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20 organizations, including EAZA,[3] WAZA,[4] and Swiss Zoos
Major exhibits
Africa, Antilope House, Aquarium, Australis, Birdhouse, Elephant House, Etoscha, Gamgoas, Kinderzoo, Monkey House, and Rhino Exhibit in the Sautergarden
Website
www.zoobasel.ch
Share of the AG des zoologischen Gartens in Basel, issued 20. February 1872
Zoo Basel is a non-profit zoo in the city of Basel, Switzerland. Its official name is Zoologischer Garten Basel — or in English: Basel Zoological Garden. Basel residents affectionately call it Zolli.[5] Its main entrance is just outside Basel's downtown strip of Steinen-Vorstadt and extends in the Birsig stream valley to Basel's city border with Binningen, Basel-Country.
Zoo Basel is Switzerland's oldest (1874) and largest zoo (by number of animals). With over 1.8 million visitors per year,[2] it is the most visited tourist attraction in Switzerland with an entrance fee.[5]
Zoo Basel was ranked as one of the fifteen best zoos in the world by Forbes Traveler in 2008[6] and in 2009 as the seventh best in Europe by Anthony Sheridan from the Zoological Society of London.[7]
The zoo had the first Indian rhinoceros birth in a zoo,[8] as well as the first greater flamingo hatch.[9] It has had repeated breeding success with animals including cheetahs (18 births),[10] okapi (22),[11] pygmy hippopotamuses (53),[12] and flamingos (over 400 hatches).[13] Every Somali wild ass (a donkey) in zoos worldwide is related to the population in Basel, where this species' zoological breeding program was started.[14]
Zoo Basel is undergoing the most expensive expansion in its history. These include the indoor and outdoor renovation of the monkeyhouse (2011–2012 / Fr. 30 millions), the zoo restaurant renovation/expansion (2015 / Fr. 16 millions) [15] and a new elephant house and outdoor exhibit (2016 / Fr. 28 millions).[16] In the near future, further expansions into the current parking lot and to the south are planned. [17]
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^ abZoo Archived July 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Basel Tourismus, retrieved 2010-5-29
^Minh Tu Nguyen & Rachel Slaff, "The world's best zoos", Forbes Traveler, November 2007; Forbes Travel . GetListy, retrieved 2010-3-26
^Anthony D. Sheridan, "Europe's Leading Zoological Gardens, 2008", International Zoo News, Vol.56/5 (No.374), July/August 2009, pp.260-268; (in German) Zolli gehört zu den zehn besten Archived 2012-02-20 at the Wayback Machine. Basler Zeitung, published 2009-5-14
^(in German) Eröffnung des Panzernashornhauses Archived February 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Zoo Basel, written 2006-09-26, retrieved 2009-12-3
^"Zoo celebrates 50 years of flamingo breeding". Basler Zeitung (in German). 2008-08-13. Archived from the original on 2009-03-22. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
^(in German) NACHZUCHT VON FÜNF JUNGEN GEPARDEN Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine. Zoo Basel, published 2007-11-14
^(in German) Das längste Okapi. webjournal.ch, retrieved 2010-05-31
^(in German) Zwergflusspferd zurück Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine. Zoo Basel, published 2008-06-11
^(in German) 50 Jahre Flamingozucht Archived 2009-03-22 at the Wayback Machine. Basler Zeitung, written 2008-08-13, retrieved 2010-05-31
^(in German) Somali-Wildesel Verband Deutscher Zoodirektoren, retrieved 2010-06-02
^"Start der Bauarbeiten Elefantenanlage und Restaurant".
^"Zolli erhält Baubewilligung für Elefantenanlage". Basler Zeitung.
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well as ZooBasel's unofficial name: locals lovingly call "their" zoo "Zolli" by which is it known throughout Basel and most of Switzerland. Basel has a...
are related to the original group at ZooBasel. As of January 18, 2012, there are four Somali wild donkeys in Basel: The stallion "Gigolo" (3) and three...
on 17 April 1961, in ZooBasel, Basel, Switzerland, to mother Achilla and father Stephi. Stephi was acquired from the Columbus Zoo in Ohio. Stephi was...
breeding programs at ZooBasel have had many highlights since the zoo's opening in 1874. These include the worldwide first zoo births of an Indian rhinoceros...
ISBN 978-0-674-40646-9. "ZooBasel". Zoobasel.ch. Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2013. "ZooBasel". Zoobasel.ch. Archived...
encroachment on their habitat. The first recorded zoo hatch was in 1959 at ZooBasel. In ZooBasel's breeding program, over 400 birds have been hatched...
The ZooBasel is constantly upgrading its infrastructure, but can hardly grow in area, as it is surrounded by the city of Basel, Switzerland, and, in...
Junge!". ZooBasel (in German). Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013. "Panzernashorngeburt im ZooBasel". ZooBasel. 2010...
hatched in a European zoo was a Chilean flamingo at ZooBasel in Switzerland in 1958. Since then, over 389 flamingos have grown up in Basel and been distributed...
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the "father of zoo biology". Hediger was formerly the director of Tierpark Dählhölzli (1938–1943), ZooBasel (1944–1953) and Zürich Zoo (1954–1973). Hediger...
crimson in color. The first flamingo hatched in a European zoo was a Chilean flamingo at ZooBasel (Switzerland) in 1958. In 1988, a Chilean flamingo that...
without entrance fee), and third, with over 1.8 million paid entries: ZooBasel. Most overnight stays in 2019 in Switzerland were from the following countries...
the Gotthard. The Viaduktstrasse in Basel – including the Birsig Viaduct [de], which is adjacent to the ZooBasel parking lot – was also the formation...
between crop milk and clutch size in Mourning Doves (.pdf) Smithsonian National Zoo article on Common Crowned Pigeon, includes paragraph on crop milk...
since the 1970s. The International Zoo Yearbook reported in 1977 that Stuttgart Zoo bred Phyllobates bicolor and ZooBasel bred Dendrobates auratus. The first...
successfully spawned in captivity was Polypterus endlicheri by Azuma in 1995. ZooBasel have been successful in breeding Polypterus in captivity. In December...
completed in 2024 Jambo Jambo was a gorilla who was born in 1961, in the ZooBasel, Switzerland. Jambo shot to international news stardom overnight on 31...
Internet Bird Collection (IBC) Guiera at ZooBasel / Switzerland Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine ZooBasel including map. Citizen science observations...
of authorities to permit potential pests. One of the few that do, the ZooBasel in Switzerland, has two thriving Macrotermes bellicosus populations –...
Leone. BaselZoo in Switzerland holds the international studbook and coordinates the entire captive pygmy hippo population that freely breeds in zoos around...
examples include London Zoo's Monkey Valley; ZooBasel's Monkey house/exhibit; the Monkey Tropic House at Krefeld Zoo; Bronx Zoo's Monkey House; Monkey Jungle...
Newport, Kentucky, Edinburgh Zoo and Birdland in the United Kingdom, Berlin Zoological Garden in Germany, Zurich Zoo and ZooBasel in Switzerland, Diergaarde...
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