Prague Zoo at EXPO

Prague Zoo at EXPO

Prague Zoo has the unique opportunity this year to participate in the EXPO 2015 world’s fair taking place in Milan, Italy. The aim of Prague Zoo’s presentation at the fair is to introduce itself to the world and, at the same time, demonstrate the relevance of the modern zoo.

People most often see the Chacoan peccaries as they bask in the sun in their enclosure in the Plains exhibit. Photo Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

For the first time in the zoo’s history, Prague Zoo’s visitors can see Chacoan peccary triplets. By the seventies it was thought that, due to deforestation, they had become extinct. In fact only prehistoric specimens could be seen. Today, there are just a few thousand of them surviving in their South American homeland. Which...

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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