Drakenstein Lion Park is a
zoo
A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.
The term ''zoological garden'' refers to zoo ...
logical park in
Drakenstein
The Drakenstein mountain opposite Simonsberg Mountain named after ex military man and Colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein is part of the Cape Fold Belt and are in the Western Cape pro ...
,
Western Cape
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,
South Africa
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. It was established in 1998 to keep
lions which could not be rehabilitated into the
wilderness,
and was meant to replace the now-defunct
Tygerberg Zoo,
which housed possible descendants of the
Cape lion, amongst other
animal
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s. Other animals included
chimpanzees and
tiger
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s, including from
Novosibirsk Zoo
The Novosibirsk Zoo named after Rostislav Alexandrovich Shilo (russian: Новосибирский зоопарк имени Ростислава Александровича Шило) is a scientific institution as well as a popular tourist attra ...
, from where Tygerberg's director John Spence managed to obtain his lions.
[ (with 2-minute video of cubs at zoo with John Spence, 3 sound-bites, and 15 photos)]
See also
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Addis Ababa Lion Zoo
Addis Ababa Zoo(Amharic: አንበሳ ጊቢ, Romanization, romanized: änəbäsa gibi Literal translation, lit. 'lion compound') is a zoo, zoological park in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
History
The zoo was founded in 1948 by Emperor of Ethiopia, ...
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Rabat Zoo
Rabat Zoo ( ar, حَدِيْقَة ٱلْحَيْوَانَات بِٱلرِّبَاط, Ḥadīqat al-Ḥaywānāt bir-Ribāṭ ("Zoological Garden in Rabat"), ("The National Park for Animals in Rabat"); french: Jardin Zoologique de Rabat), also ...
References
External links
Drakenstein Lion Park Cape Town South Africa
Drakenstein
Zoos in South Africa
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