Zoologischer Garten Eberswalde, Animal park in Eberswalde, Germany.
Zoologischer Garten Eberswalde covers about 15 hectares in woodland on the southern edge of Eberswalde, around 40 km northeast of Berlin. It keeps roughly 1,500 animals of 140 species from five continents, the second-largest zoo in Brandenburg. Several primate species, including white-headed lemurs, common marmosets and ring-tailed lemurs, roam the whole grounds without separate enclosures. A path leads through a tunnel into a fully glazed cave for viewing the lions, among them a white lion.
A public animal park opened on this site in 1928, on the grounds of an earlier leisure park, and showed native wildlife; an artificial waterfall was already an attraction. It was run by an excursion restaurant and destroyed in the Second World War. In 1958, during the GDR era, the zoo was rebuilt on a larger scale with more animals. After German reunification it grew again, with a modern playground and a zoo museum.
The zoo's name recalls its GDR-era past as Tierpark Eberswalde before it became Zoologischer Garten. Since 2006 the charity cycle event Tigerradtour has raised funds for the zoo, collecting 55,000 euros in 2021. Primates such as white-headed lemurs, marmosets and ring-tailed lemurs roam the whole grounds without separate enclosures.
The zoo lies in woodland on the southern edge of Eberswalde, about 40 km northeast of Berlin. A 4-metre-high treetop path of robinia wood, opened in July 2021, crosses the valley where wolves and fallow deer are kept. Primates such as white-headed lemurs, marmosets and ring-tailed lemurs roam the whole grounds without separate enclosures, so watch for them on the paths.
The facility includes specially designed enclosures such as an ice-age landscape created for Amur tigers. This design shows how contemporary zoos attempt to recreate natural habitats while applying scientific principles.
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