Have you been wondering where to go with your kids for a winter walk? On the playgrounds it is cold and you have already seen the square on Sobornaya? Then it is time to visit the winter zoo! Warm winter enclosures will not allow you to freeze, animals and nature…
20/12/2019
From December 16 to December 18, Mr. Douglas Richardson, the mentor of Nikolaev zoo, who is a zoological consultant of the EAZA, made a working visit to our zoo. The purpose of his three-day visit was annual inspection of our zoo to get an idea of how successfully we are…
19/12/2019
The party "Birthday of polar bears" was fun and positive - with interesting quizzes, funny contests and games and, of course, presents for polar bears. Congratulations to our white fluffy beauties on holiday!
12/12/2019
On November 27, Mykolaiv zoo sent a male European bison (Bison bonasus), nickname Mustang, to Tbilisi zoo (Georgia) within the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP).
This species is part of the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP), so its movement is regulated by the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA)…
28/11/2019
For the first time in Mykolaiv zoo in the aquaterrarium collection appeared a new kind of lizard.
In the beginning of October, as a result of the exchange the zoo received a young pair of ocellated lizard (Lacerta lepida (Timon lepidus)). Animals were exchanged for born in the department Hermann's…
18/11/2019
The largest animals of the land Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) after the long exhausted negotiations have finally arrived to Mykolaiv zoo! These giants for several years in a row were absent in the collection of Mykolaiv zoo. During this time, the enclosure for keeping of these animals has been modernized…
10/11/2019
Holidays like Halloween are common to many peoples of the world. They are celebrated during the transition from a full, warm, generous autumn to a cold, hungry, exhausting winter. With the help of impetuous fun, games, jokes, people tried to overcome the fear of cold, diseases, the unknown forces of…
01/11/2019
On October 22, a male snow leopard named Tiksi was delivered from the French zoological and botanical park Mulhouse by special transport. He was born in this zoo on May 28, 2017. The animal was transferred by decision of the coordinator Emma Nygren (EEP Coordinator for Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia)…
22/10/2019
On October 17, the Siberian tiger Avgur, who was born in Nikolaev zoo on December 25, 2017, breeding number of Nikolaev is 65, was safely sent to Odessa zoo, where a new enclosure awaits him. We hope our tiger cub will be comfortable in Odessa.
17/10/2019
