Zürich Zoologischer Garten

{{Short description|Zoo in Zurich}}

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|zoo_name = Zoo Zurich

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|image = ZooZürich Eingang.jpg

|image_caption = Entrance

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|location = Zurich, Switzerland

|date_opened = 1929

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|area =27 ha / 0.1 sq mi

|num_species = 375 (2016)

|num_animals = 4673 (2016)

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|annual_visitors =1.2 Million (2016)

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The Zoo Zurich is a zoo located in Zurich, Switzerland. Opened in 1929, it is the third oldest zoo in Switzerland (after Basel and Arth-Goldau) and it accumulated a collection of 2,200 specimens of 300 species by its seventy-fifth year. It is located on Zürichbergstrasse, on the lower reaches of the Zürichberg in the Fluntern quarter.

The zoologist Heini Hediger was director of the Zurich Zoo from 1954 to 1973. The current director is Severin Dressen.{{Cite news|date=2020-07-05|title=Tiger kills Zurich zookeeper in front of visitors|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53294245|access-date=2020-07-05}} The zoo is member of WAZA and the EAZA.

The most famous attractions are the Asian elephant exhibit and Masoala Hall, which are inside of a large dome. They are also known as the only and first European institution to successfully breed Galápagos tortoises. Over the course of the years, the Zurich attraction has sent the baby tortoises to more than two dozen other zoos.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/giant-galapagos-tortoise-has-9-hatchlings-aged-80-n572626|title=80-Year-Old Tortoise Has Babies With Boy Toy|website=NBC News|date=12 May 2016 |language=en|access-date=2019-01-06}} In 2005 the zoo discovered that the seven lemurs caught in Andasibe thought to be mouse lemurs were actually a new species later named Goodman mouse lemur.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7818-madagascar-reveals-two-new-species-of-lemur/|title=Madagascar reveals two new species of lemur|last=Hooper|first=Rowan|website=New Scientist|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-06}}

The zoo made international headlines in July 2020 when a Siberian tiger mauled a zookeeper to death in front of members of the public.{{Cite web|agency=Associated Press|date=2020-07-04|title=Keeper killed by Siberian tiger in Zurich zoo|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/04/keeper-killed-by-siberian-tiger-in-zurich-zoo|access-date=2020-07-05|website=the Guardian|language=en}}