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13-12-2007

Looks fabulous. Is it privatly owned or does it get finacial help from the goverment? What's it usually like in the Netherlands?

13-12-2007

@ snowleopard: i'll tell my friend

@ Nicholas: Burgers is privately owned. It's a familybusiness by the "van Hoof" family. the previous van Hoof was a biologist that was quite well known, now i thought his son took over.
They do not receive government support. There are some zoos that get that. Mainly when they have monumental buildings that need to be looked after. Blijdorp/rotterdam is such an example. Blijdorp also receives support from the city, in return they have to keep their prices lower than other big zoos to make it affordable for "poorer people" to visit the zoo as well. Artis has recently received money for the new projects that will be build in the comming years. Most zoos in the netherlands do without systematic support. I believe there are the occasional city counsils that help when investments are needed for projects. But i must say i'm not an expert in that sort of things. Perhaps my fellow duchtman jwer knows more about that subject.

13-12-2007

Some great pics there!

It looks a fantastic zoo (with the exception of the orangutan exhibit).

What are their gorilla and elephant exhibits like?

And are the Orangs being considered for a new exhibit in the asia zone next year?

13-12-2007

Thank you for the pictures Trebarauna...
What's their manatee exhibit like???

13-12-2007

Just some remarks from my side. Burger's Zoo Arnhem is my favourite Zoo in Holland because it's so different from all the others. To answer some of the question's. Burger's is privately owned and afaik only Artis Amsterdam and Rotterdam Zoo receive steady support from the city council. Other's do try and get subsidies for projects, mainly when they are educational and usually manage to get some support.

As far as i know the Thompson gazelles are kept behind the scenes, the hartebeasts are visable. The Gorilla's live on a grassy island, which is decent in size and the visitors have a dug-out viewing area with windows on ground-level. The elephant exhibit isn't very large but does have trees in it, which is rare for elephant enclosures and gives a nice feel to it. The inside is a bunker with boxes per elephant, they keep old females who can't breed anymore (now 4, which is the max they can keep).

The manatee exhibit is a dark and murky pool inside the Bush. It's the part of the zoo they receive the most complaints about (as far as i heard rumours) because the animals are barely visable (if at all). The area is not small though, but even though (the same rumours again) the filters are the size of a truck they can't get them clear which isn't remarkable with all the leaf decay and waterbirds in it...

14-12-2007

Thanks for the info jwer!

14-12-2007

I gather that means the manatee pond gets complaints from the average visitor just because they want to see them in a crystal-clear tile-lined tank, even though its probably a perfectly acceptable habitat for the animals themselves?

14-12-2007

You gather correctly, even though i'm one of those moaning visitors

14-12-2007

I'm sure the animals are quite happy, but it's not very interesting to look at. The pond is lowered into the ground, and there is no underwater viewing. The fact that it's murky doesn't realy bother me, but they could have made some better viewing points.

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I am Toddy, the zoo-enthusiast from Denmark!
Different zoos visited: 77
Favourite animals: Aardvarks and manatees.
Website: www.zoos.dk

16-12-2007

burgers zoo - zoos.dk

This is a really good review of Burgers Zoo...

16-12-2007

Thanks for linking to my site, but since the reveiw is in Danish, I dont' think that many people here can enjoy it

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I am Toddy, the zoo-enthusiast from Denmark!
Different zoos visited: 77
Favourite animals: Aardvarks and manatees.
Website: www.zoos.dk

17-12-2007

Yeah, you're right Toddy...

22-08-2008

I've made the pictures on this pages. A week ago I went to Burgers Zoo again. I give you here more photo's!

Burgers Safari


Vieuw from the restaurant


The rhino part of the savannah


The separate exhibith, this time for a new male group of Thomson gazelles for the savannah and 3.0 Grant zebra's.


Safari part

22-08-2008

Burgers's Rimba

This part of the zoo opened in 2008. Bisons, Black Crested Mangabey, bacitrian camels, wolf,llama and more animals left the zoo.



Sun bear & Binturong exhibith


Big mixed asain field. With bantengs, eld's deer, hog deer, siamang and southern Pig-tailed Macaque.


Sumtran tigerexhibith

22-08-2008

Burgers Bush




Capybara area