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 From the beginning of the visit, you see the red pandas, the Asiatic “fire-foxes”, endangered. During this circuit, you will see rare animals like in the “safari” part, but sometimes smaller.
A little bit farther, Przewalski horses, the last wild horses in the world, live with Bactrian camels, like in the Mongolian plains.
South America
is also represented:
3 species of macaw, the biggest parrots, are facing the Patagonian Cavies, the capybaras and the tapirs. The discrete maned wolf observes them from the top of its long legs…
However, the maned wolf can’t compete with the giraffe, native of
Africa
, the tallest animal on earth! The breeding group of Peaugres lives in an enclosure facing the castle which accommodates the vivarium and its many snakes and lizards!
Don’t forget to go to the aquatic area where you can see a colony of more than 50 black-footed penguins, as clumsy on earth as they are agile in water! Californian sea lions, swimming champions too, observe them from the beach where they like to have a siesta. |
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Then you come to the primates’ accommodation. Here live squirrel monkeys, mandrills, colobus, tamarins, marmosets, sakis, spider monkeys, etc.
Madagascar
island, a unique biodiversity reservoir, is represented by the red ruffed and the ringed-tailed lemurs, which share an enclosure open to visitors (be careful: dogs are not allowed in this enclosure, even on a leash!).
Children will probably want to stay for a longer time in the new mini-farm (opening in spring 2008) where some will certainly learn, among other things, that milk doesn’t appear directly in a bottle or a pack!
Then, the atmosphere changes, the big cats are now watching you… Cheetahs and snow leopards, quite shy animals, are hidden in the grass or between the rocks. A little bit farther, lions and tigers invite you to an unforgettable face to face, thanks to the glass tunnel crossing their enclosures. On the other side of the footbridge, European wolves and African painted dogs sound like their echo.
The visit ends with the Vietnamese sika deers, a long-gone species in the wild, and the raptors. Oh, look! One of the owls oddly resembles the one belonging to a world-famous young wizard wearing glasses, but which species does it belong to?
Numerous species are facing extinction. Some of them, the rarest, belong to European Endangered Species Programs (EEP) : Rothschild giraffes, bongo antelopes, Arabian oryx, red panda, cotton-top tamarins, Bolivian squirrel monkeys, etc…
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