📜 Jihlava Zoo is a zoological garden located in a picturesque valley of the Jihlávka Stream in Jihlava, Czech Republic.
🔍 Established in 1957 and officially recognized as a zoo in 1982, it joined the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) in 1994.
☀️ The zoo is home to around 1,500 animals from 260 species, specializing in big carnivores, monkeys, reptiles, and felines. It boasts the largest collection of clawed monkeys in the Czech Republic and is the only zoo in the country to keep babirusa.
🏄♀️ Explore themed expositions like the African village Matongo, Asian park Hokkaidó, Hacienda Escondido, Australian Farm, African Savannah, and a new Reptile Pavilion.
🎾 Children can enjoy a non-traditionally designed children's corner with slides, climbing frames, cableways, and one of the longest toboggans in the Czech Republic. The rope centre PraLEZ is also nearby.
👨👩👧👦 The Environmental Educational Centre PodpoVrch organizes courseware programs, and visitors can symbolically adopt animals to support their care, with contributions ranging from 1,000 CZK to 20,000 CZK annually, or via QR codes from 50 CZK.
🎶 The zoo offers special late evening tours with a zoologist to observe nocturnal animal behavior.
✈️ The zoo is surrounded by the large Small and Large Heulos park, offering a quiet zone with footpaths.
🚫 Free-roaming animal programs, such as with Marmosets and Tamarins, had to be discontinued due to visitors feeding the animals despite warnings.
🚶♀️ Some rare and endangered nocturnal species, like the giant Malagasy rats, may be overlooked by visitors during regular daytime visits.
🚌 The zoo is conveniently located just 10 minutes by foot from downtown Jihlava.