Lietuvos Zoologijos sodas (Lithuanian zoo)

http://zoosodas.lt/


City: Kaunas

Country: Lithuania

Province: Kaunas

 

 

Opend 01.07.1938

 

 

Species 148

 

Please note the zoo is closed 2021-23 forrenovation 
 

This zoo shows especially the native animals, but also kulans, rhinoceros's and tigers

Last visitet 2013

 

 

Lietuvos Zoologijos Sodas
Radvilenu pl. 21
LT- 50299 Kaunas
Lithuania

 

 

 

zootierliste.de/zoosmap.php?showzoo=10001001

 

Phone 37 33 25 40

 

 

Open minimum 9am-4pm

 

 

Entrance fee

• Adult 5 €
• Child 3 €
• Family*/** 15/17 €

*Family tickets are valid for 2 parents and 2 children
**Family tickets are valid for 2 parents and 3 or more children


Kids will love the petting zoo


History

July 1, 1938, 5 p.m. the Zoo was officially opened. The following were present at the opening: Minister of Education prof. Tonkūnas, Minister of Justice Masiulis, Deputy Minister of Engineering Jankevičius, vice-mayor pik. Rusteika, many professors, heads of government institutions, public figures, members of the press and other invited guests. Several hundred people gathered at the original garden gate before the opening. On the opening day, the exhibition consisted of only 40 exhibits: 5 foxes, 1 red deer, 3 moose, boar, white stork, gray heron, eagles, owls, fallow deer, 2 wolves, raccoons, ferrets, vultures, donkeys and English park cattle. It was prof. Animals donated to him by Tadas Ivanauskas and other zoos. During the year, the zoo was replenished with up to 150 exhibits. The Warsaw Zoo, which donated several species of rare exotic animals, especially helped the Kaunas Zoo. From 1941 to 1958, as many as 5 former garden directors - Zelnys, Skaudžius, Tamošiūnas, Kuzminskas and Šarmaitienė - devoted their forces to the development of the zoo. From 1958 to 1985, Algimantas Andriuškevičius headed the zoo. On December 4 of the same year, Kaunas Zoo was awarded the name of the Republican Zoo. During this period, it was greatly expanded and maintained, new aviaries and pavilions were built, and the collection of animals increased every year. At that time, the garden grew from a meager collection and from wooden buildings to an almost modern one with almost 3,000 animals and over 400 species of zoo. The collection consisted of a significant number of rare and endangered animals included in the International Red Data Book. The Lithuanian Zoo was famous for the successful breeding of rare and endangered animal species, such as yellow-throated marten, whose pup was born in 1973, the second case in the world, and the snow leopard, born in 1962, was the first case in the Soviet Union. Amur and Bengal tigers, cheetahs, leopards, hippos and many others successfully bred. The Lithuanian Zoo is a candidate member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA) and has been participating in the European Rare and Endangered Animals Breeding Program (EEP) since 1992.