Kaiserslautern Zoo, Animal park in Siegelbach, Germany.

Kaiserslautern Zoo covers seven hectares in the Siegelbach district and holds around 112 species with more than 500 individual animals. Its layout mixes walk-through enclosures, such as the 1,100-square-metre lemur area opened in 2016, with a tropical house where sloths move freely above visitors' heads, a savannah yard for zebras, ostriches and eland, and a falconry.

The zoo opened on 15 June 1968 as Tierpark Siegelbach, when Siegelbach was still an independent municipality; it began with 41 mammals and 26 birds, including a lion named Simba and a chimpanzee named Bimbo. After Siegelbach became part of Kaiserslautern in 1969, the city invested 1.1 million marks, and the zoo reopened in 1974 under Roland Schneider. In 2003 it passed from city ownership to Zoo-Gesellschaft Kaiserslautern mbH, and in 2016 a 1,100-square-metre walk-through lemur enclosure opened.

The zoo's name changed in 2003, when the Tierpark Siegelbach became Zoo Kaiserslautern under a city-owned company. Its emblem changed too: after the Siberian tiger Igor died in 2014, the zoo dropped big cats and made a ring-tailed lemur its mascot for the 2018 jubilee. The walk-through lemur enclosure, opened in 2016, holds nine ring-tailed lemurs from the Wels zoo near Linz, plus a pair of white storks nesting there.

The zoo lies in the Siegelbach district, about 7 hectares in size, with plans to expand to 16 hectares. The grounds are entered through a main entrance where a group of Asian small-clawed otters is kept, with a walk-through Bennett's kangaroo enclosure opposite. The site is flat and laid out along paths linking the entrance area, petting zoo, lemur enclosure, savanna, tropical house and falconry.

A nature trail winds through the grounds and shows how different animals live in their original environments, going beyond the usual zoo visit. It is designed to help visitors picture the wild settings these animals come from, rather than just watching them in an enclosure.