Swedish Zoos

Swedish Zoos
09-02-2008

OK, i've created this thread so i can tell you everything about the zoos in Sweden. We don't have any sensational zoos here, but i will tell you everything about them.

Kolmården
Kolmården is the biggest zoo in Sweden and here we have a great safaripark with giraffes, zebras, ostriches, lions, bears and African wild dogs. We also have the only dolphinarium in Sweden here. Although, the show here is more like circus, so i don't like it. This year they will rebuild the dolphinarium and the seal exhibit. It will be called Marine World. Other rare animals that can be found here are: Lowland gorillas, dholes, Amur tigers, snow leopards, Asian elephants, rhinos and chimpanzees.

Borås Zoo
Borås Zoo is also a big zoo, but they don't have many species, unfortunely. They have a big savannah with giraffes, African elephants, buffalos, zebras, antilopes and ostriches. The rhinos share their exhibit with cheetahs and it works. The lion group is huge and is famous in Scandinavia. Here you can also find orangutans, penguins, seals, camels, African wild dogs, wolves, brown bears, tigers and deers.

Parken Zoo
Parken Zoo is located in Eskilstuna, a town in Sweden. The zoo is famous for the Asian lions and the white tigers. Other cats in the zoo are leopards, pumas, fishing cats, pallas cats and Sumatra tigers. The Sumatra tigers will come sometime during this year. You can also find the only pygmy hippos in Sweden here. They also have gibbons, tapirs, meerkats, armadillos, coatis and Komodo dragons. Their walkthrough exhibit with kangaroos is really cool.

Skansen
Skansen is my home zoo, in Stockholm. Here, they don't have any elephants or lions. Although, they have Scandinavian animals like brown bears, otters, wolverines, mooses, foxes and reindeers. Although, they also have the Skansen aquarium with baboons, lemurs, ground squirrels, crocodiles, snakes, fishes, sloths and insects.

Nordens Ark
Nordens Ark is located outside Gothenburg, a big town in Sweden. Here you can find rare species only. All of the animals here are rare in Scandinavian zoos. They have the only red pandas in Sweden. They also have snow leopards, amur leopards, amur tigers, maned wolves, Przewalski's wild horses, mountain goats, pudus and many rare bird species.

Ystad Zoo
Ystad Zoo is a small zoo with pretty common species like camels, zebras, ostriches, llamas, parrots, reptiles and antelopes. They also have a new exhibit for macaques. It's not a sensational zoo, but it looks very nice and i haven't visited it yet, unfortunely.

Furuvik
Furuvik is a great zoo with the only Sumatran orangutans in Scandinavia as the big highlight. Their chimpanzee exhibit is also very nice. Their tropical house is new and houses snakes, marmosets, birds, fishes, toads, insects and iguanas. Their newest future plan is to build the biggest primate park in Scandinavia, and they will try to get bonobos and lowland gorillas in the future. Other animals that you can find here are camels, gibbons, kangaroos, owls, emus, parrots and domestic animals.

Ölands Zoo
I haven't been to Ölands Zoo for ages now and i don't remember much. They have a nice crocodile house, tigers, lions, zebras, camels, chimpanzees, dingos and gibbons. I have to visit it soon again since they have a whole new chimpanzee exhibit. The old one was not so good and i really wanna see the new one.

So, these are only the major zoos in Sweden, and there are a lot of other smaller zoos in Sweden with Scandinavian animals only, but these are the best zoos here. If you wanna know something, just ask me.

09-02-2008

The rhino/cheetah mixed exhibit at Boras Zoo seems very intriguing...

Do you have any pictures of it?

09-02-2008

1. Does "Gotland djurpark" (dont remember if thats the true name) exist still?

I spend my summers between 1999-2001 on Gotland and remember visiting this zoo on at least two occasions. I have a vague memory of what was there by the time and that included ring-tailed lemurs, Indian porcupine, guanaco, Eland, Barbary sheep, Emu, watusi cattle, red-necked wallaby and nutria.

I know that Skansen and Furuvik now got most of the ring-tailed Lemurs kept on Gotland and a few years ago I read that they had severe economic problems, looking around at the internet it dosent seems like the zoo still exist.

2. You happen to know whats happened with the Pygmy Lori sized in a department in Stockholm a while ago, heard that it was going to Malmo naturmuseum were another Pygmy Lori is kept.

09-02-2008

Just in case Swedish Zoo Fan doesn't, I have a few. I visited Boras in 2004, and really enjoyed the park. The two savannahs are great, and the apes and big cats also had nice enclosures. Like mentioned above, it doesn't hold many species, but it's a great zoo anyway.
The rhino/cheetah savannah is very interesting. Most of it looks like a traditional svannah, flat and grassy, just the way these animals like it. Part of it however, has en enclosed by a low wall of boulders. The cheetahs can jump over these easily, giving them them an area to get away from the rhinos.

Rhinoes - Two of the white rhinos. On the left, you can see part of the boulder wall.
Cheetah - A cheetah resting on a large boulder inside the enclosed area.

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10-02-2008

Gotlands Zoo is closed

20-11-2008

A question regarding Parken Zoo: do their Komodo Dragons also have access to an outdoor exhibit?

20-11-2008

Yes, they have access to a smaller outdoor exhibit when the weather is warm enough.

21-11-2008

@Jodea: Thanks!

22-11-2008

Furuvik wants to receive some gorillas and bonobos. Is there known in how many years, from where, bachelor male gorilla group?

11-02-2009

They haven't built any enclosures yet so I can't imagine it will take place in the next few years. They have plans (studbook keeper contacted) about getting gorillas. There are no concrete plans for bonobos as of yet, other then a wish to include them in the collection later on.