The Chemnitz Zoo (german: Tierpark Chemnitz) 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.
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in the city
Chemnitz in
Sachsen
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...
,
Germany
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.
The Zoo was opened in 1964, and has a thousand animals from two hundred species, living on . During the first decades, most species reflected the nature of the
Soviet Union
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, and later the zoo moved into breeding endangered species. In 2014, the Zoo had over 178,000 visitors.
In 2004, a lion wounded a female zookeeper, and in 2006 another female zookeeper was killed by a
leopard. After the female Amur tiger died in the fall of 2016, the male lived alone in the tiger enclosure. In December 2017, a second Amur tiger, from Nuremberg Zoo, moved into the facility. However, the already 19-year-old Jantar was euthanized just a few weeks later.
''Tierpark Chemnitz: Tiger Jantar musste erlöst werden.''
Pressemitteilung 57 der Stadt Chemnitz vom 24. Januar 2018.
Literature
* Anja Dube et al.: ''50 Jahre Tierpark Chemnitz.'' Kommunikation & Design Verlag, Lugau 2014, .
See also
* List of zoos in Germany
References
External links
*
Chemnitz Zoo at Zoo-Infos.de (in English)
Zoos in Germany
Zoos established in 1964
Zoological Garden
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 zool ...
Zoological Garden
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 zool ...
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