Guangzhou Zoo has more than 450 species (20 13) of mammals, reptiles, birds and fish selected from all over the country and the world, and more than 4,500 animals, many of which belong to the world's rare birds and animals. There are 35 species of national first-class protected animals such as giant panda, golden monkey and black-necked crane, and 32 species of national second-class protected animals such as red panda and white-naped crane.
Guangzhou Zoo is also a plant exhibition garden. There are more than 200 kinds of trees planted in the park, with more than 20 100000 trees.
Chinese Name: Guangzhou Zoo mbth: Guangzhou Zoo Category: Zoo Location: Huanshi Road Entrance (South Gate), Xianlie Middle Road 120, Guangzhou. Completion time: 1958 Opening hours: summer (April 16 ~ 10/5) and winter (10/0/6 ~ 4 15). Ticket price from October to 65438+February: 20.00 yuan, suggested duration: 2-3 hours, suitable season: 65438+1October-65438+February, required reading before departure, insect museum in scenic spot, bird exhibition area, aquarium, other museums, special animals, scientific research bases, scientific research teams, scientific research achievements and scientific research trends. 1950, Yonghan Park was renamed People's Park (now Guangzhou Children's Park). 1May, 955, officially named Guangzhou Zoo. In July, 1956, the Mayinggang area of Xianlie Road was requisitioned as the new site of the zoo. 1958 10, the new site is opened. Since 2006, the park has been recognized as Guangzhou Science Education Base, Guangdong Youth Science and Technology Education Base and National Youth Science and Technology Education Base. In 2007, Guangzhou participated in the national advanced unit of popular science working day. In 2009, Guangzhou * * * wanted to move the zoo to Maofeng Mountain, but it failed because of the high relocation cost and public opposition. In August, 20 14, Guangzhou Zoo completed the upgrading design with a total investment of 8 1.53 million yuan. Layout of the park: Guangzhou Zoo, from the south gate to the east, including: science museum, playground, animal training and performance field. From the north gate to the east are Butterfly Pavilion, Aquarium, Veterinary Hospital, Science and Education Building, Panlong Garden, Popular Science Corridor and Funny Garden. There is Jinlin Garden and a bird's eye view near the west. The Animal Square is located in the center of Guangzhou Zoo. The animal hall orangutan hall is located at the entrance of the north gate of Guangzhou Zoo. It was officially rebuilt in March 2006 and officially opened at the end of the year. The original orangutan hall only had a few shabby iron cages, and the area was relatively small. The new orangutan hall covers an area of about 3000 square meters, including a garden-style sports ground of 2000 square meters. The exhibition area is divided into two parts: indoor glass exhibition hall and outdoor exhibition hall. On the first floor of the indoor exhibition hall, there are eight air-conditioned rest rooms for animals and two glass exhibition halls for observing orangutans at "zero distance", which are made of four layers of thick laminated safety glass; The observation deck on the second floor provides visitors with a new perspective to observe the living habits of animals from a height. The main facade of the landscape adopts large stone cliffs and waterfalls as the main landscape, and the original mountaineering plants and log trees are used to create an ecological and natural orangutan habitat. Garden-style animal playground is isolated in the form of trenches and power grids, and animal display is integrated with mountains and rivers to form a rich ecological landscape. After the orangutan hall was completed, it became a new symbol of the landscape at the entrance of the north gate. In 2006, the project was awarded as "Excellent Scenic Spot" in the inspection and appraisal of the "Cotton Tree Cup" labor competition in Guangzhou Park Management. Kangaroo hall Kangaroo hall is located next to the animal square in the zoo. Kangaroo Hall adopts the latest design techniques, enhances the characteristic layout of the garden in the cage, and builds a wooden plank road and glass railings on the animal playground according to the characteristics of animals, which is convenient for tourists to watch the animals in this area. Greening the inside and outside of the stadium and increasing the roof greening, this natural decoration makes the ecological characteristics of the cage more prominent. The museum was rebuilt in 2006 and opened to the public. Insect Museum The Insect Museum is located in the Butterfly Museum and was built in 2004. There are more than a dozen insects on display, such as bees, mantis, ants and beetles. Bird Exhibition Area Bird Grand View Area is located in the central and western part of the park. The bird's-eye view scenic spot covering an area of about 8,000 square meters was completed and fully opened on May 1 2006. The total investment of the scenic spot project is about 3 million yuan. The whole project is divided into two phases, the first phase is the infrastructure construction of ostrich area and stocking area; In the second phase, exhibition cages, wooden plank roads and ecological greening layout will be built in the stocking area. Aquarium Guangzhou Aquarium, located in Guangzhou Zoo, has been open to tourists since 1997. It is a multi-functional large-scale high-tech exhibition hall integrating entertainment, appreciation, scientific research and education. It is a blue underwater world with marine fish as its main feature, with an area of about 1.3 million square meters. It is the "National Popular Science Education Base", "Guangdong Youth Science and Technology Education Base" and "Guangdong Ocean Popular Science Education Base". The aquarium covers an area of 6.5438+0.5 million square meters, and there are more than 200 kinds of fish and other marine life in the museum. The whole museum is divided into several areas, displaying the marine world in an all-round way, including: undersea tunnel, deep-sea wonders algae tank, treasure tank, tropical rain forest, touch pool, shark tank, turtle tank, Penguin Pavilion, Science Museum, Hong Kong Ocean Park, sea lion paradise, Ocean Plaza and so on. These exhibition areas are planned and arranged according to the ecological environment, living habits, species and varieties of different marine life. Hundreds of marine life from all over the world are displayed in large and small fish tanks. Yuan Jinlin Yuan Jinlin, another museum, is located next to the hippo pool in the zoo. Nearly 100 kinds of precious fish from all over the world are displayed in the park, and the number of fish exceeds 10 thousand. You can also enjoy fishing and lobster fishing in the park. It is a paradise for children's innocence. Jinlin Garden won the Guinness World Award. Butterfly Pavilion Butterfly Pavilion is located in the northeast of Guangzhou Zoo, with a total area of 1.250 square meters. It includes ecological butterfly flying garden, butterfly specimen museum (including butterfly specimens, butterfly popular science and distinctive butterfly art exhibition), living shell and specimen museum (including living corals, invertebrates such as shells and starfish and colorful shell specimens), which is the most distinctive ecological butterfly garden in China. The animal behavior exhibition hall consists of lions, tigers, bears, monkeys, goats, puppies, horses and other animals under the command of animal trainers. Dinosaur world Jurassic dinosaur world, based on some achievements of contemporary dinosaur research and modern technology, shows the audience a dinosaur world. Give the audience the enlightenment of science. The excellent lawn in the excellent lawn garden is located on the hillside at the foot of Monkey Mountain, which is all paved with big leaf oil grass. The central government created the emblem of Guangzhou Zoo with colorful plants. It was rated as excellent lawn by Guangzhou Bureau of Landscape Architecture. There are three lakes in the middle of Guangzhou Zoo, with fountains, small islands where animals live and many free-range birds. Swim around freely. There are pavilions in many places by the lake, and the scenery is beautiful. Yi Long, the mother Asian elephant of Harvey, an African elephant, is a gift from Ho Chi Minh, a former Vietnamese national leader, to Guangzhou children in 1960. She was 2 1 year old when she entered the park. After coming to Guangzhou Zoo, they tied the knot with Babao, the Asian elephant who entered the park at 1959, and successively bred four Asian elephants, including two sons, Baolong (born at 1976 on April 25th) and Yuelong (born at 1980 on June 5th). In 2008, the Central Plains introduced a female Asian elephant "Manling" from Hainan, and cooperated with Baolong and Yuelong brothers to breed. White rhinoceros and African elephant 1979, Guangzhou Zoo introduced a pair of white rhinoceros named Taishan and Huashan from San Diego Zoo, USA. His wife Huashan died in September 2007 at the age of 34, and her husband Taishan was 35. He has been living in Guangzhou Zoo and is a famous longevity star in the park. 1984165438+1On October 4th, the park introduced a pair of African elephants from the San Diego Zoo in the United States. Ha Hua (male) died in 2008, and Harvey (female) has been exhibited in Xiangshan. The Arabian Baboon in Frankfurt, Germany is one of the sister cities of Guangzhou. 1995, Frankfurt presented 15 Arabian baboons to Guangzhou citizens. Chimpanzee On February 1 day, 2002, Guangzhou Zoo introduced a chimpanzee (male) named David from Tekolili Berec Zoo through animal exchange. In 2004, she and the chimpanzee mother "Black Girl" successfully gave birth to their daughter Yingya. Fukuoka is the first sister city in Guangzhou. On June 65438+1 October1day, 2003, Handa (English name: kanta), a male hippopotamus from Fukuoka Zoo in Japan, settled in Guangzhou Zoo. This hippo was born in Japan on February 26th, 2000. After coming to Guangzhou Zoo, she tied the knot with the female hippo born in this park. Handa was 9 years old in 2009, and she and Qingqing are already the parents of three children. The research team of Hippo Research Base Guangzhou Zoo set up a research center in June 2002. It is equipped with technicians with high professional titles and high academic qualifications, including senior engineers and doctors, specializing in wildlife protection research, including microbiology laboratory, nutrition analysis room, artificial assisted reproductive research room, artificial incubation room, brooding room and research base covering an area of 60,000 square meters. From June 5438 to February 2005, the function of popular science education was added on the basis of scientific research, and the scientific research center was renamed as the Ministry of Science and Technology, with 7 professional technicians and 0/2 skilled workers. From 2002 to 20 13, more than 400 animals such as golden monkey, red-crowned crane, red panda, leopard, squirrel monkey, white wildebeest and sika deer were raised here. Since the establishment of the scientific research center, practical technologies such as caging and enrichment of animals and moderate domestication have been explored and popularized. In 2004, red pandas were successfully bred in Guangzhou for the first time. In 2005, the project "Study on Artificial Insemination and * * * Preservation of Chimpanzees" was officially established in Zhao Xianzhong Zoo, a difficult enterprise problem in Guangzhou, and became one of the award-winning projects in Guangzhou 13. In 2006, the problem of beak and toe deformity of red-crowned crane was eliminated; From June 5438 to 10, 2007, the expert appraisal committee organized by Guangzhou Science and Technology Bureau unanimously determined that the "nutrition and reproduction research of South China tiger" completed by the park reached the "international advanced level"; In 2008, the research team successfully overcame all technical obstacles of artificial insemination and preservation of chimpanzees, and the chimpanzees preserved for 18 months still maintained a high level of vitality. Scientific research trends: Japanese and French media have come to the park to report the series of popular science education activities of "Animals and Earthquakes". On June 4, 2008, CNN broadcasted the protection and research of the South China Tiger in the park to the whole world. In 2006, Mr. Ilkka Hannula, chairman of Finland's "Finnish-Chinese Friendship Association", made a special trip to Guangzhou Zoo to film the protection and research of the South China Tiger, "in order to return to China to publicize China's contribution to wildlife protection". Honors Guangzhou Zoo was awarded the honorary title of "Top Ten Zoos" by the Ministry of Construction and China Zoo Association, and won the honors of "Advanced Unit in Guangdong Tourism Quality Competition" and "Model of Civilized Unit in Guangzhou". China wildlife conservation association and Guangzhou, Guangdong Province * * * were awarded as "National Wildlife Conservation Science Education Base", "Guangdong Youth Science Education Base", "Guangdong Earthquake Prevention and Disaster Reduction Science Education Base" and "Guangzhou Science Popularization Base". Visit information address Guangzhou Zoo is located in Xianlie Middle Road, Guangzhou 120. Guangzhou Zoo Ticket Information Full Ticket (20 yuan) Guangzhou Zoo Guide Map An adult can only bring a child under 1.2m in height for free. Children with a height of 1.2 m- 1.5 m, teenagers aged 6- 18 with valid ID cards, full-time undergraduate students with student ID cards and senior citizens aged 60-65 in Guangzhou with social security cards for the elderly can enjoy half tickets (10 yuan). Children under the age of 6 with valid identity documents or children under the height of 1.2 meters, 65-year-old people in Guangzhou with social security cards for the elderly, disabled people with household registration in this city, active servicemen, honorary servicemen and special care recipients are free of charge. Opening hours: 8: 30- 17: 30 Guangzhou Aquarium Performance Time:11:0014: 00-16: 00 Weekend:10: 30. Mermaid performance time in Ming Dynasty:10: 00-1:5013: 00-15: 00 weekdays: 9: 50-1. 38+02: 0013:10-15:10 weekend:10: 00-16: 4013:. Kloc-0/92, 199, 20 1, 2 19, 236, 246, 290, 535, 547, 833, 862, 862B, night 5, night 69, night 766. Peak express lines 36544280, 287, 30 1, 30 1A, 545, 8 10/0,886,886a, 14, 19, 25, 4. Service Facilities of Zoo Station of Louba Night Line MRT Line 5 in South China New City In 2006, Guangzhou Zoo established a visitor service center, which is located on the west side of the north gate of Guangzhou Zoo and on the first floor of the park office building. The visitor service center is equipped with VIP reception room and lounge, which provides services such as consultation and luggage temporary storage for tourists, and provides sightseeing bus, wheelchair for the disabled, baby stroller, umbrella, gadgets, sewing kit, drinking water, common first-aid medicines and other convenient facilities. Guangzhou Zoo has guide maps at the main intersections of the park.