Miskolc Zoo

Miskolc Zoo is a zoo in Miskolc, Hungary. Although its professional call is Miskolc Varosi Vadaspark Wildlife Park of Miskolc it's miles truely a zoo due to the fact the animals are kept in cages. Its first predecessor become the royal game park founded by way of King Louis I in 1355. Today's zoo become opened on 20 August 1983. It may be located inside the Csanyik, a large park within the outskirts of Miskolc, proper subsequent to the Bukk National Park, in a place of 212,000 rectangular metres.

The zoo became built inside a hundred days through voluntary service. Originally, it become a flora and fauna park displaying the wild animals of the encompassing Bükk mountains. Today no longer handiest nearby wild animals can be visible here, but also exclusive animals like camels, monkeys, parrots, tigers, and leopards. The zoo has about 730 extraordinary species. One of the particular features is the statue park where lifelike statues of extinct animals are exhibited. Its most important cause is to name people's interest to the importance of keeping natural world. Statues of famous naturalists can also be visible right here, amongst them the primary Gerald Durrell statue of the world.