{"id":66870,"date":"2026-05-17T13:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/66870\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:52:39","slug":"zurich-zoological-garden-history-animals-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/66870\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Zoological Garden | History, Animals, &#038; Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tTable of Contents<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tTable of Contents<\/p>\n<p>  Ask Anything<\/p>\n<p class=\"topic-paragraph\">Z\u00fcrich Zoological Garden,  privately owned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/zoo\" class=\"md-crosslink autoxref \" data-show-preview=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">zoological park<\/a> partially funded by the city and canton of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Zurich\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Z\u00fcrich<\/a>. Opened in 1929, the 10-hectare (25-acre) <a class=\"md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off eb\" data-term=\"zoo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/dictionary\/zoo\" data-type=\"EB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">zoo<\/a> exhibits nearly 2,100 specimens of more than 380 species. It is home to many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/ungulate\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ungulates<\/a> and a breeding group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/Humboldt-penguin\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Humboldt penguins<\/a>. Its specialties include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/vicuna\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vicu\u00f1as<\/a>, pygmy hogs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/snow-leopard\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snow leopards<\/a>, Arabian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/oryx\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oryx<\/a>, and Rothschild\u2019s mynah birds. The zoo serves as the repository for the vicu\u00f1a studbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Table of Contents Table of Contents Ask Anything Z\u00fcrich Zoological Garden, privately owned zoological park partially funded by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[101,1543,1542,1541,51,36238],"class_list":["post-66870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-article","tag-britannica","tag-encyclopeadia","tag-encyclopedia","tag-zurich","tag-zurich-zoological-garden"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116590250962601969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}