Plzeň Zoo
Pavilion of cheetah, pygmy hippopotamus and bee-eaters
49°45′28″N 13°21′36″E / 49.757778°N 13.36°E / 49.757778; 13.36
Date opened	1926 [1]
Location	Pod Vinicemi 9, 301 16 Plzeň 1 [1]
Land area	21 hectares [1]
No. of animals	6 500 [1]
No. of species	1 300 [1]
Memberships	EEP, EAZA [1]
Website	zooplzen.cz

Plzeň Zoo (Zoologická a botanická zahrada města Plzně) is a Czech zoo, located in Plzeň in Czech Republic. After Liberec Zoo it is the second oldest zoo in the Czech Republic, founded in 1926 ^[1] on the river banks of the river Radbuza.

Plzen zoo has 40 species of animals from EEP European Endangered Species Programme and is responsible for the European studbook for Dwarf and Thick tailed Maki. ^[1]

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  A lion, possibly of the subspecies Panthera leo leo
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  Plzeň Zoo breeds many species of lemur.

• Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent Czech-language Wikipedia article. Retrieved on 10 December 2014. Some of the following references are cited by that Czech-language article:

• Official website
• Plzen Zoo on zooinstitutes.com

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