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| Location | Ljubljana, Slovenia |
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| Land area | 19.6 hectares (48 acres) |
| Number of animals | 580 [1] |
| Number of species | 152 [1] |
| Website | www.zoo-ljubljana.si |
Ljubljana Zoo (Slovene: Živalski vrt Ljubljana) is a zoo in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It serves as the national zoo of Slovenia.
The zoo, covering 19.6 hectares (48 acres), is situated on the southern slope of the Rožnik hill, in a natural environment of woods and meadows is about a 20 minute walk from the city center. The zoo is notable in that the city is at the intersection of the Alpine, Pannonian and Mediterranean habitats and has 152 species and a total of 580 animals.[1]
It is open daily during the summer from 9:00 to 19:00 and from 9:00 to 16:00 in winter.
Tourists can obtain a Ljubljana Card pass and get a 15 percent discount on accessing the zoo.
They are one of the only places to have one of the last possible Barbary lion otherwise extinct
Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ljubljana_ZOO Ljubljana Zoo] at Wikimedia Commons
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