Qingdao Zoo

Qingdao Zoo began to build animal cages in 1915, and formed a small zoo in the 1930s. By the early 1960s, it had a considerable scale. In 1977, another Qingdao zoo was built in the south of Taiping Shanxi Province. After 10 years, 18 animal houses with different styles, including ape hall, orangutan hall, monkey mountain, birdcage, songbird hall, Shihu mountain and children's pet garden, were gradually built, displaying more than 100 kinds of animals.

Qingdao Zoo

Qingdao zoo, originally located in the south of Zhongshan Park in Qingdao, was built in 1915 and became a small zoo in 1930s. After continuous development, it had a considerable scale by the early 1960s. Qingdao zoo was officially established on September 1, 1977. Its predecessor is a garden in the garden of Zhongshan Park, and its history can be traced back to the early 20th century. In 1977, another Qingdao zoo was built in the south of Taiping Shanxi Province. After 10 years, 18 animal houses with different styles, including ape hall, orangutan hall, monkey mountain, birdcage, songbird hall, Shihu mountain and children's pet garden, were gradually built, displaying more than 100 kinds of animals.

Park scale

The zoo is adjacent to Taiping mountain in the East, Qingdao mountain in the west, Zhongshan Park in the South and residential area in the north. As of 2005, it covers an area of 313000 square meters, with 152 employees and 400000 annual visitors. As an important tourist attraction in Qingdao, it has attracted people's attention. At the most, the annual number of tourists can reach 1 million. Qingdao zoo has left a good memory for generations of Qingdao people.

Qingdao zoo has a vast space. In the dense hillside forest of 310000 square meters, animal halls (cages) with different buildings are scattered up and down, with unique shapes and close to the mountains. Between the exhibition areas, stone steps, cobble roads and stone paths are constructed along the terrain, which are connected with the main garden road. Make full use of the exhibition space, with a variety of flowers and trees, it has a sense of courtyard. In the combination of landscape architecture and murals, it also shows originality and makes a bold attempt. So that visitors can enjoy the beauty of the garden scenery while visiting rare birds and animals.

Development and evolution

Qingdao zoo was officially established on September 1, 1977. Its predecessor is a garden in the garden of Zhongshan Park, and its history can be traced back to the early 20th century.

Zhongshan Park period

Animal exhibition in Qingdao has a long history. In 1915, the Japanese colonial authorities set aside 30 mu of land on the southwest side of the plant testing ground (later Zhongshan Park), built a bear cage and a waterfowl cage, initially built a bear cage, two garden shaped monkey cages, a simple plum deer garden and a waterfowl cage for viewing. The animals on display include black bear, Guangxi monkey, Taiwan Monkey, sika deer, duck, goose, wild goose, crane, etc., which are part of the animal exhibition of "Xu Park" and the prototype of Qingdao zoo.

After the Beiyang government took back Qingdao, jiaoao commercial port agriculture and forestry office repaired the original bear cage and bird cage in 1923; in 1931, the agriculture and forestry office also repaired the above animal cage, adding two monkey cages and one deer shed fence at the same time. In 1933, a leopard cage of reinforced concrete structure was built with two leopards inside.

During Japan's second occupation of Qingdao, a stable was built in 1939 with a chrysanthemum green horse. On the wall of the stable, there are stone tablets in Chinese, Japanese and English characters to record the incident. In the same year, it was rated as "open source Shenjun" and one of the 24 townships in Qingdao. During the second reign of the Nanjing National Government, the parks were not well managed, the animal cages were in disrepair, and the animals were out of stock. There were few animals on display, and the specific number was not available. At that time, the Zhongshan Park was seriously damaged, and almost all the animals on display were destroyed. When Qingdao was liberated in June 1949, there were only bears, monkeys and deer in Zhongshan Park, and the cage area was less than 100 square meters.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, the animal exhibition in Zhongshan park developed. From the 1950s to the mid-1960s, with the government's investment, the Zoo began to form a large scale.

In the 1950s, the Zoo began to be renovated and expanded on its original site. In 1953, a wolf cage was built; in 1954, a tiger cage was built; in 1955, a peacock cage, a monkey cage and a bird comprehensive cage were built; in 1957, a lion cage was built, which was of wood structure and rebuilt into reinforced concrete structure in 1961; in 1962, an EMU cage was built; in 1963, a small animal cage was built. By 1966, there were 88 species of animals in Zhongshan Park, including more than 20 species of precious animals such as giant panda, red panda, golden monkey, lion, tiger, brown bear, EMU, Red Crowned Crane, red faced crane, pelican, sunflower parrot, Wren, Sichuan parrot and Hainan parrot.

The zoo is surrounded by thick wooden piles and bamboo poles. Hedges are planted around the fence, covering an area of more than 30 mu. There are two main roads in the park, one is Bitao Road, and the other is Meihua road. The zoo has three gates. The main gate is located in the west side of the entrance of the South Gate of Zhongshan Park. The whole gate is of wood structure, and plants are planted on the top of the gate. The other two doors are set at the East and West ends of Meihua road.

At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", the management of the park was chaotic, the development planning of the zoo was greatly hindered, and the normal animal management could not be implemented, resulting in the number of animal species falling to more than 60. A large number of precious animals such as giant panda, red panda, golden monkey, EMU, Wren, sunflower parrot and Hainan parrot have died one after another.

It recovered in the 1970s. In 1973, the wolf house was rebuilt; in the same year, Mr. Li Zuoji, a Hong Kong patriot, presented a white handed Gibbon to Zhongshan Park; in 1974, the deer garden and camel garden were rebuilt; since 1975, some precious animals such as black leaf monkey, flat top Monkey (Macaca mulatta), bear monkey and spotted hornbill have been introduced from Guangxi and other places. From 1976 to 1978, Mr. Li Zuoji successively presented chimpanzees (7 in total), baboons, mandrills, black swans and other precious animals. A pair of big grey kangaroos were introduced from Australia and raised in the temporary museum in the south of monkey mountain. Therefore, it is planned to build a new zoo area on the northern hillside of Zhongshan Park.

New site planning and construction period

The current site of Qingdao zoo is a slope land high in the north and low in the south, which was originally under the management of Zhongshan Park. Before the establishment of the park, the south section of Mingxia road to the north gate of Zhongshan Park was divided into East and west parts, with dense trees in the East and gentle slopes and open terrain in the West. There are scattered buildings in the southeast corner of Mingxia Road, which is the deer farm and animal feed storage place of Zhongshan Park.

In 1976, according to the needs of urban landscape development, the municipal landscape department proposed to move the Qingdao zoo to a medium scale on the basis of the original animal exhibition area of Zhongshan Park. With a planning area of 299700 square meters, it is divided into seven exhibition areas, namely, front area, songbird area, beast area, primate area, herbivore area, medium animal area, small animal area and amphibian area, with a total investment of 1.23 million yuan. In January 1977, the animal conservation group of Zhongshan Park was officially separated from Zhongshan Park. It built animal cages in the north of Zhongshan Park and moved animals one after another. Qingdao zoo, covering an area of 279000 square meters, was built.

In August 1977, it was examined and approved by Qingdao Urban Construction Bureau and named Qingdao zoo in September of the same year.

In 1977, according to the planning scheme approved by the Municipal Bureau of urban construction, the planning and design team of the municipal garden department learned from the design experience of the zoo in brother cities, combined with the geographical environment of Qingdao zoo, and the engineering team of the garden department carried out the construction. By 1988, except for the cancellation of the amphibian area, the construction of the park was basically completed according to the plan. During this period, a total of 16840 square meters of construction area were completed, including the West and North Gate (including the fire passage of the North Gate), the front area, hundred bird cage, peacock hall, songbird hall, walking bird hall, raptor hall, pheasant hall, orangutan hall, ape hall, monkey mountain, camel garden, deer garden, Shihu mountain, medium animal cage and small animal cage, etc In addition, a large number of cedar, juniper, ginkgo, cherry, peach, Begonia, jasmine, forsythia and other plants are planted to afforest and beautify the environment of the park.

After the completion of the songbird hall and the hundred bird cage in 1979, the first batch of birds entered the new park; in the same year, the ape hall was built, and the apes and monkeys moved to new houses; while building, opening. In the same year, tickets were sold separately in front of the gate of monkey mountain. In 1980, three new animal cages were built and a number of animals were moved; in 1981, one peacock building and one bird hall were built; the west gate of the new zoo was completed in the same year; in 1982, three pheasant cages and some medium-sized animal cages were built; in 1985, monkey mountain was built; in 1988, Shihu mountain was built. So far, all the work of moving all the animals to the new park has been completed. Qingdao zoo is open to the public with a new look.

Since the 1980s, the following animals have been introduced: Turkey and lynx from Beijing; white stork, reindeer and moose from Northeast China; one pair of African lion; one Siberian tiger from Jinan; and more than 60 pheasants from Xi'an, Chengdu and Guilin.

Development after completion

Construction

After ten years of construction year by year, it has become a comprehensive zoo with initial scale by 1987. Many new animal cages of different styles have been built in the park, with animal feed room and a warehouse. It can be said that since the 1970s, the construction and development of the zoo has been in a relatively fast stage, and the zoo has been in a rapid development stage

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