A few facts and figures

Food
Alfalfa, fruits, vegetables, meat, compound feed: meals for the zoo’s 1,600 inhabitants are varied and top notch! Devised by the vet then placed under the responsibility of individual keepers, the food rations are adapted to the animals’ nutritional needs and regularly adjusted if they are pregnant, breastfeeding or have a medical problem.
Each year, animals at the zoo consume:
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250 tof fodder (giraffes, elephants, zebras, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, antelopes...)
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180 tof fresh fruit and vegetables (gorillas, orangutans, gibbons, marmosets, lemurs, kangaroos, bats, tortoises...)
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50 tof meat (lions, leopards, jaguars, cheetahs, lynxes, tigers...)
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30 tof compound feed (pink flamingos, primates, red pandas...)
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20 tof fish (sea lions, black-footed penguins,
pelicans, otters...) -
10 tof grains and assorted cereals (parrots, hornbills, Bali starlings...)
The zoo
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18
hectares
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4,2 km
Length of visitor route
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600 000
Annual number of visitors
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16 000
Record number of visitor in a day (August)
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55
Number of employees year-round
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110
Number of employees in high season
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40
keepers
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1600
animals
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110
species
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28
primate species
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200- 250
annual number of births