Guangzhou Zoo

Guangzhou Zoo is one of large zoos that mainly display wild animals. It lies in the southeast of Middle Xianlie Road, covering 420,000 m2, built in 1958, with 400 kinds of rare animals from around the world—altogether 5,000 rare animals. It has bee listed as top 3 animals with Beijing Zoo and Shanghai Zoo.

The landscape of Guangzhou Zoo is wide, with lake, mountain, green trees and beautiful scenes. The animals' cages and residences are arranged reasonably in tree shadows, bushes, or mountains. Animals are living in the natural or semi-natural environments that are suitable for their natural instinct, which creates the most harmonious relations between human and animals.

There are imported rare animals like giraffes, antelopes and white rhinoceros. There are also domestic rare animals like panda, golden monkey and South Chinese tiger under 1st grade protection. On the top of Maying Rock in the north, lies the residence area for primates. On the south slope, there are medium a large size beast cages. In southwest slope, there are Bear Mountain, Lion Mountain, tiger mountain and hippopotamus pool. Across the lake from Maying Rock, there are monkey hill, panda hall, elephant room, giraffe hall, rhinoceros hall, zebra hall and deer hall. There are dozens of rare birds like red-crowned cranes, white swan, and black-necked cranes on the beautiful artificial lake, which also attracts a large number of migrating birds to stay.

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