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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Prohibition of dogs

Pejsci k nám nesmějí

Ostrava Zoo is specific:

  • 100 hectares of forest of free-living animals such as rabbits, deer, etc.
  • open paddocks with low barriers
  • plenty of rare and often frightened small animals

In the past we have had many unpleasant experiences. Dogs often attack smaller species of deer, most of them did not survive this attack. In a closed-range deer had no chance and we do not want to raise the fence, on the contrary, we would like them to be as little as possible.

The biggest loss we have suffered long ago, when a dog ran into the paddock flamingos. Although only the fun and none of them bite, the balance was terrible - 11 dead flamingos who have been under stress. In addition to financial loss (at the time, a flaming cost about 80,000, - CZK), for years we have failed to reproduce flamingos.

From the above reasons and based on negative experiences are non-entry of dogs into the Ostrava Zoo.

The prohibition does not apply to dogs and guide dogs assistants.

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