Dubai ZooAll the information about the Dubai ZooLocated in the popular and lush green suburb of Jumeirah, quite close to the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, you can often hear the sounds of wildlife emanating from Dubai Zoo. The oldest zoo of its kind, not only in the UAE but also on the whole of the Arabian Peninsula, it is the first Arabian zoo to breed the rare Chimpanzee and Arabian wild cat. 
The Zoo has been attracting visitors since it opened, and with recent modernisation, has become less like a prison, and increasingly moved towards the western ideal of passive conservation, and the housing of animals in a way similar to how they would live in the wild. The zoo houses nearly two hundred species of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish. The Arabian species in the zoo include gazelle, caracal, foxes, wolves, hyena, wild cat, flamingo, cormorant, herons, gulls, eagles, buzzards, vultures, snakes, skunks and lizards. More exotic, and endangered species such as Barbary sheep, water buck, Siberian and Bengal tigers, the striking scimitar-horned oryx, gorilla and chimpanzee are some of the many success stories of the zoo, and efforts have been made towards releasing captive bred animals of these species back into the wild. Plans are afoot to move the zoo from its current location to the planned Dubai World development outside the city, but these have yet to come to fruition. |
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