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gelb-rosa Hibiscus, "Kembang Sepatu", Shoe Flower

seen at Burgers' Zoo, Arnhem, Netherlands

 

Burgers' Zoo is a 45-hectare (110-acre) zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and is one of the biggest zoos in the country. Arnhem is a city that lies within the Veluwe, a nature park in the east of the Netherlands. The zoo is popular with both Dutch and German people, and receives about 1.5 million visitors annually.

Exhibits

The zoo has 8 theme sites:

•Burgers' Dierenpark (the original zoo).

•Burgers' Safari (a safari park).

•Burgers' Bush is a 1.5-hectare (3.7-acre) indoor tropical rainforest.[2]

•Burgers' Mangrove (a mangrove swamp).

•Burgers' Desert (focusing on the Sonoran Desert).

•Burgers' Ocean is a 8,000,000-litre (2,100,000 USgal) seawater aquarium duplicating a tropical reef, and is home to living corals, coral fishes, sharks, rays, and other aquatic animals.[2]

•Burgers' Avonturenland (the zoo's playground), opened in 2002).

•Burgers' Rimba (the zoo's newest attraction), opened in 2008. The Rimba gives visitors an impression of a Southeast Asian rainforest. The animals in this display include Sumatran tigers, sun bears, binturongs, Golden-cheeked Gibbons, dusky leaf monkeys, Sri Lankan leopards, golden jackals, banteng, muntjac, hog deer, Eld's deer, siamang, pig-tailed macaque, reticulated python, and water monitor.

•Burgers' Kids Jungle (Indoor playground in the theme of a South-American village, opened in 2012)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgers%27_Zoo

 

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