Zoo history

1981    Wuppertal Zoo is 100 years old

1975    Black-footed Cats in Wuppertal

1963    A new brown bear enclosure

1955    New Elephants

1950    Lina the Hippopotamus

1937    Hard times for the Zoo

1927    The first Elephants arrive in Elberfeld

1910    Polar landscape and lions' rock formation

1899    Birth of the first Lion

1881    Opening of the Zoological Gardens in Elberfeld

1879    Founding of the public company "Zoologischer Garten"

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