About zoo

About zoo
Omega (pictured), a two-year-old breeding female, settled into her enclosure back in September.  Photo: Oliver Le Que, Prague Zoo

Thanks to Prague Zoo’s “Bison in Prague” project, Europe's largest land mammals will once again roam free in Dolní Počernice. The herd of three female European bison will soon be joined by a bull, who is on his way from Finland. Together, they will both enlarge the species’ numbers, it almost became extinct! They will...

History

The history of Prague Zoo goes all the way back to the year 1881, when, on the occasion of the wedding of Crown Prince Rudolf and Princess Stephanie of Belgium, Count Sweerts-Sporck published an open letter in the newspapers calling for the establishment of a zoological garden in Prague.


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