Information from Ostrava Zoo

What else Ostrava Zoo offers its visitors?

  • about 350 animal species in 3000 specimens bred at area of 100 ha
  • children´s contact zoo, children´s playgrounds and attraction refreshments, train trip, souvenirs from zoo
  • barrier-free access to all pavilions, toilets for disabled people, elements for the blind

What you should not do at Ostrava Zoo?

  • Enter the grounds with dogs or other animals
  • Enter the area with toy balloons
  • Feed, disturb and tease animals. Feeding restrictions do not apply to pellets sold via vending machines and designed for selected groups of animals
  • Climb over rails and walk outside marked visitor paths
  • Move around with the use of bicycles, skates, skate-boards, scooters and ride-on toys

Opening hours

November, December, January
9,00 – 16,00

February
9,00 – 17,00

March, September, October
9,00 – 18,00

April – August
9,00 – 19,00

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Chitwan

This block of exhibits for the Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) and a group of Northern Plains grey langurs (Semnopithecus entellus) meets the strictest requirements for keeping animals in modern zoos, replacing dated and unsatisfactory facilities built in the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibit is named after the oldest national park in Nepal, where most of the animals presented here still live or did so in the past.

To make watching the animals in the large and highly-structured outdoor enclosure more comfortable, the amenities found along the fence include five viewing platforms boasting different types of architectural design. The land available to the animals stretches out over nearly 1.4 hectares, comprising woodland with mature trees and various pools of water. Here one may enjoy viewing animals ranging in an environment that mirrors their natural habitat.

In addition to bears and langurs, visitors can even observe a variety of mustelid - the Asian small otter (Aonyx cinerea). The main visitor platform features two large freshwater aquariums presenting fish species of Nepalese rivers.

See the video from Chitwan.