My small but growing list Visited so Far Newquay Zoo Dartmoor Zoological Park Dudley Zoo Paignton Zoo Longleat Safari Park Woburn Safari Park Wingz Bird and Animal Gardens Paradise Park Gweek Seal Sanctuary Screech Owl Sanctuary Blue Reef Aquarium (newquay) National Marine Aquarium Planned For next Year Return Visits to Newquay, Dartmoor and Wingz. Shaldon Zoo Exmoor Zoo Porfell Animal Park Tamar Otter and Wildlife Centre Gentleshaw Wildlife Centre
my updated list, because I haven't posted one in a while: NEW ZEALAND: Southern Encounter Aquarium and Kiwi House (Christchurch) Orana Park (Christchurch) Willowbank Wildlife Reserve (Christchurch) Peacock Springs/Isaacs Wildlife Trust (Christchurch) [privately-owned and not open to the public] North Brighton Zoo and Aquarium (Christchurch) [now closed] International Antarctic Centre (Christchurch; not a zoo, but it has little blue penguins and a polar fish tank) Birdlands (Little River, near Christchurch) [now closed] Spencerville Wildlife Reserve (near Christchurch) [now closed except for a few decrepit aviaries] Kaikoura Aquarium [now closed] Hokitika Aquarium Picton Aquarium Portobello Aquarium (Dunedin) aviary complex at Dunedin Botanic Gardens Otago Museum butterfly house (Dunedin) aviaries at Timaru Botanic Gardens aviaries at Caroline Bay (Timaru) aviaries at Ashburton Botanic Gardens Landon Creek Bird Sanctuary [now closed] 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) Nga Manu Nature Reserve (Waikanae) National Wildlife Centre (Mt Bruce) Auckland Zoo Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World (Auckland) AUSTRALIA: Cairns Wildlife Dome Bat Reach (Kuranda; wildlife rescue centre, not a zoo) Alma Park Zoo (Brisbane) Melbourne Zoo Melbourne Aquarium a little aquarium that used to be somewhere in Melbourne (back in 1993) 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 NEW CALEDONIA: Parc Zoologique et Forestier (Noumea Zoo and Botanic Gardens) Aquarium des Lagons (Noumea Aquarium) ASIA: Singapore Zoo Jurong Bird Park (Singapore) Underwater World (Singapore) Butterfly Park and Insect World (Singapore) Zoo Negara (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Aquaria KLCC (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Kuala Lumpur Bird Park (Malaysia) Lok Kawi Zoo (Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo) Jong's Crocodile Farm and Zoo (Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo) Kuching aquarium (Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo) 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) Bali Bird Park (Bali, Indonesia) Rimba Reptile Park (Bali, Indonesia) Ragunan Zoo and Schumutzer Primate Centre (Jakarta, Java, Indonesia) Taman Mini Indonesia (Jakarta, Java, Indonesia) Bukittinggi Zoo (Bukittinggi, Sumatra, Indonesia) Medan Zoo (Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia) EUROPE: Frankfurt Zoo (Germany)
[*]Australia Zoo, Beerwah, QLD, Australia (used to work) [*]Underwater World, Mooloolaba, QLD, Australia (Worked for the Vet who treats the animals) [*]Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Currumbin, QLD, Australia [*]Rockhampton Zoo, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia [*]Bundaberg Zoo, Bundaberg, QLD, Australia (ex home zoo) [*]Reef World Aquarium, Hervey Bay, QLD, Australia [*]Sea World, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia [*]Dreamworld, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia [*]ReefHQ, Townsville, QLD, Australia [*]Taronga Zoo, Mosman, NSW, Australia [*]Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo, NSW, Australia [*]Wagga Wagga Zoo, Wagga, NSW, Australia (ex home Zoo) [*]Melbourne Zoo, Royal Park, VIC, Australia [*]Werribee Open Range Zoo, Werribee, VIC, Australia [*]Halls Gap Zoo, Halls Gap, VIC, Australia (current home zoo) [*]Monarto Zoo, Monarto, SA, Australia [*]Kula Eco Park, Coral Coast, Viti Levu, Fiji Islands [*]San Deigo Zoo, San Diego, CA, USA THE BEST ZOO IN THE WORLD [*]Busch Gardens, Tampa Bay, FL, USA (Zoo AND Theme Park). [/list] Defunct Ones [*]Murray Cod Hatcheries, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia [*]Forest Glen, Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia
This looks like fun..... Let's see...not sure whether all of these can be classified as zoos... UK London Zoo Whipsnade Zoo Drusillas Park Newquay Zoo National Seal Sanctuary Brighton Sealife Centre Chessington Zoo Port Lympne Zoo Woburn Safari Park Longleat Safari Park National Marine Aquarium Marwell Wildlife Park Isle Of Wight Zoo Cricket St Thomas Eagle Heights Paradise Park (Hayle) Cornish Birds of Prey Centre USA Seaworld Orlando Busch Gardens Tampa Dolphins Plus Disney's Animal Kingdom Homasassa State Park Gatorland Spain (Tenerife) Loro Parque Jungle Park Aqualand (dolphinarium) Really want to visit: Flamingoland, UK Coombe Martin, UK West Midlands Safari Park, UK Knowsley, UK Clearwater Marine Aquarium, USA Gulfarium, USA Vancouver Aquarium, Canada Harderwijk Dolfinarium, The Netherlands (See a trend emerging? )
I personally count anything as a zoo that displays live animals other than domestic/farm animals, and even then I'll count it if there are enough exotics thrown in. So, for me, that includes aquariums, aviaries, insectariums (including butterflies), reptile places, wildlife parks, marine parks, some museums and many nature centers.
Some Additions Rio Grande Zoo/ Albuquerque, NM Oklahoma City Zoo/ Oklahoma City, OK St. Louis Zoo/ St. Louis, MO Columbus Zoo/ Columbus, OH Also going to the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, NY tomorrow. 20th Zoo!! I will take pictures because they are lacking in our gallery. EDIT: Oh shoot forgot that Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, WA when I made the first post. 21 zoos I guess.
Yikes, haven't done this in a while. So the updates here are all my new zoos from August to November. I've added a separate section for the small German bird parks of the Rhine valley to avoid swamping the Germany section. These are odd places - you can read more about them in the new Zoo Grapevine if you're a member of the IZES. New additions ** denotes closed collections. Austria Alpenzoo Innsbruck Safaripark Gänserndorf** Haus der Natur (Salzburg NHM) Haus des Meeres, Vienna Salzburg Zoo Tiergarten Schönbrunn, Vienna Wüstenhaus (Desert House) Schönbrunn, Vienna Belgium Antwerp Zoo Aquatopia Planckendael Czech Rep. Akva-Tera, Plzen Brno Zoo Brno Aquarium Crocodile Zoo, Protivín Dvůr Králové Zoo Hodonín Zoo Jihlava Zoo Zoo Ohrada Olomouc Zoo Ostrava Zoo Plzen Zoo Prague Zoo Zoo Park Vyškov Zoo Zlin Denmark Copenhagen Zoo Givskud Zoo France Champrepus Zoo Lyon Zoo Menez-Meur Animal Park Océanopolis Mulhouse Zoo Paris, Jardin des Plantes Paris, Vincennes** (closed for now, anyway) Germany Augsburg Zoo Berlin Tierpark Berlin Zoo Darmstadt Vivarium Dortmund Zoo Aquazoo Düsseldorf Duisburg Zoo Frankfurt Zoo Gelsenkirchen (visited first as Ruhr-Zoo and then as ZOOM) Tierpark Gettorf Hagenbecks Tiergarten, Hamburg Hannover Zoo Heidelberg Zoo Serengetipark Hodenhagen Kaiserslautern Zoo Karlsruhe Museum Aquarium and Vivarium Karlsruhe Zoo Köln Zoo Krefeld Zoo Opel-Zoo Kronberg Landau Reptilium Landau Zoo Leipzig Zoo Lübeck Tierpark Lüneburger Heide Wildpark Magdeburg Zoo Luisenpark, Mannheim Allwetterzoo Münster Munich Zoo Neumünster Tierpark Neunkirchen Zoo Nordhorn Zoo Nuremberg Zoo Tierpark Oberwald Osnabrück Zoo Pforzheim Wildpark NiederRheinPark Plantaria** Poing Wildpark Rheine Zoo Rostock Zoo Saarbruecken Zoo Schwarze Berge Wildpark Schwerin Zoo SeaLife Centre Berlin SeaLife Centre Munich SeaLife Centre Speyer SeaLife Centre Timmendorfer Strand Wilhelma Zoo, Stuttgart Niendorf-Timmendorfer Strand Bird Park Walsrode Bird Park Wuppertal Zoo Germany - Rhine Valley 'Association' Bird Parks Neuthard Bird Park Erlenwald Bird Park Leopoldshafen Bird Park Heglachaue Bird Park Heppenheim Bird Park Biebesheim Bird Park Reilingen Bird and Animal Park Oberhausen Bird Park Schifferstadt Bird Park Birkenheide Bird and Animal Park Heddesheim Bird Park Viernheim Bird Park Hungary Budapest Zoo Győr Zoo Rep. of Ireland Dublin Zoo Italy Bioparco Roma Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Bird Park Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park Zoo Negara Netherlands Amersfoort Zoo Apenheul Burgers Zoo Arnhem Artis Avifauna BestZoo Rotterdam Zoo, Blijdorp Emmen Zoo Wissel Zoo, Epe Harderwijk Dolphinarium Overloon Zoo Ouwehands Zoo, Rhenen Papagaaienpark/NOP, Veldhoven Poland Katowice Zoo Kraków Zoo Łódź Zoo Opole Zoo Poznań New Zoo Poznań Old Zoo Warsaw Zoo Wrocław Zoo Portugal ZooMarine Slovakia Bratislava Zoo Spain Barcelona Aquarium Barcelona Zoo Empordá Zoo Jungle Park (Parque las Aguilas) Monkey Park (Tenerife Zoo) Loro Parque Siam Park (mainly a water park but with sea lions, sharks, rays and (fully-labelled!) carp) Sobrestany Animal Park Sweden Malmöhus Museum Aquarium and Terrarium Switzerland Basel Zoo Tierpark Lange Erlen Zürich Zoo United Kingdom Amazon World Amazonia (Motherwell) Anglesey Bird World Anglesey SeaZoo Arundel Wildfowl and Wetland Centre Banham Zoo Battersea Park Children's Zoo Birdland Birdworld Birmingham Nature Centre Blackbrook Zoo Blackpool Tower Aquarium Blackpool Zoo Blair Drummond Safari Park Blue Planet Aquarium Blue Reef Aquarium (Bristol) Blue Reef Aquarium (Newquay) Bodafon Farm Park and Bird of Prey Centre Bristol Zoo British Wildlife Centre Camperdown Wildlife Centre Cardigan Island Farm Park Cheshire Waterlife and Falconry Centre Chessington Zoo (World of Adventures) Chester Zoo Chestnut Centre Colchester Zoo Welsh Mountain Zoo, Colwyn Bay Cotswold Falconry Centre Cotswold Wildlife Park Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park Amazona Zoo, Cromer The Deep Tropical Butterfly House, Dinnington Drayton Manor Park Dudley Zoo Edinburgh Zoo Exmoor Zoo Fife Animal Park Five Sisters Zoo Park Flamingoland Gauntlet Falconry Centre Gentleshaw Wildlife Centre Grangewood Zoo** Hamerton Zoo Park Harewood House Bird Garden Heythrop Zoo Highland Wildlife Park Hillside**(now only open infrequently) Hoo Farm Howletts Wild Animal Park Isle of Wight Butterfly Centre Jersey Zoo Knowsley Safari Park Lakeland Wildlife Oasis Lakemore Country Park Animal Kingdom** Lakes Aquarium Linton Zoo Liverpool Museum Aquarium and Bug House Living Coasts Loch Lomond Falconry Centre London Zoo London Aquarium Longleat Safari Park Lotherton Hall Bird Garden Mablethorpe Animal Gardens Manchester Museum Vivarium Manor House Wildlife Park Marwell Zoo Park Matlock Bath Aquarium Natureland Skegness National Bird of Prey Centre, Newent Newquay Zoo Noah's Ark Zoo Farm St David's Oceanarium** Paignton Zoo Paradise Wildlife Park (Broxbourne) Paradise Park (Hayle) Paultons Park Pili Palas Port Lympne Zoo Park Rays Farm Rhyl SeaQuarium Riber Castle Wildlife Park** Sandown Zoo, Isle of Wight Rare Species Conservation Centre, Sandwich Seaview Wildlife Encounter (Flamingo Park) Shaldon Zoo SeaLife Centre Alton Towers SeaLife Centre Birmingham SeaLife Centre Blackpool SeaLife Centre Brighton SeaLife Centre Gt. Yarmouth SeaLife Centre Loch Lomond Shepreth Wildlife Park Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre National Seal Sanctuary, Gweek South Lakes Wild Animal Park Palms Tropical Oasis, Stapeley** Stepaside Wildlife Park** Stonham Barns Falconry Centre Suffolk Wildlife Park ('Africa Alive') Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens Tilgate Nature Centre Tropical Wings Zoo Tropical World, Leeds Twycross Zoo Waddesdon Manor Aviary West Midlands Safari Park Wetlands Wildlife Park Whipsnade Zoo Wildwalk@Bristol** Wildwood Trust Windsor Safari Park** Wingham Wildlife Park Woburn Safari Park Yorkshire Wildlife Park United States Grand Canyon Deer Park Living Desert Oakland Zoo San Diego Wild Animal Park San Diego Zoo SeaWorld CA
London Zoo Whipsnade Zoo Chester Zoo Newquay Zoo National Seal Sanctuary Great Yarmouth Sealife Centre Chessington Zoo Woburn Safari Park Longleat Safari Park Marwell Wildlife Park Africa Alive Banham Zoo Australia Zoo Underwater World Dubai Zoo San Diego Zoo San Diego Wild Animal Park Aquarium in the Bay Monterey Bay Aquarium Disney's Animal Kingdom Busch Gardens Seaworld, San Diego Seaworld, Orlando Gatorland
I'm not surprised, we'd never heard of them until we started looking at Zootierliste's maps! They're all pretty much someone's back garden (often a restaurant's garden) with a surprising range of birds. The quality varied immensely - Heppenheim had a wonderful collection, Biebesheim a pretty good collection but a ramshackle site and atrocious labelling, Viernheim was very good all-round. There are about 60 of them in the Rhine Valley area; they seem to be a local 'thing'! They're run as part of Verband Gemeinnuetziger Vogel- und Tierparks (thanks to robmv for writing an article I could check that in!), which is the Association of Non-profit Bird and Animal Parks (a few have native and/or domestic mammals, occasionally wallabies and suchlike as well). Most are free to enter but have a donation box. They're thick on the ground and so small that doing 4 or 5 in a day is quite possible. At least one fellow enthusiast did 11 zoos in a day in this region - we managed 8 - 6 of the bird parks plus Luisenpark and the SeaLife at Speyer - without feeling anything was rushed. Most of the bird parks only take 20-30 minutes at most. I'll try to put some pictures in the Germany - Other gallery later of some of the places; Heppenheim has a gallery here: Heppenheim Bird Park Gallery Heppenheim's fairly typical in terms of construction and layout but well above-average in terms of species diversity.
Thanks. It's been a very busy year - the Germany trip was mad - all the German zoos in green above plus my second visits to Stuttgart and Cologne and we did Colchester on the way and Hamerton on the way back for 30 zoos in less than 2 weeks! (albeit about half of them very small collections!)
Haha wow thats funny I did exactly 30 zoos in europe this summer, mostly in Germany and surrounding countries in 3 weeks, but the first week I was with my girlfriend and only did 2 zoos in that time. Time for me also to post my zoo list:
As part of my introduction to Zoochat..I think sharing my personal zoo list is in order: Also I included the few national park or whale watch tours I've done New additions since 2008, all photos taken digitally ** denotes closed collections. Australia 1.) Australia Zoo (Steve Irwin’s Park) 2.) Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary 3.) David Fleay Wildlife Park 4.) Healesville Sanctuary 5.) Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary 6.) Melbourne Zoo 7.) Melbourne Night Zoo 8.) Sea World (Gold Coast) 9.) Sydney Wildlife World 10.) Sydney Zoo Canada 1.) Junglecat World Wildlife Park 2.) Toronto Zoo Czech Republic 1.) Jihlava Zoo 2.) Liberec Zoo 3.) Plzen Zoo 4.) Prague Zoo 5.) Plzen Zoo France 1.) Mulhouse Zoo 2.) Parc des Félins 3.) Paris, Jardin des Plantes Germany 1.) Berlin Tierpark 2.) Berlin Zoo 3.) Dortmund Zoo 4.) Duisburg Zoo 5.) Erfurt Zoo 6.) Frankfurt Zoo 7.) Heidelberg Zoo 8.) Köln Zoo 9.) Krefeld Zoo 10.) Leipzig Zoo 11.) Leipzig (Wildpark Connewitz) 12.) Opel-Zoo Kronberg 13.) Magdeburg Zoo 14.) Munich Zoo India 1.) Bandhavgarh National Park 2.) New Delhi Zoo Mexico 1.) Xcaret Cancun Netherlands 1.) Burgers Zoo Arnhem 2.) Harderwijk Dolphinarium 3.) Overloon Zoo 4.) Wissel Zoo, Epe New Zealand 1.) Auckland Zoo 2.) Dolphin Encounters Tour 3.) Whale Watch Kaikoura Poland 1.) Poznań New Zoo 2.) Wrocław Zoo Spain 1.) Faunia Madrid 2.) Madrid Zoo Switzerland 1.) Zurich Zoo United Kingdom 1.) British Wildlife Centre 2.) Howletts Wild Animal Park 3.) London Zoo 4.) Paradise Wildlife Park (Broxbourne) 5.) Rare Species Conservation Centre, Sandwich United States 1.) Baltimore Aquarium 2.) Baltimore Zoo 3.) Baton Rouge Zoo 4.) Big Cat Rescue, Tampa 5.) Boothbay Harbor Whale Watch, Maine 6.) Bronx Zoo 7.) Brookfield Zoo 8.) Busch Gardens Tampa 9.) Capital of Texas Zoo 10.) Catskill Game Farm** 11.) Central Park Zoo 12.) Cincinnati Zoo 13.) Cleveland Zoo 14.) Columbus Zoo 15.) Dallas World Aquarium 16.) Dallas Zoo 17.) Disney’s Animal Kingdom 18.) Ft. Worth Zoo 19.) Georgia Aquarium 20.) Gladys Porter Zoo 21.) Houston Zoo 22.) Hyannis Whale Watch Cruises, Cape Cod 23.) Lion Country Safari 24.) Los Angeles Zoo 25.) Louisville Zoo 26.) Lowry Park Zoo 27.) Marine World/Africa U.S.A.** 28.) Maui Dolphin Discovery, Hawaii 29.) Memphis Zoo 30.) Miami Metro Zoo 31.) Miami Seaquarium 32.) Milwaukee Zoo 33.) Minnesota Zoo 34.) Monkey Jungle 35.) Monterey Bay Aquarium 36.) Mote Aquarium 37.) Mystic Aquarium 38.) New England Aquarium 39.) New York Aquarium 40.) Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo 41.) Parrot Jungle** 42.) Philadelphia Zoo 43.) Prospect Park Zoo 44.) Queens Zoo 45.) San Antonio Zoo 46.) San Diego Wild Animal Park 47.) San Diego Zoo 48.) San Francisco Zoo 49.) Santa Barbara Zoo 50.) Sea World Orlando 51.) Sea World San Antonio 52.) Sea World San Diego 53.) Shedd Aquarium 54.) Smithsonian’s National Zoo 55.) St. Louis Zoo 56.) Syracuse Zoo 57.) Toledo Zoo 58.) West Palm Beach Zoo 59.) York’s Wild Kingdom, Maine
That's an impressive list Giant Eland, both in terms of numbers of places visited and the wide range of travel. If you ever get the time I'd be interested to hear your opinions comparing and contrasting collections from different parts of the world.
Hmm... National Zoo Baltimore Zoo ZooAmerica Disneys Animal Kingdom Reptiland Baltimore Aquarium Lake Tobias Wildlife Park And probably a few I am over looking.I have been to most 2-4 times
I have a very small list of mostly high quality collections National Zoo National Aquarium in Baltimore Philadelphia Zoo Kansas City Zoo Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo Sedgwick County Zoo St. Louis Zoo Minnesota Zoo Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Topeka Zoo Chattanooga Zoo Adventure Aquarium New England Aquarium Tennessee Aquarium Hoping to add to this list in the future.
I say this not to be condescending, or pompous, but out of genuine inquiry... These last two posters in particular, but others too before them - why haven't you been to more zoos? I'm guessing that "lizardinsanity" is based somewhere in the north-east of the USA, so why no trips to the New York zoos for example? For my entire childhood I was planning such a trip, and made it as soon as I was able. I don't understand how someone who was interested enough in zoos to post, knowledgeably, on a site such as this, wouldn't make the effort required to visit one of the world's great zoos if that zoo was on his / her doorstep. Likewise, KCZoofan, clearly you are passionate about zoos, and clearly you know your stuff, so why haven't you been to some of the other zoos in your area? Funnily enough, 20 years ago I made several visits to your home town of Olathe (not a place which features regularly on the tourist trail), and to this day I am still cross with myself for not having gone to the nearby zoo in Manhattan (Sunset Zoo) - it's a serious enough place to have cheetahs, sloth bears, giant anteaters and, most exciting of all perhaps, Chacoan peccaries. I reckon the journey from Olathe would take about two hours. And while I appreciate that the distances across a state such as Kansas are vast, how about the zoos in Garden City and Great Bend? And if neither of those zoos is perhaps worth a six hour drive - although Garden City looks rather interesting - I reckon it'd only be about 4 or 5 hours drive to Tulsa or Oklahoma, each of which has a serious zoo. I really don't ask this question to be smug, or to suggest that someone who has been to more zoos is in any way 'better' than someone who has been to fewer, but just out of genuine curiosity.
Well, I would love to travel and see all of those zoos. I am really trying to get to go to Manhattan. The problem is, I'm 14, and I cannot drive yet. My parents do not like zoos very much, so I cannot be too pushy. I try to work at least one zoo into every vacation, but that is only 1-2 a year. My gandmother will sometimes take me to zoos such as Saint Louis, but that is only once a year. I hope that answers your question.
