В начале прошлого века в Беларуси появился первый zoo. Grodno initially had only a botanical garden on its territory, and then its part was taken for animals. Thus, in 1927, the Grodno Zoological Park, the most famous in our time, appeared and began to develop gradually, which now numbers more than 3000 individuals representing more than 300 species of animals.
Grodno Zoo is located in the city centernear the train station. The exact address of its location: Timiryazev Street, 11. If you suddenly get lost in the city, do not doubt that every passer-by knows how to find the zoo of Grodno. Working hours of the zoological park on weekdays: from 10.00 to 19.00. On weekends and holidays, the ticket office starts half an hour earlier and ends half an hour later. After closing the cashier on the territory of the zoo, you can walk for about an hour.
Террариум, расположенный на территории Grodno Zoo, has its own mode of operation. It always starts functioning from 10.00. On Monday and Thursday it closes at 15.00, and on other weekdays - at 20.00. On weekends and holidays, the visit to the terrarium ends at 20.30.
According to numerous reviews of visitorsIt is best to go for a walk through the zoological park of Grodno to go as soon as it opens. There are at least two reasons for this. First, at 10 o'clock in the morning there are the least of all people, which will eliminate the need to stand in a long line and give some quiet and cozy hours in solitude with representatives of nature. Secondly, animals are most active at this time, and they can be well considered.
Walking through the park at lunchtime, you can stumbleon the feeding process, and the sight of a bloody dinner of predators can pretty spoil the impression. If it is summer in the courtyard, the animals tend to hide in secluded places from the midday heat, so they can never be seen until evening. As for the few hours before closing, they are not the best time to visit the zoo due to the fact that some of its residents, especially birds, have a habit of early settling for the night.
In order to make a trip to the zoo of Grodno,autumn, spring and cool days of summer are better. Visiting it in the fall, you will see animals in the most magnificent form, well-fed and with fluffy wool. In the spring, some residents of the zoo may seem sick and neglected. On hot days, animals hide from the sun, and in frosty days - from the cold.
Both children and adults will be interesting and unusualto observe at a distance of several meters how large and small predators behave, with which the zoo Grodno is rich. Animals there have enough free aviaries, so they feel comfortable. Visitors can see noble tigers, clumsy bears, mysterious wolves, graceful lions, leopards and pumas, gloomy hyenas and other predatory fauna.
The zoo aviaries also contain smaller ones.individuals of the predatory detachment. You can meet a fox, a ferret, a raccoon, an arctic fox, a mongoose, an otter, a forest cat, and so on. You can also find in the zoo and herbivorous representatives of the fauna.
Grodno Zoo is ready to surprise its visitorsan unusual-looking pet with thick tree-like branched horns, called the Alpine maral or an equally interesting-looking red-headed goat. The zoo also has a maned sheep, guanaco, two-humped and one-humped camels, an awesome yak, fallow deer, mouflon, aurochs (found in the Red Book of the Republic of Belarus), a lama, a deer of David, a pony and other animals.
If the predators are practically none of the visitorsseeks to feed, then all herbivores and strive to treat all sorts of goodies. However, feeding animals in the zoo is strictly prohibited. Visiting the Babushkin Dvorik site for an additional fee, you can get a lot of pleasure from close communication with contact animals, such as monkeys. Here you can make cute photos for memory.
Самой большой классовой группой животных в the zoo are birds. Sukhonos, griffon vulture, golden, gray and common pheasants, curly pelican, common peacock, variegated rosella, pink flamingo, gray heron, blue-yellow macaw, starling, bullfinch, steppe eagle and other birds warmly welcome visitors.
Visiting the zoo Grodno, it is worth a look and in hisa terrarium where you can contemplate various species of snakes, frogs, bearded agamus, crocodile caiman, common iguana and other members of this group. For a fee, you can get on the feeding of reptiles.
Some of the additional features are alreadyfor example, a visit to the “Grandmother’s Yard” (a day off on Monday and Tuesday) was mentioned. For a fee, you can order a tour of one of the proposed topics, a New Year's excursion or a tour of “Birthday”. On the territory of the zoo, you can ride a horse, train or trolley. Photography with animals also has its fee. Employees of the Grodno Zoo conduct free and paid field lectures, as well as provide consulting services for the care of exotic animals.
Probably no one was left disappointed by visitingZoo Grodno. The photo with his beloved animal, made on its territory, still serves as a wonderful memory of those wonderful moments of reunion with the wildlife of our planet. It is a pity that a person cannot constantly contemplate the beauty of wild animals, but thanks to such zoos, he can be proud that he has ever seen them in his life.
