May 5-11, 2024 is marked "Amphibians Awareness Week". Mykolaiv Zoo joins this important ecological and educational campaign and offers you interesting facts about amphibians and shows you which species of amphibians you can see in our exposition.
Fact three: feeding of amphibians.
All modern amphibians in the imago stage, that…
08/05/2024
Today, May 8, one of the world's most famous naturalist presenters – Sir David Frederick Attenborough – celebrates his birthday. He is 98 years old. David Attenborough is considered by many to be the pioneer of nature documentaries. He was the host and main creator of ten famous documentary series…
08/05/2024
May 5-11, 2024 is marked "Amphibians Awareness Week". Mykolaiv Zoo joins this important ecological and educational campaign. During the week, we will offer you interesting information about amphibians and show you which species of amphibians you can see in our exhibit.
Fact two: the distribution of amphibians.
Amphibians are cold-blooded…
07/05/2024
On May 6, 2024, our Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) named Shanti celebrates his birthday. He is turning 16 years old!
Shanti was born in 2008 in Hannover Zoo. He arrived at Mykolaiv Zoo from Hungary on November 10, 2019, but not alone, but with his friend Dinkar. The animals were…
06/05/2024
On April 28, a beautiful, talented woman, a professional in her field, an excellent manager and organizer, head of the personnel department of Mykolaiv Zoo – Olga Oleksandrivna Tatarynova celebrated her anniversary.
Olga has been working at Mykolaiv Zoo since 1991, and since 1993 she has been the head of…
29/04/2024
World Tapir Day
Around the world, April 27 is annually celebrated as World Tapir Day. To date, it is not known who exactly proposed to celebrate this holiday, but we know that World Tapir Day was celebrated for the first time in 2008.
The purpose of the holiday is to…
27/04/2024
Our traditional spring messages are stories about younglings born in Mykolaiv Zoo. Today we will tell you about the ungulates that were recently born, and which you can see with us right now!
A very cute, "plush" female llama (Lama glama) named Nonna was born in Mykolaiv Zoo on February…
26/04/2024
Today, April 26, is International Flamingo Day. It falls on the birthday of John James Audubon, an American artist and ornithologist who created an image of the American (Caribbean) flamingo for the book Birds of America. The holiday was started in 2020 by a group of specialists with the aim…
26/04/2024
Today, April 26, 2024, Mykolaiv Zoo turns 123 years old!
April 26, 1901 is considered the official foundation date of Mykolaiv Zoo. It was on this day that the founder of the zoo, Mykola Pavlovych Leontovych, decided to open his collection to everyone who wants to see it...
Since then,…
26/04/2024
