Malacca Zoo, officially the Malacca Zoo and Night Safari, is a 54-acre (22 ha) zoological park located beside Lebuh Ayer Keroh (Federal Route 143) in Ayer Keroh, Malacca, Malaysia, which hosts more than 1200 animals including 215 species of birds, amphibians, reptiles, mammals.[3] It is the second-largest zoo in Malaysia behind the National Zoo of Malaysia, both were established in 1963. The zoo acts as both a rescue base and an animal sanctuary and was initially owned by the Malacca State Government, but its management was taken over by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks of Malaysia in 1979 and later opened to the public by the then Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad on 13 August 1987.[4]
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| 2°16′40″N 102°18′6″E / 2.27778°N 102.30167°E | |
| Date opened | 1963 13 August 1987 (to public) |
| Location | Ayer Keroh, Malacca, Malaysia |
| Land area | 54 acres (22 ha) |
| No. of animals | 554[1] |
| No. of species | 215 |
| Memberships | ISO 9001:2000, SEAZA[2] |
| Website | www |
Malacca Zoo was the first zoo in Malaysia to exhibit the critically endangered Hedgehogs and Meerkats. Other species exhibited in the zoo, both local and foreign, included African spurred tortoise, white rhinoceros, blue wildebeest, Asian elephants, red panda, Malaysian gaur, the serow, the squirrel monkey, the molurus python, the grey wolf, the Mongolian wild horse, the green tree python, iguanas, common marmoset, slow loris, common hill myna, fennec foxs, indian muntjac, capybara, malayan tapirs, the indian flying fox, peacocks, common emerald dove, crowned pigeons, the plains zebras, Rothschild's giraffe, Sambar deer, Lechwe, Waterbuck, Ankole cattle, Banteng, nilgai, deer, ostriches, emus, southern cassowaries, Sri Lankan leopards, panthers, african lions, asian small-clawed otters, false gharial, saltwater crocodile, cage great hornbills, rhinoceros hornbills, moluccan cockatoo, indian peafowl, servals, eurasian lynxs, leopard cat, binturong, turtles, siamangs, spider monkeys, white handed gibbons, bornean orangutans, sun bears, mandrillss, chimpanzees, ring tailed lemurs, brown lemurs, an ape at the alligator snapping turtles, burmese pythons, buffy fish owls, wallaby, the blue-and-yellow macaw, barred eagle owl, spotted wood owl, Scarlet Macaw, and also the Indochinese tiger as well as the Malayan tiger.[5][6][7]
Attractions
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Some other attractions at the zoo includes:
See also
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edit- ^ "Decision soon on Melaka Zoo and Night Safari".
- ^ "SEAZA Membership List". seaza.org. SEAZA. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
- ^ Zoo Melaka info at Cuti.com. – Malacca Zoo Retrieved on 10 August 2008.
- ^ Melaka Zoo's history. Archived 10 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ List of mammals --Mammals. Archived 5 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ List of birds --Birds. Archived 5 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ List of Reptiles --Reptiles. Archived 5 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Zoo Melaka --Mini Safari Archived 4 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Malacca Zoo's Attraction --Attractions/Activities Archived 10 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Malacca Zoo --Night Zoo notification Archived 10 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
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