My zoo list

13-09-2007

Artis, Amsterdam, NL
Avifauna, Alphen a/d Rijn, NL
Blijdorp, Rotterdam, NL
Emmen Zoo, Emmen, NL
Apenheul, Apeldoorn, NL
Serpo, Delft, NL
Sealife Scheveningen, Scheveningen, NL
AquaZoo Friesland, Leeuwarden, NL
Wissel Zoo, epe, NL
Burger's Dierenpark, Arnhem, NL
Ouwehands Dierenpark, Rhenen, NL
Dolphinarium Harderwijk, Harderwijk, NL
Amersfoort Zoo, Amersfoort, NL
Iguana, Vlissingen, NL

Barcelona Zoo, Barcelona, ES
Barcelona Aquarium, Barcelona, ES

Edinburgh Zoo, Edinburgh, SC
London Zoo, London, EN

Antwerpen Zoo, Antwerp, BE
Aquatopia, Antwerp, BE

Cologne Zoo, Cologne, GE
Duisburg Zoo, Duisburg, GE
Dortmund Zoo, Dortmund, GE

Zoo Dvur Kralové nad Labem, Kralové, CZ
Zoo Praha, Prague, CZ
Liberec Zoo, Liberec, CZ
Aquarium, Hradec Kralové, CZ

13-09-2007

Good topic to revive! I've included public aquaria in my list

UK

Birmingham Nature Centre*
Blue Planet Aquarium
Chessington Zoo
Chester Zoo
Cotswold Wildlife Park
Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park
Drayton Manor Zoo
Dudley Zoo
Edinburgh Zoo
London Aquarium
London Zoo
Marwell Zoo
National Sea Life Centre, Birmingham
Newquay Zoo
Paignton Zoo
Twycross Zoo
Welsh Mountain Zoo
West Midlands Safari Park
Woburn Safari Park
WWT Slimbridge

Europe

Barcelona Aquarium, Spain
Branfrere, France
Oceanapolis, France
Prague Zoo, Czech Republic
Salzburg Natural History Museum, Austria (has a fascinating reptile house)Scheveningen Sea Life Centre, Holland
St Malo Aquarium, France
Zoo Zurich, Switzerland

Americas

Busch Gardens, USA
Santiago Zoo, Chile
Seaworld Orlando, USA

*I used to go to Birmingham Nature Centre often as a kid. Back then it housed mainly native or once-native fauna, including owls, red squirrels, beavers, otters, ravens, fallow deer, lynx and wolf. These days it appears to be changing to a collection of more exotic endangered species such as red pandas, lemurs, cranes, Pere David deer and the ubiquitous meerkats and short-clawed otters.

13-09-2007

UK

ZSL London Zoo x3
Chester Zoo xlots
Twycross Zoo x1
Blackpool Zoo x2
Edinburgh Zoo x1
Linton Zoo x1
Bristol Zoo x1

Longleat Safari Park x1
Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo x1

Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens
Lotherton Hall Bird Gardens
Harewood House Bird Gardens
Sewerby Hall Zoo
Riber Castle (now closed)

Boughton-On-The-Water Birdland
Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetland Trust
Tropical World, Leeds
Natureland Seal Sanctuary, Skegness
Sealife Centres- Newcastle, Blackpool, Great Yarmouth, Scarborough + others
The Deep
Butterfly Houses- Stratford Upon Avon, Pila Palace, + others.
Plus various farms, small aquariums and more falconry centres than you could shake a stick at.

Europe
Mundomar, Benidorm, SPAIN.

14-09-2007

Here's my list. I've visited 81 collections, all in the UK. I never realised I had been to so many.

Arundel Wildfowl Trust
Battersea Park Zoo
Beale Wildlife Park
Belle Vue Zoo [closed]
Birmingham Nature Centre
Birmingham Sea Life Centre
Birdland, Bourton-on-the Water [not the original one]
Birdland, Farnham, Surrey
Blackbrook Zoo
Blackpool Sea Life Centre
Blackpool Tower Zoo [closed]
Blackpool Zoo
Blue Planet Aquarium, Ellesmere Port
Bournemouth Oceanarium
Brean Down Bird Gardens
Bridgmere Wildlife Park [closed]
Brighton Sea Life Centre
Bristol Zoo
Cheddar Aquarium [closed]
Chessington Zoo
Chestnut Centre, Derbyshire
Chester Zoo
Colchester Zoo
Conway Butterfly Farm
Cotswold Wildlife Park
Crystal Palace Zoo [closed]
Desford Tropical Bird Gardens
Drayton Manor Park and Zoo
Dudley Zoo
Edinburgh Zoo
Falconry Centre, Newent
Flamingoland
Glasgow Zoo
Guernsey Aquarium
Hamerton Zoo
Hastings Underwater World*
Hawk Conservancy
Haworth Zoo [closed] probably the worst place I ever visited
Hillside Bird Oasis [closed to the public]
Howletts Zoo
Jersey Zoo
Knowsley Safari Park
Living Coasts, Torquay
Llanerch Deer Park, St Asaph [closed]
London Aquarium
London Zoo
Longleat Safari Park
Martin Mere Wildfowl Trust
Marwell Zoo
Matlock Bath Aquarium [closed]
Midland Bird Garden, Bridgnorth [closed]
Morecambe Marineland [closed]
Norfolk Wildlife Park [closed]
Plymouth National Marine Aquarium
Port Lympne Zoo
Portsmouth Blue Reef Aquarium*
Rhyl Dolphinarium [closed]
Rhyl Ocean World [closed]
Rhyl Seaquarium*
Riber Castle Zoo [closed]
Rode Tropical Bird Gardens [closed]
Scarborough Sea Life Centre
Scarborough Zoo [closed]
Skegness Zoo
Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust
South Lakes Wildlife Park
Southend Sealife Adventure*
Southport Zoo
Stratford-upon-Avon Butterfly Farm
The Palms, Stapeley
Trentham Monkey Forest
Tynemouth Blue Reef Aquarium*
Twycross Zoo
Underwater World, Farnham, Surrey
Welsh Mountain Zoo, Colwyn Bay
Weston-Super-Mare Aquarium [closed]
Weston-Super-Mare Seaquarium*
Weymouth Sea Life Park*
Whipsnade Zoo
Winged World, Heysham

* formerly Sea Life Centres

14-09-2007

Here's a reply fropm the US:
Australia:

Australia Zoo
Currumbin
Dreamworld
Seaworld Qld.
Sydney Aquarium
Taronga

Europe:

Artis
Appenheul
Avifauna
Blijdorp
Ouwehands
Safari Beeksebergen
Wissel

US
Montgomery, Alabama
Reid Park, Tucson, Arizona
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
San Diego Zoo
San Diego Wild Animal Park
Seaworld San Diego
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Denver, Colorado
Mystic Aquarium, Mystic, Connecticut
Atlanta Georgia
Brookfield Zoo, Chicago
Lincoln Park, Chicago
Shedd Aquarium, Chicago
Henson Robinson Zoo, Springfield Zoo, Illinois
Fort Wayne Children's Zoo, Indiana
Indianapolis Zoo
Potowatomi Zoo, Southbend Indiana
Kentucky Down Under
Louisville Zoo
Audubon Zoo, Louisiana
Aquarium of the Americas
Detroit Zoo
Kansas City Zoo, Missouri
Saint Louis Zoo
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, Nebraska
Burnett Park Zoo, Syracuse, NY
Ross Park Zoo, New York
Buffalo Zoo, New York
Cleveland Zoo, Ohio
Columbus Zoo, Ohio
Cincinnati Zoo, Ohio
Toledo Zoo, Ohio
Oregon Zoo, Portland
Pittsburgh Zoo, Pennsyvania
Philadelphia Zoo, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Aviary
National Aquarium, Baltimore
Riverbanks Zoo, South Carolina
Knoxville Zoo, Tennessee
Memphis Zoo, Tennessee
Dallas Zoo
Dallas World Aquarium
Houston Zoo
San Antonio Zoo
Moody Gardesn, Galveston, Texas
Seaworld, San Ntonio
Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle
Notrhwest Trek, Eatonville W
Smithsonian National Zoological Park
Good Zoo, West Virginia
Henry Vilas Zoo, Madison, Wisconsin

Probably a few more that no longer exist.

Elaine Kirchner

14-09-2007

NEW ZEALAND:
Southern Encounter Aquarium and Kiwi House (Chch)
Orana Park (Chch)
Willowbank Wildlife Reserve (Chch)
Peacock Springs/Isaacs Wildlife Trust (Chch) [privately-owned and not open to the public]
North Brighton Zoo and Aquarium (Chch) [now closed]
Antarctic Centre (Chch; not a zoo, but it has little blue penguins and a polar fish tank)
Kaikoura Aquarium [now closed]
Hokitika Aquarium
Portobello Aquarium (Dunedin)
aviary complex at Dunedin Botanic Gardens
aviaries at Timaru
Southland Museum (Invercargill; not a zoo but they have tuatara)
aviary complex at Queenspark Gardens (Invercargill)
Queenstown Kiwi and Birdlife Park
Wellington Zoo
Staglands (near Wellington)
National Wildlife Centre (Mt Bruce)
Auckland Zoo
Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World (Auckland)

AUSTRALIA:
Melbourne Zoo
a little aquarium that used to be somewhere in the city (back in about 1992)

FIJI:
Kula Eco-park

ASIA:
Singapore Zoo
Jurong Bird Park (Singapore)
Underwater World (Singapore)
Butterfly Park and Insect World (Singapore)
Zoo Negara (KL, Malaysia)
Aquaria (KL, Malaysia)
KL Bird Park (Malaysia)
Dusit Zoo (Bangkok, Thailand)
Siam Ocean World (Bangkok, Thailand)
Khao Kheow Open Zoo (Chonburi, Thailand)
Bang Saen Aquarium (Chonburi, Thailand)
Underwater World (Pattaya, Thailand)
Chiang Mai Zoo (Thailand)
Angkor Zoo (Cambodia)

EUROPE:
Frankfurt Zoo

14-10-2007

I'm a zoofan but i'm not much of a zoo visitor

I've been to.

Sweden
Kolmården Zoo
Borås Djurpark
Ölands Zoo
Skånes Djurpark
Nordens Ark
Skansen

Denmark
Copenhagen Zoo
Aalborg Zoo
Odense Zoo (going there in November)

Finland
Helsinki Zoo

Rest of Europe
Berlin Zoo
Tierpark Berlin

Although, i'm planning to visit the zoos in Amsterdam, San Diego, Washington, Leipzig and Madrid soon.

31-10-2007

Here's my list!

France :

- Ménagerie du jardin des Plantes (Paris)
- Zoo de Vincennes (Paris)
- Cinéaqua (Aquarium, Paris)
- Aquarium de la Porte Dorée (Paris)
- Zoo du Bois d'Atilly (Ozoir La Ferrière)
- Safari-Parc de Thoiry (Thoiry)
- CERZA (Zoo, Lisieux)
- Parc de Clères (Zoo, Clères)
- Zoo d'Amnéville (Metz)
- Zoo de Mulhouse (Mulhouse)
- Safari-Parc de Peaugres (Peaugres)
- Zoo de Saint-Martin la Plaine (Saint-Martin la Plaine)
- Parc de Courzieu (Bird of prey show, Courzieu)
- Zoo de La Palmyre (Les Mathes)
- Aquarium de La Rochelle (La Rochelle)
- Le Septième continent (Aquarium, Talmont Saint-Hilaire)
- Ker Anas (Ducks, Saint-André des Eaux)
- Zoo de Pont-Scorff (Pont-Scorff)
- Espace Rambouillet (Deers, birds of prey..., Rambouillet)
- Aquarium de Lyon (Lyon)
- Zoo d'Amiens (Amiens)
- Zooparc de Beauval (Saint-Aignan) biggest french zoo
- Les Félins d'Auneau (big cats park, Auneau), now closed and moved to the city of Nesles, near Paris


Belgium :

- Antwerpen zoo (Antwerp)
- Dierenpark Planckendael (Mechelen)
- Aquatopia (Antwerp)
- Aquarium de Liège (Liège)
- Serpentarium blanckenberge (Blanckenberge)


England :

- London zoo (London)
- London aquarium (London)


Netherlands :

- Artis zoo (Amsterdam)
- Dieregaarde Blijdorp (Rotterdam)
- Apenheul (monkey park, Apeldoorn)
- Burger's zoo en Safari (Arnhem)
- Noorderdierenpark Emmen (Emmen)
- Dierenpark Amersfoort (Amersfoort)
- Dolfinarium Harderwijk (Harderwijk)
- Best zoo (Best)
- NOP Eindhoven (Bird park, Eindhoven)


Germany :

- Cologne zoo (Cologne)
- Wuppertal zoo (Wuppertal)
- Dortmund zoo (Dortmund)
- Duisburg zoo (Duisburg)
- ZOOM Gelsenkirchen (Gelsenkirchen)
- Frankfurt zoo (Frankfurt)
- Hannover zoo (Hannover)
- Vogelpark Walsrode (Birdpark, Walsrode)
- Tierpark Hagenbeck (Hamburg)
- Leipzig Zoo (Leipzig)
- Magdeburg zoo (Magdeburg)
- Zoo Aschersleben (Aschersleben)
- Berlin Zoologischer Garten (Berlin)
- Tierpark Berlin (Berlin)
- Krefelder zoo (Krefeld)
- Sea Life Hannover (Hannover)


Czech Republic :

- Prague zoo (Prague)
- Safari-Park Dvur Kralove (Dvur Kralove)
- Plzen zoo (Plzen)
- Liberec zoo (Liberec)
- Akva Terra (Plzen)


Hong-Kong :

- Kadoorie Farm and botanic gardens (Tai-Po)
- Hong-Kong zoo (Central Hong-Kong)
- Ocean Park (Stanley)


Singapore :

- Singapore zoo
- Jurong Bird Park
- Jurong Reptile park
- Sentosa butterfly park
- Underwater world and dolphin show


Malaysia :

- Zoo Negara (Kuala-Lumpur)
- Kuala-Lumpur Birdpark (Kuala-Lumpur)
- Zoo Melaka (Melaka)
- Melaka reptile park (Melaka)
- Melaka butterfly park (Melaka)


Indonesia :

- Sea World Indonesia (Jakarta)
- Zoo Ragunan (Jakarta)
- Schmutzer Primate Center (Jakarta)
- Zoo Surabaya (Surabaya)


Canada :

- Toronto zoo


That's it for now...
Soon to be added are Oceanium du Croisic (Le croisic, France), Aquarium de Saint-Malo (Saint-Malo, France), Reptilarium du Mont Saint Michel (France) ...

31-10-2007

I'm still a teenager so most foreign zoos are out of my range for a couple of years at least... but anyway, here's my zoo list:

UK
Chester Zoo
London Zoo
Whipsnade Zoo
Longleat Safari Park
West Midland Safari Park
Knowsely Safari Park
Twycross Zoo
Blue Planet Aquarium
London Aquarium
Monkey Forest at Trentham Gardens
Stapeley Water Gardens
Welsh Mountain Zoo

Spain:
Terra Natura, Benidorm
Barcelona Zoo
Vergel Safari Park
Mundomar
Marineland (Mallorca)
A zoo/safari park in Mallorca

USA:
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Sea World, Florida
Busch Gardens, Tampa Bay.

Within the next couple of years, I intend to visit the big Australian Zoos, The big Californian Zoos, Toronto Zoo, Appenheul, Tierpark Schonbrunn, various German Zoos and some important collections in the UK such as Edinburgh, Bristol, Colchester, Howletts, Port Lympne, Woburn, Belfast, Dublin.

03-11-2007

France
Beauval
Champrepus
Forêt des singes, Rocamandour
CERZA
Gramat
La Flèche
La Palmyre
Planète sauvage
Pont-Scorff
Safari de Peaugres
Retpiland
La Vallée des canards
Vincennes
La ménagerie du jardin des plantes
Pradinas
Jurques
La vallée des singes
Le rocher des aigles
Domaine de la Bourbansais
Alligator Bay
Zooparc de Trégomeur
Doué la Fontaine
Félins d'Auneau
Grand aquarium de St Malo
Sealand
Aquarium la rochelle

Europe
Jersey
Paradisio
Barcelona

11-11-2007

My list looks a bit pathetic compared to some of yours!

UK
Bristol
Chessington
Chester
Colchester
Howletts
Jersey
London
Marwell
Monkey World
Paignton
Port Lympne
Twycross
Whipsnade
Windsor
Woburn

Sweden
Boras
Eskilstuna
Kolmarden

Germany
Stuttgart

Canada
Calgary

USA
West Yellowstone

02-12-2007

I've visited 35 different zoos, wildlife parks and aquariums. That includes around 15 in Australia, as my wife and I spent our honeymoon travelling all over that vast continent for 6 weeks earlier this year. I've been to the zoo and wildlife park in Zurich, Switzerland...and the other 18 have been throughout western Canada and the western half of the United States. That used to seem like an awful lot to me, but then I realized that there are people on this website who have doubled that total!!

The San Diego Zoo, Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo, Taronga Zoo, Melbourne Zoo, San Diego Seaworld, Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Calgary Zoo all have some excellent exhibits and rate quite highly. With massive development seemingly at all of the top zoos it becomes difficult to rank my 35 from best to worst.

Seattle has won 5 or 6 AZA exhibit awards, San Diego is currently building "Elephant Odyssey" for over $40 million, Taronga is spending a whopping amount of cash on "Great Southern Oceans", the Vancouver Aquarium is already quite good and will almost double in size by late 2009, and the Calgary Zoo is spending an enormous $135 million on a football field-sized polar bear, penguin, arctic/antarctic complex. And with even a relatively small but decent zoo like Adelaide willing to put up $20 million in expansion costs ( new entrance, cafe, giant panda exhibit, etc ) then the best zoos are constantly changing to fit the times. How to choose the best????

03-12-2007

I can't edit my original list so I've just repeated it with a few more recent additions:


NEW ZEALAND:
Southern Encounter Aquarium and Kiwi House (Chch: this is where I work)
Orana Park (Chch: I used to work here)
Willowbank Wildlife Reserve (Chch)
Peacock Springs/Isaacs Wildlife Trust (Chch) [privately-owned and not open to the public]
North Brighton Zoo and Aquarium (Chch) [now closed]
Antarctic Centre (Chch; not a zoo, but it has little blue penguins and a polar fish tank)
Kaikoura Aquarium [now closed: I used to run some tanks in here]
Hokitika Aquarium
Portobello Aquarium (Dunedin)
Picton Aquarium
aviary complex at Dunedin Botanic Gardens
aviaries at Timaru
Southland Museum (Invercargill; not a zoo but they have tuatara)
aviary complex at Queenspark Gardens (Invercargill)
Queenstown Kiwi and Birdlife Park
Wellington Zoo
Staglands (near Wellington)
National Wildlife Centre (Mt Bruce)
Auckland Zoo
Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World (Auckland)

AUSTRALIA:
Melbourne Zoo
Melbourne Aquarium
a little aquarium that used to be somewhere in Melbourne (back in about 1992)
Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary
the macaque enclosure in Launceston, Tasmania (yes I know its only one enclosure but its still captive animals!)

FIJI:
Kula Eco-park

ASIA:
Singapore Zoo
Jurong Bird Park (Singapore)
Underwater World (Singapore)
Butterfly Park and Insect World (Singapore)
Zoo Negara (KL, Malaysia)
Aquaria (KL, Malaysia)
KL Bird Park (Malaysia)
Dusit Zoo (Bangkok, Thailand)
Siam Ocean World (Bangkok, Thailand)
Khao Kheow Open Zoo (Chonburi, Thailand)
Bang Saen Aquarium (Chonburi, Thailand)
Underwater World (Pattaya, Thailand)
Chiang Mai Zoo (Thailand)
Angkor Zoo (Cambodia)

EUROPE:
Frankfurt Zoo

My List
22-12-2007

Sweden:

Kolmårdens Djurpark
Kolmårdens Tropicarium
Borås Djurpark
Borås Tropikhus
Parken Zoo
Skansen
Skansen Akvariumet
Skånes Djurpark
Ölands Djurpark

Im going to next years?:

Copenhagen Zoo?
Odense Zoo?
Givskud Zoo?

Sweden

Nordens Ark?

EUROPE:

Berlin Zoo?

22-12-2007

My zoo list

Denmark
Copenhagen Zoo
Odense Zoo
Givskud Zoo
Aalborg Zoo
Randers Regnskov Tropical Zoo
Knuthenborg Safari
Ree Park – Ebeltoft Safari
Jesperhus Junglezoo
Scandinavian Wild Animal Park
Nykøbing Falster Zoo
Odsherreds Zoo
Munkholm Zoo
Naestved Zoo
Green World
Frydenlund Birdpark
North Zealand Birdpark
Danmarks Aquarium
AQUA freshwater aquarium
Kattegatcentre
Northsea Museum
Fjord og Bælt
The Fishereies and Maritime museum
Crocodile Zoo
Terraium Vissenbjerg

Norway
Kristiansand Zoo

Sweden
Borås Djurpark
Kolmården Djurpark
Kolmården Tropicarium
Parken Zoo Eskilstuna
Nordens Ark
Skansen
Skansen Aquarium
Tropikariet Helsingborg
Malmï Reptilecenter
Aquaria Watermuseum
Havets Hust
Grönings Moosepark
Eriksbetg Wildlife Park


Germany
Berlin Zoo
Berlin Aquarium
Tierpark Friderichsfelde
Hamburg Zoo
Hannover Zoo
Zoo am Meer
Vogelpark Walsrode
Rostock Zoo
Schwerin Zoo
München Zoo (Tierpark Hellabrunn)
Nürnberg Zoo
Cologne Zoo
Duisburg Zoo
Dortmund Zoo
Wuppertal Zoo
Frankfurt Zoo
Sealife Berlin


Austria
Salzburg Zoo
Alpenzoo Innsbruck
House of Nature


Holland
ARTIS Amsterdam
Rotterdam Zoo (Diergaarde Blijdorp)
Burgers Zoo
Ouwehands Dierenpark


Belgium
Antwerpen Zoo
Dierenpark Plankendael


England
London Zoo
Monkey World


Total: 67

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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