Taipei Zoo

Taipei municipal zoo (also known as "Muzha zoo") is subordinate to the Education Bureau of Taipei municipal government. There are seven indoor exhibition halls in the park, in which you can see Taiwan's unique butterflies in the "insect museum"; the "koala Museum" and "Penguin Museum" are among the most popular exhibition halls; and two big pandas from the mainland are popular animal stars in the park. Surrounded by natural secondary forest land, the park is a leisure place with ecological characteristics combined with natural landscape.

Taipei Zoo

synonym

Taipei City Zoo generally refers to Taipei Zoo

Taipei Zoo, also known as Mucha zoo and Taipei municipal zoo, was established in 1915. It was originally located in Yuanshan, Taipei. In 1986, it was moved to Mucha, Wenshan District, Taipei (No. 30, Section 2, Xinguang Road, Wenshan District, Taipei). It is subordinate to the Taipei Municipal Bureau of education. Covering an area of about 165 square meters, the park is known as "the largest zoo in Asia". It includes 8 outdoor exhibition areas, 6 indoor exhibition halls and 5 teaching places for environmental education. The whole park is surrounded by secondary forest hillside, which is a leisure place with ecological characteristics combined with natural landscape. "Maokong" is a nearby scenic spot of Taipei Zoo, and the cable car station is beside the MRT station.

Practical information

Ticket information

NT $60 (half price with student ID)

Opening Hours

9: 00-17:00 (summer open night garden activities)

Best season

All seasons

Suggest playing

2-3 hours

introduce

The biggest feature of Taipei Zoo is that it adopts the "geo ecological display method" in the layout of the exhibition environment. It is arranged in the new environment according to the original living environment of animals, so that the animals can get rid of the shackles of iron cages, have free space for activities, and create the living environment closest to the original place of animals, so that the animals do not have to change their living habits, and the tourists can understand the animals better Things. It also has children's playground and picnic area. It is a zoo with education, research, protection and entertainment functions. In 1986, rolling stone records collected powerful singers such as Qi Yu, Huang Yunling, Li Zongsheng, pan yueyun, Zhou Huajian and Zhang Aijia to record a "Happy Paradise" and released a record of the same name, just to commemorate the zoo's move.

Characteristics of the park

There are Taiwan native animal area, African animal area, desert animal area, Australian animal area, Butterfly Park, gibbon island area, waterfowl area, children's animal area, Asian tropical rainforest area, temperate zone area and other animal areas outside the park; there are nocturnal animal museum, polar Animal Museum, butterfly museum, Penguin Museum, koala Museum, insect museum, aquarium and other animal areas inside the park; there are 300 kinds of animals and 3000 animals On the right, there are many rare and exotic animals, which make people's eyes wide open. All the barns are naturalized. By using the gap barrier method, the undulating terrain makes the animals free from the shackles of the cage and have more free space for activities. Especially in the layout of the environment, the most advanced geographical and ecological display method is adopted. Animals can have homes very similar to their native places, and visitors can also obtain complete ecological knowledge. The tropical rainforest of Asia is a humid and rainy dense forest, in which the treasures are Asian elephant, Malay tapir, Malay alligator, reticulated python, Bengal tiger, leopard, etc.; in temperate zone, there are many endangered animals, such as Przewalski's wild horse, bison, beaver, etc.; the lovable koala lives in the children's animal zone, while the black footed penguin lives in the temperate forest zone of polar Pavilion. In the vast African animal region, there are wild animals such as hippos, African elephants, and rhinoceros rhinoceros; in the night animal hall controlled by light, there are more than 50 kinds of night animals such as brown forest owl and civet; in the big bird garden, there are colorful exotic birds in the world, which are dazzling.

Main exhibition areas

Children's Zoo

It was opened in November 2004. It was transformed from the original lovely animal area. It is designed for the natural teaching of primary and secondary school students. It mainly focuses on wetland and countryside ecological landscape such as ponds and paddy fields. It is composed of "field ecological exhibition area", "local rural ecological exhibition area", "farm animal exhibition area" and "pet owner classroom". It points out the close relationship between human and animals and provides a common experience and learning space for children, parents and teachers.

Taiwan native fauna

The exhibition shows the protozoa and their habitats in Taiwan, and simulates the ecological environment of their original habitats. Well known animals include Chinese Pangolin (Taiwan subspecies), sika deer, Taiwan black bear, Taiwan macaque, Taiwan Mountain Qiang (yellow muntjac), Taiwan wild boar, white nosed heart (fruit civet), red bellied squirrel, otter, Taiwan long maned goat (Taiwan gazelle), great crested Eagle (snake Eagle), and civet (kitten). More than 20 species of native wild animals are displayed. They are famous for their high proportion of endemic species in Taiwan and Asian species. Among them, there are many rare species, such as clouded leopard, blue bellied pheasant, sika deer, etc.

Tropical rainforest region of Asia

Completed in 1998, it simulates the ecological landscape of tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia. According to the exhibition route, it is planned to be three exhibition areas of estuarine ecology, dense forest ecology and forest edge ecology. It is the first ecological exhibition site with both rainforest landscape and living animals on the island. Well known animals include Malay alligator, Borneo orangutan, gibbon, Bengal tiger, etc.

Elephant Star: Asian elephant Lin Wang entered the park in 1954 and died on February 26, 2003 at the age of 86. Lin Wang's wife, Asian elephant Malan, entered the park in 1952 and died on October 14, 2002 at the age of 54. There are two female Asian elephants in the park.

Desert animal region

Palm trees swaying in the wind are used to simulate the tropical desert environment in the Middle East, showing the most representative desert animals, such as camels and camels, as well as African wild ass, gazelle, bowhorn antelope and gazelle.

Australian zoological zone

Show the special ecological environment and animals in Australia. Many unique eucalyptus trees are planted in this area. Show the big grey kangaroo only distributed in Australia and the second and third largest walking birds in the world EMU and Turkey. Kangaroo is the most distinctive representative of the District, showing up to six species.

African fauna

In order to simulate the ecological environment of African grassland, the exhibition is mainly of medium and large animals, and most of them are displayed in mixed groups. The tree shade and shrub near the pond are used to simulate the animal gathering situation in the East African savannah. There are several endangered and rare species listed in the Washington Convention and subject to international trade control, including African elephant, zebra, Chapman zebra, hippo, giraffe, rhinoceros, mountain gazelle, western lowland gorilla, chimpanzee, East African baboon, red monkey, African lion, spotted hyena, etc.

Lion Star: Lion Zhong, an African lion, was originally kept by the Royal circus. He was abandoned when he toured Taiwan in 1990 and was taken in by Taipei Zoo the next year. He spent 16 years in the zoo. He died on April 22, 2007 at the age of 26 because he had long been trained by the circus and was docile and obedient.

Temperate fauna

This area mainly displays the animals inhabiting in temperate grassland and forest, including Przewalski wild horse, bison, grizzly bear, Asian black bear, puma, Eurasian lynx, beaver, otter, raccoon, red panda, etc. Among them, proctor's Mustang and bison are all large animals that have disappeared in the wild for a long time.

Bird Park

Located in the southeast of the zoo, it covers an area of about 4 hectares, including bird morphology area, pheasant and rare bird area, crane garden, parrot house, ecological bird garden and waterfowl area, displaying about 140 species of birds. Famous animals include the emperor pheasant, the big eye pheasant, the big crested pheasant, the red paradise bird, the nicobalius, the yellow croaker owl, the brown forest owl, the chestnut kite and so on.

Other exhibition areas

Waterfowl observation area: it is a lake to attract many birds to migrate, transit or settle down.

Wetland ecological park: a complete display of wetland ecosystem.

Insect exploration Valley: it is a natural Valley suitable for observing natural ecology.

Indoor exhibition hall

Amphibians and reptiles Museum

The museum is divided into four categories: wetland, tropical rain forest, temperate forest and desert. In addition to simulating habitat, the museum also plans graphic education and specimen interpretation on the themes of "evolution", "morphology and structure", "Habitat", "behavior", "life history", "diversity", "two climbs and people", "conservation", "Beware of poisonous snakes", and pays attention to the collection of native species, and launches a series of special exhibitions with Taiwan as the theme. The species include Chinese alligator, Annam turtle, yadabela elephant turtle, Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, reticulated python, green tree python, Yaoshan crocodile lizard, Kaimen crocodile lizard, plain giant lizard, Rhinoceros Iguana, etc.

Night Animal Museum (closed)

The nocturnal animal museum opened in 1989. The use of light control to create a dark environment, so that visitors can observe and appreciate the life of nocturnal animals. The exhibition area of the museum has two floors. In the exhibition hall on the first floor, small primates such as owl, chipmunk, giant water rat, white nosed heart, four cats, Honey Bear, raccoon and other small cats can be observed. On the second floor, cartilaginous fish, bony fish, Gemini, reptiles, birds, marsupials, and meadows are the main species. In the second half of the floor, there are still displays of native freshwater fish and ancient fish in Taiwan streams.

Koala house

Gold Coast, Australia, August 1999

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