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Top 10 Central European Zoos?

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  1. HungarianBison

    HungarianBison Well-Known Member

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    My opinion:
    1. Leipzig
    2. Berlin Zoo
    3. Prague
    4. Vienna
    5. Wroclaw
    6. Budapest
    7. Zlin
    8. Tierpark Berlin
    9. Dvúr Králove
    10. Warsaw
     
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  2. HungarianBison

    HungarianBison Well-Known Member

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    Leipzig: 10 pts
    Berlin Zoo: 9 pts
    Prague: 8 pts
    etc.
     
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  3. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Prague
    Tierpark Berlin
    Zoo Berlin
    Innsbruck Alpenzoo
    Wroclaw
    Magdeburg
    Plzen
    Leipzig
    Dvur Kralove
    Tierpark Nuremberg

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    This is, of course, with the caveat I have never visited Vienna :p
     
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    pipaluk Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    I don't think currently this is easy to gauge. When I visited both Berlin zoos 3 years ago, both had open carnivore houses (nocturnal house in zoo Berlin) plus the pachyderm house with manatee at Tierpark. At that time I would have said Tierpark was best zoo I'd visited in a long time and zoo Berlin close behind! Currently all I've mentioned along with Tierpark snake House is gone so both zoos may not fair so highly!
     
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  5. ShonenJake13

    ShonenJake13 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Prague
    Berlin Zoo
    Berlin TP
    Wroclaw
    Leipzig
    Plzen
    Magdeburg
    Poznan
    Ostrava
    Jihlava
     
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  6. HungarianBison

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    Now the top 10
    1.Berlin Zoo has 35 pts
    2.Tierpark Berlin has 28 pts
    3.Prague has 27 pts
    4.Leipzig has 18 pts
    5.Wroclaw has 17 pts
    6.Plzen and Magdeburg have 9 pts
    8.Innsbruck and Vienna have 7 pts
    10Budapest has 5 pts
     
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  7. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Well, my last visit to both came after those closures, and both collections were still pretty damn good! :) so you may be pleasantly surprised.
     
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    pipaluk Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Thanks, but I suspect Prague ( which I was due to visit in September), plus one or two others may now beat the Berlins, definitely in their current state!
     
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    Well, Prague beats the Berlins anyhow :p note my list.
     
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    I DID note that and I suspect I will feel the same! It is without question the best European zoo I've not managed to visit! If I could do a list I would, just still would not know where to put either Berlin zoo at present, probably Vienna could compete for 2nd?
     
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  11. Jurek7

    Jurek7 Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Berlin Zoo
    Wrocław
    Prague
    Walsrode
    Plzen
    Berlin Tierpark
    Leipzig
    Zurich
    Vienna
    Poznan Nowe

    Counting by unique animals and mega-exhibits, with some points for a nice park ambience.
     
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    Odds are that by the time you get back over to the continent the respective carnivore houses at the Berlin collections will be back open (and improved) in any case :p so it is possible you won't have to decide how far they have declined!

    I definitely want to reach Vienna in order to assess it for myself - had things gone differently it would have been one of several Central European collections I was going to visit for the first time over the course of this year, along with Budapest and Zagreb.
     
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    I have, of course, already discussed how much of Germany potentially counts as Central Europe elsewhere - so the borderline case of Walsrode can probably be ignored. Zurich, however, I think may be much more solidly a Western European collection - obviously I have never been to Switzerland but I feel that it perhaps falls more into the latter category.

    It's another collection I very much want to reach in order to assess for myself, and would have this year, incidentally.
     
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    Budapest is another I suspect would make my top 10 along with Leipzig, Wroclaw, Plzen, for starters, but obviously I won't try to produce a guess list!
     
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    I decided not to include Walsrode on mine purely because they’re a specialist collection - if I had however it would’ve been fifth place, with Jihlava being taken off the board.

    EDIT: should also mention I’ve only included zoos I’ve actually been to.
     
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    Zoo Berlin
    Prague
    Vienna
    Zurich
    Tierpark Berlin
    Leipzig
    Wroclaw
    Plzen
    Magdeburg
    Budapest

    Honorable mention - Warsaw
     
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    Obviously, Switzerland is both a part of Western Europe and Central Europe ('Mitteleuropa'). How could you be more central in Europe than dead center in the Alps and sandwiched between Germany, France, Italy, and Austria; Paris, Berlin, Rome, and Vienna :p ? On the other hand, Eastern European countries like Poland or Hungary apparently are also considered Central Europe ;) .
     
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  18. HungarianBison

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    Now the top 10
    1. Zoo Berlin has 55 pts
    2. Prague has 44 pts
    3.Tierpark Berlin has 39 pts
    4. Wroclaw has 30 pts
    5. Leipzig has 27 pts
    6. Plzen has 18 pts
    7. Vienna has 17 pts
    8. Magdeburg has 11 pts
    9. Zurich and Innsbruck have 9-9 pts
     
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    So gentlemen, is Zurich counts ? :)
     
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  20. HungarianBison

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    Two members mentioned Zurich, so I think it counts...
     
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