Antwerp Zoo

Antwerp Zoo is a zoo in the centre of Antwerp, Belgium, located subsequent to the Antwerpen-Centraal railway station. It is the oldest animal park inside the united states of america, and one of the oldest inside the global, installed on 21 July 1843. Since its basis, the park has been managed with the aid of De Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen, a society at the beginning called Société Royale de Zoologie d'Anvers The Antwerp Royal Society for Zoology. This also have become the famous nickname for the zoo, "De Zoologie". The initial goal became to inspire zoological and botanical sciences. Its first director changed into famend zoologist and botanist Jacques Kets . He time-honored this role on one condition:

a museum needed to be built to residence his nature-historic collections. This constructing changed into inaugurated in 1844 by H.M. King Leopold I. The predicate Royal become delivered to the name of the society on that occasion. In its early years, the dimensions of the park grew from much less than 1.Fifty nine hectares three.Nine acres to more than 10.5 hectares 26 acres. Notable buildings from that period are the Egyptian temple 1856 and the antelope building 1861 in Oriental fashion, which now homes the okapis.