About zoo

About zoo
In recent days, it is the ruffed lemurs rather than visitors that have been relaxing on the benches. While ring-tailed lemurs most often bask sitting upright, ruffed lemurs adopt a variety of positions. Photo: Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

A new environment, unfamiliar scents and sounds—and, above all, unknown neighbours. White-belted ruffed lemurs, which are among the largest and most vocal of all lemurs, settled into their new home surprisingly quickly. Visitors to Prague Zoo previously saw them opposite the giant tortoises; today they share the walk-through...

History

The history of Prague Zoo goes all the way back to the year 1881, when, on the occasion of the wedding of Crown Prince Rudolf and Princess Stephanie of Belgium, Count Sweerts-Sporck published an open letter in the newspapers calling for the establishment of a zoological garden in Prague.


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