Benxi Zoo

Benxi Zoo

synonym

Benxi zoo generally refers to Benxi zoo

Benxi animal and botanical garden is located in the northwest of Pingdingshan mountain, covering an area of 51.37 hectares. It has lush trees, rolling hills and more than 40 kinds of more than 1000 animals. It is a 3A level scenic spot integrating popular science education, animal and plant appreciation and tourism.

geographical position

Introduction to the park

After seven years of construction, the zoo has formed a delicate, compact, small and exquisite original ecological landscape features with the gardening techniques of depending on the mountain, following the shape and nature. The overall layout of the park is divided into animal viewing area, plant viewing area and leisure and entertainment area. There are 16 animal exhibition areas in the animal viewing area, such as the animal museum, songbird Museum, waterfowl Museum, peacock Museum, crawling Museum, deer garden, Australian Animal Museum, etc., with more than 60 species and more than 1000 animals. The scenic spots in the plant viewing area and the leisure and entertainment area are dynamic and static, with different styles: the largest peony garden in Northeast China, with 15000 peonies planted, blossoms in May, and visitors like weaving. It has the reputation of Liaodong peony competition in Luoyang, which makes photography and art enthusiasts come in droves to collect photos; more than 150 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines in Baicao garden are arranged in an orderly way, which can watch flowers, enjoy fruits and smell herbs; the corner of love makes full use of the original resources It is built on the terrain, which makes tourists feel like returning to nature. In addition, more than 10 scenic spots such as red orchard, Apricot Garden and Sijing garden are unique and beautiful.

Ticket Price

Adult ticket: 30 yuan / person;

Children under 1.3 meters in height can enter the kindergarten free of charge;

Retired cadres, active servicemen, the disabled and the elderly over 70 years old can enter the park free of charge with valid certificates.

A brief history of zoos

The predecessor of Benxi zoo is Pingdingshan orchard.

In 2000, the city government planned to build the Northeast monkey garden in Pingdingshan orchard.

In 2002, the Northeast Monkey Park was renamed Benxi zoo.

On September 30, 2007, the zoo opened to the public.

In 2008, the rental exhibition of the elephant "Xu Menken" was welcomed by tourists.

In 2010, the national treasure giant panda "Shishi" was rented and exhibited.

In 2012, the chimpanzee "Yiyao" was rented and exhibited, which is famous for its intelligence all over the country.

In 2014, the seal star "Benben" participated in the TV variety show "green shade guess"

Peony Garden

Peony, a traditional Chinese rare flower, is elegant, magnificent and fragrant. It has been known as "national flower" since ancient times. Its ornamental planting has a history of 2000 years.

Peony Garden in our city was built in the autumn of 2006, with 700 peonies and more than 2000 peonies. In the spring of the next year, more than 2700 flowers bloomed as scheduled. Although the plants were young and small, it was rare to see open peony in Benxi. After another year's careful management and protection, peony and peony are big, colorful and fragrant in the blooming season. The peony garden, which has been expanded twice in 2009 and 2012, has now been completed, covering an area of 15000 square meters. There are nearly 15000 peonies of 100 species, such as zilankui, Huhong and shanhutai, and 3000 peonies of 10 species, such as fenyunu and zifurong. In the middle and late May of each year, tens of thousands of peonies and peonies are colorful and colorful, attracting tourists from all over the world to watch and forget to return. Some photographers and art lovers are even more eager to take the lead.

At present, Benxi animal and botanical garden has become the largest peony planting area in Northeast China.

Main animals

At present, the zoo has a total of more than 800 animals of 46 species, including more than 40 first-class national protected animals such as Amur tiger, leopard, Red Crowned Crane, sika deer and yak. Second class national protected animals include African lion, spotted seal, prairie wolf, brown bear, alpaca, ostrich, EMU, Macaw and Demoiselle Crane. African and Australian animals are: chimpanzees, baboons, ring tailed lemurs, black cap hanging monkeys, white browed monkeys, kangaroos and so on.

Scenery

Plant landscape

Address: No.3 Huanshan Road, Pingshan District, Benxi City, Liaoning Province

Longitude: 123.786821

Latitude: 41.283938

Tel: 0414-2220338

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