Dubai Zoo Inwards Dubai

Dubai Zoo (Arabic: ‎حديقة حيوان دبي) was originally built inwards 1967 yesteryear a Dubai resident when H. H. Sheikh Rashid bin Maktoum, the belatedly Ruler of Dubai, permitted Otto J. Bulart to gear upwards a zoo on a 2 hectare plot inwards Jumeirah. It is yet the oldest zoo inwards the Arabian Peninsula. It was considered a Dubai landmark inwards the belatedly 1960s every bit it indicated the "town's end".

In 1971 the management of the Dubai Zoo was taken over yesteryear the Dubai Municipality. During the source twosome of years of its existence, the Dubai Zoo housed exclusively a few animals similar the large cats, monkeys too hoofed-animals.

There was too a pocket-size aquarium with some fishes too reptiles. From May 1986 to May 1989, a purpose of the Zoo was redesigned too rebuilt. From June 1989 to the acquaint at that topographic point has been constant re-designing too renovation. Dubai zoo is the source Arabian zoo to breed the rare Chimpanzee too the Arabian or Gordon's wildcat (Felis silvestris gordoni).

In recent years, the Dubai Zoo has come upwards nether burn downward for the weather condition inwards which its animals are housed. Animal rights activists too fifty-fifty hotels too tourist websites encourage the boycotting of the facility. Cages inwards which the animals are trapped inwards are reportedly too thence pocket-size that the animals tin barely move.

Animals

The zoo houses to a greater extent than or less 230 beast species. with these are about 248 mammal specimens, including foxes, hyenas, pumas, lions, jaguars, chimpanzees, baboons, monkeys, deer, bears, porcupines, giraffes too Barbary sheep.

 Endangered species include Socotra shag or cormorant, Bengal tiger, gorilla, subspecies of greyish wolf too Arabian wolf, Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), too the indigenous Gordon's wildcat. Bird include ostrich, golden eagle too parrots. Reptiles are represented yesteryear about 400 specimens.

Visitation too opening hours

Dubai Zoo attracts annually a large disclose of visitors. In 2008 the disclose of visitors was 336,346.

Opening hours during summertime are 10 am to six pm, too 10 am to 5:30 pm during winter.

New Dubai Zoo

Dubai Municipality has planned to gear upwards a novel Zoo for a disclose of years. Media reports since at to the lowest degree 2003 stated that the planning for a novel zoo was nether way.

Construction would last completed yesteryear 2008 too would last sited variously at Mushrif Park or Dubailand at an estimated terms of USD 55.6 meg or AED 610 million. The projection was expected to last completed inwards 2008.In Feb 2009, it was announced that the zoo projection at Dubailand was on indefinite hold.