Guangzhou Zoo

Guangzhou Zoo

Guangzhou Zoo is located in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou city. It is adjacent to the 19th Route Army cemetery in the East, Huanshi East Road in the south, Yunhe road in the West and Xianlie middle road in the north. There are two entrances and exits, South Gate and north gate, both of which are equipped with parking lots. It was built and opened in 1958, covering an area of 42 hectares. In 2013, it received 4 million tourists.

Guangzhou Zoo has more than 450 species of mammals, reptiles, birds, fish and other animals selected from all over the country and the world (in 2013), with more than 4500 heads (animals), many of which are rare animals in the world. There are 35 species of national first class key protected animals, such as giant panda, golden monkey and black necked Crane, and 32 species of national second class key protected animals, such as red panda and white naped crane.

Guangzhou Zoo is also a garden for plant exhibition. There are more than 200 kinds of trees planted in the whole garden, and more than 100000 trees (in 2013).

Historical development

The predecessor of Guangzhou Zoo is Yonghan Park, which was established by the national government in 1928 on Zhongshan 4th Road, Guangzhou. It covers an area of 2.2 hectares and exhibits more than 60 species and 200 animals.

In 1950, Yonghan Park was renamed people's Park (now Guangzhou Children's Park).

It was officially named Guangzhou Zoo in May 1955.

In July 1956, mayinggang in Xianlie road was requisitioned as the new site of the zoo.

In October 1958, the new site was completed and opened.

Since 2006, the park has been recognized as Guangzhou science popularization education base, Guangdong Youth Science and technology education base and National Youth Science and technology education base.

In 2007, Guangzhou participated in the national science popularization day.

In 2009, the Guangzhou municipal government wanted to move the zoo to Maofeng mountain, but it failed to do so due to the high cost of relocation and the public's opposition.

In August 2014, Guangzhou Zoo completed the upgrading design, with a total investment of 81.53 million yuan.

Park layout

From the south gate to the East, Guangzhou Zoo has science museum, amusement park and animal training performance field. From the north gate to the East, there are butterfly museum, aquarium, veterinary hospital, science and education building, Panlong garden, science popularization gallery and fun garden. Near the west, there are Jinlin garden and bird view. The animal square is located in the central area of Guangzhou Zoo.

Animal house

Orangutan house

Located at the entrance to the north gate of Guangzhou Zoo, the chimpanzee pavilion was officially constructed in March 2006 and opened at the end of the year. The original orangutan hall has only a few old iron cage exhibition cages, and the area is relatively small. The new orangutan hall covers an area of about 3000 square meters, including a garden sports ground of 2000 square meters. The exhibition area is divided into two parts: the indoor glass exhibition hall and the outdoor exhibition hall. On the first floor of the indoor exhibition hall, there are eight animal air conditioning rest rooms and two glass exhibition halls that can "zero distance" observe orangutans, and the materials are thickened four The second floor observation platform provides visitors with a new perspective to observe the living habits of animals at high altitude. The main facade of the landscape adopts the large-scale stone mountain cliff waterfall as the main scene, configures the primitive mountain forest type climbing plants, sets up the log shed habitat frame and so on, and creates an ecological and natural habitat for orangutans. The garden style animal playground is isolated in the form of trench and power grid, and the animal display is integrated with the landscape to form a rich ecological landscape. After the completion of the orangutan Museum, it has become a new sign of the landscape at the entrance of the north gate. The project was rated as "excellent scenic spot" in the 2006 Guangzhou park management "cotton cup" labor competition.

Kangaroo house

Kangaroo hall is located in the zoo next to the animal square. Kangaroo hall design uses the latest design techniques, strengthens the garden characteristic layout in the cage, and according to the characteristics of animals, builds wooden plank road on the animal playground, uses glass railings, so that tourists can easily watch the animals in the area. The green layout inside and outside the sports ground, increase the roof greening, this kind of natural decoration makes the cage house ecological characteristics more prominent. The museum was rebuilt in 2006 and has been opened to the public.

Insect Museum

The insect museum is located in the butterfly museum. It was built in 2004 and displays more than ten kinds of insects, such as bees, mantis, ants and beetles.

Bird exhibition area

Located in the central and western part of the park, the bird grand view, a bird exhibition site covering an area of about 8000 square meters, was completed and fully opened on May 1, 2006. The total investment of the project is about 3 million yuan. The whole project is divided into two phases: the first phase is the infrastructure construction of ostrich area and stocking area; the second phase is the construction of exhibition cage, wooden plank road and ecological greening layout of stocking area.

Marine Museum

Guangzhou aquarium, located in Guangzhou Zoo, has been open to tourists since 1997. It is a multi-functional large-scale high-tech exhibition hall integrating recreation, viewing, scientific research and education. It is characterized by the exhibition of marine fish. Covering an area of about 13000 square meters, it is the "national science popularization education base", "Guangdong Youth Science and technology education base" and "Guangdong Youth Science and technology education base" Marine science popularization education base.

Covering an area of 15000 square meters, the aquarium houses more than 200 kinds of fish and other marine life. The museum displays the ocean world in various areas, including: undersea tunnel, deep-sea wonders, seaweed tank, treasure tank, tropical rain forest, touch pool, shark pool, turtle pool, Penguin hall, science hall, Ocean theater, sea lion paradise and ocean square. These exhibition areas are planned and arranged according to the ecological environment, living habits, species and varieties of different marine organisms, greatly improving the environment There are hundreds of species of marine life from all over the world in the small tank.

Other facilities

goldfishes

Jinlin garden is located next to the horse pool in the inner river of the zoo. There are nearly 100 species of valuable fish from all over the world, with more than 10000 fish. You can also enjoy fishing and lobster fishing in the garden. It's a paradise for children's innocence. "Jin Lin Yuan" won the Guinness title of the world.

Butterfly House

Located in the northeast of Guangzhou Zoo, the Butterfly Museum covers a total area of 1250 square meters, including ecological butterfly garden, butterfly specimen museum (including butterfly specimens, butterfly science popularization and characteristic Butterfly Art Exhibition), living shell and specimen museum (including living coral, shell, starfish and other invertebrate display boxes and colorful shell specimens), it is the most distinctive ecological butterfly garden in China.

Animal behavior exhibition hall

The lion, tiger, bear, monkey, goat, dog, horse and other animals perform various wonderful acrobatics under the command of the trainer.

Dinosaur world

The Jurassic dinosaur world, based on some achievements of contemporary dinosaur research and modern science and technology, presents a dinosaur world to the audience. Give the audience scientific enlightenment.

Excellent Lawns

Excellent lawn is located on the hillside at the foot of monkey mountain, which is all made of big leaf oil grass. In the center, colored plants are used to build the emblem of Guangzhou Zoo. It was rated as excellent lawn by Guangzhou municipal garden Bureau.

Lake Scenery

There are three lakes in the middle of Guangzhou Zoo. There are fountains in the lake, small islands inhabited by animals, and many wild birds on the lake. Swim around freely. There are pavilions and pavilions along the lake with beautiful scenery.

Characteristic animal

Asian elephant

Yilong, a female Asian elephant, was presented to Guangzhou Children by Ho Chi Minh, the former leader of Vietnam, in 1960. She was 21 years old when she entered the park. After coming to Guangzhou Zoo, he joined with Babao, an Asian elephant that entered the park in 1959, and bred four Asian elephants. Among them, two sons, Baolong (born on April 25, 1976) and Yuelong (born on November 5, 1980), have been on exhibition in the park till now. In 2008, Zhongyuan introduced a female Asian elephant "manling" from Hainan Province to breed with Baolong and Yuelong brothers.

White rhinoceros, African elephant

In 1979, Guangzhou Zoo introduced a pair of rhinoceros from San Diego Zoo, named Taishan and Huashan. His wife Huashan died in September 2007 at the age of 34. His husband Taishan, 35, has been living in Guangzhou Zoo and is a famous old birthday star in the park. On November 4, 1984, the park introduced a pair of African elephants from San Diego Zoo. Ha Hua (male) died in 2008, and ha Wei (female) has been on display in Xiangshan since.

Papio hamadryas

Frankfurt, Germany, is one of the friendly cities of Guangzhou. In 1995, Frankfurt presented 15 baboons to Guangzhou citizens.

chimpanzee

On February 1, 2002, Guangzhou Zoo introduced a chimpanzee (male) named David from Liberec zoo in Czech Republic through animal exchange. In 2004, she and chimpanzee mother "black girl" gave birth to her daughter "Yingya".

Hippo

Fukuoka is the first friendly city of Guangzhou. On October 1, 2003, Kanta, a male Hippo from Fukuoka zoo, Japan, settled in Guangzhou Zoo. This hippo was born in February

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