Allatkert🦉 Zoo 🐯 Budapest 2023 and Botanical Garden is the oldest zoo in Hungary

#Allatkert #Zoo #Budapest 2023 and #Botanical #Garden is the oldest zoo in Hungary and one of the oldest in the world.It has 1,072 animal species and is located within the City Park of Budapest, in the centre of the city, unusually for a zoo. The idea of the foundation dates back to 1820-30s but it opened only on 9 August 1866. It was an initiation of a group of patriots among others Ágoston Kubinyi, geologist József Szabó, Ágoston Kubinyi, the Director of the National Museum, József Gerenday, the Director of the Botanical Garden of Budapest, and János Xántus, a zoologist, ethnographer, and the first director of the zoo. At that time, the zoo displayed mainly Hungarian species and some rare species of monkeys, parrots, camels, and kangaroos, among others. Franz Joseph and Queen Elizabeth donated a giraffe and other animals to the zoo. The first lion house opened in 1876 with lions and tigers. An elephant, a hippopotamus, and a rhinoceros joined later on.

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