Every year, with the onset of warm weather, our tortoises move to a summer enclosure in the fresh air, which was built especially for them. Today, the biggest tortoise in our zoo moved to its summer home – a male African spurred tortoise named Marcus with his female friend of…
12/04/2024
A real kaleidoscope of patterns and bright colors shows the beautiful spring. In Mykolaiv Zoo, some flowering plants are replaced by others, and it is difficult to choose the most beautiful ones!
Almonds and cherry plums finish blooming, and tender green grass of the lawns under the trees is covered…
09/04/2024
April 8 is Day of Zoo Lovers. Every year, millions of people visit zoos and learn about the plenty of animals that live there. Many zoos are breeding centers for endangered animals.
Our Mykolaiv Zoo is one of the objects of the Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine, which keeps and…
08/04/2024
For those who did not have time to take part in the cherry blossom festival at Mykolaiv Zoo yesterday, we also held a costumed excursion today, during which everyone could learn about the traditions of the hanami celebration, about when entire lanes of cherry blossoms appeared in our zoo and…
07/04/2024
For several years in a row, Mykolaiv Zoo has been holding the wonderful Japanese holiday Hanami, which means admiring flowers. For many Japanese, cherry blossoms symbolize human life, transience and nobility. The Japanese love to celebrate and cherish the cherry blossoms during their limited blooming period, and many people host…
06/04/2024
World Aquatic Animal Day (WAAD) is celebrated on April 3 – an annual event dedicated exclusively to aquatic animals. The purpose of this day is to spread information about animals that live in or near water. So far, the holiday is little known, as it was held for the first…
05/04/2024
Today, April 4, another exchange of animals took place between zoos of Ukraine. The exchange was carried out in order to replenish the collection and create pairs of rare animals.
A young male guanaco (Lama guanicoe), born in 2023, as well as a pair of young African sacred ibises (Threskiornis…
05/04/2024
The column "Kaleidoscope of incredible beauty" reminds our guests that Mykolaiv Zoo has not only a large collection of animals from different parts of the world, but also a beautiful park with a variety of beautiful plants. And we continue to report which flowers you can see blooming in our…
02/04/2024
International Birds Day is celebrated on April 1. For the first time, this day was celebrated as a mass children's holiday in the United States of America. The organizer was Charles Almanzo Babcock, a teacher from a town in Pennsylvania. The purpose of the holiday is to draw the public's…
01/04/2024