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Official Description If you work for this zoo – please send us: A description of the zoo (100 – 1,000 words or so) / Admission prices and opening times and zoo size (hectares or acres) Address, telephone, email, web site,/ How to find you / An electronic copy of your logo / A summary of the number of species and animals (see table to the left) / A complete species list (common names and latin names please)
Visitor Reviews This review submitted by Ronny Deckers,
January 2001 Antwerp Zoo is a typical “urban” Zoo. Major problem is limited space and zero possibility of growth. Therefore a more spacious facility excist about 30 km to the south at Plankendael animalpark. At Antwerp, great effort has (and still are) being made to move from the ancient collection of animals, to a modern facility, where every species gets the space and accomodation it needs. This means of course, less species, but larger enclosures with more animals of every sort shown.Proof that this strategy works, is the great breeding succes, that we see every year. Last year, a new elephant enclosure, became the latest adition. Our Zoo is best know for its breeding-succeses with species from the Kongo (a former colony of Belgium) We hold the studbook for the okapi (Okapi johnstoni), Congo peacock (Afropavo congensis) and the bonobo (Pan troglodytes verus). More then 75% of every okapi in captivity worldwide has Antwerp blood. So if you ever are in the neighbourhood, do pay it a visit. It will prove well worth it. After all. between 90,0000 and 1 million people do so every year. Submit a review. [Click Here] Please note: The Star ratings can only be awarded by a Good Zoo Guide Official Visit. You can request one by email to [email protected]
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