Paris Zoos
Zoo de Vincennes - Jardin des Plantes - Jardin d'Acclimatation
Zoo de Vincennes : 01.44.75.20.00 - Ménagerie du Jardin des
Plantes : 01.40.79.37.94 - Jardin d'Acclimatation : 01.40.67.90.82
The zoo of Vincennes is the fruit of the
colonial expansions of the Thirties. Imagined in 1934 after the
colonial exhibition, it was the Parisian window of the African fauna
from the colonies. It was drawn by the architect Hagenbeck who imagined caves and ditches to avoid the
cruel cages, after having observed how much a simple seal captured by
fishermen appealed the curiosity of the walkers on the stall of a
fishmonger. Today the Zoo of Vincennes shelters 500 animals of which
several stars. 17 giraffes Peralta, family threatened of Niger, make
the greatest groups of giraffes of Europe. The Zoo of Vincennes is in
complete refitting in order to recreate at the door of Paris a true
tropical forest for the wellbeing of the animals and the pleasure of
the visitors. The Menagerie of the Botanical
Garden (Jardin des Plantes) was created after the French Revolution
to accomodate the animals of the Royal Menagerie. Its utility of
academy of protected species was confirmed recently, when a horse of
Prewalski was exported from there in order to be given in freedom with
some congeneric in plains of Asia from where it had completely
disappeared. On the other hand, there is no more bear inside the
Botanical garden since one knows that they like to live as a recluse
and like walking kilometers. A pit of 100 m2 is a true prison for
them. The Botanical garden counts 950 animals except insects
today. Inaugurated by Napoleon III in 1860, the zoological gardens were
supposed to be a natural laboratory size of study of the animal and
vegetable species lately imported into France. 121 animals whose
2 bears live there today in that garden who became an immense
appointment of walk for young families Sunday afternoon.
