)