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.

The yellow eyelash viper snakelets are easy to spot in their enclosure. Photo: Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

Four have inherited their mother’s yellow colouring, but one is green and pink from their father. The young of the venomous eyelash vipers can now be seen at Prague Zoo’s Feline and Reptile House. They are on display in what is literally a terrarium within a terrarium – in a mini-exhibition located inside the terrarium for...

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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