For a long time I wanted to make a Poll about a certain species, and I was looking for a species that is rare in Europe, but which can be competed and debated about it. This is how I came up with a very beautiful animal that, unfortunately, is not very popular on Zoochat: the giant panda. I only include Western and Southern Europe because there is an unfortunate lack of photos of zoos in Northern (Denmark, Finland), Eastern Europe (Russia) or Southern Europe (Spain). Vote for your favorite, and don't just take your home zoo. Here are the candidates+photos: Pairi Daiza (Belgium): Female: Male: Young Adult (Tian Bao): Ouwehands Zoo (The Netherlands): Outdoor: Indoor: Enclosures of male and female are equal or similar to each other Zoo(logischer Garten) Berlin (Germany): Female: Male: ZooParc de Beuaval (France): Indoor (2 exhibits): Outdoor (2 exhibits): Edinburgh Zoo (United Kingdom): Male: Female: Tiergarten Schönbrunn (Austria): Outdoor: Indoor: These are the candidates, please let me know if I forgot a zoo.
As you can read at the beginning of my post, I left Southern Europe (Spain, Italy,...) out of the poll, only Western and Central Europe are in the poll, so Madrid is not either, although I could not imagine how Madrid could win.
I have to say that the Beauval's pictures don't show really how the outdoor enclosures are (they are much more lushy). Note that I don't say this exhibit is my prefered
'I only include Western Europe because there is an unfortunate lack of photos of zoos in Northern (Denmark, Finland), Eastern Europe (Russia) and Southern Europe (Spain).' This comes frome my original post. Like you can read is Denmark not incuded, so Copenhagen is not in the game.
Berlin is the clear winner for me. Ouwehands has the better indoor enclosure, but Berlin has multiple, very large and naturalistic outdoor enclosures, compared to ouwehands, which is clearly lacking in climbing equipment. Edinburgh’s and Pairi daiza’s indoor exhibits look horrible!
For me it's Ouwehands. I only saw Copenhagen, Pairi daiza and Ouwehands in real life to be fair. I don't know if it's helpful but I added some of Copenhagen's enclosure pictures. It was decent but it's a bit on the smaller side. Aesthetically Copenhagens was nice it was in the shape of a ying yang symbol. Inside bare minimum but due to the weather they can live outside year long.