November 29 is International Jaguar Day. This holiday was founded in 2018.
The purpose of the holiday is to draw attention to the vulnerable natural state of this predator, the largest predator in South America.
Jaguars (Latin: Panthera onca) are truly strange animals that have many unique features that are…
29/11/2020
November 28 is a memorable day in the history of Mykolaiv Zoo. It was on this day 42 years ago that the hippopotamus (Latin Hippopotamus amphíbius) first appeared in our collection. In 1978, at the age of eleven months, a hippopotamus named Kazimir came to our zoo from the Kharkiv…
28/11/2020
In November, the biggest modern land predators, the stars of Mykolaiv Zoo - polar bears (lat. Ursus maritimus) Nanuk and Zefirka celebrate their birthday.
Nanuk was born on November 24, he is 8 years old. And on November 27 Zefirka has a birthday, she turns 9 years old. Nanuk and…
27/11/2020
Life stories of roe deer of Mykolaiv Zoo
For now three roe deer (Latin Capreolus capreolus) live in Mykolaiv Zoo.
The oldest female named Nezabudka. She was born on May 22, 2014 in our zoo.
On September 24, 2019, a young roe deer (about 4-5 months old) came to the…
26/11/2020
On November 24, 2020, the staff of Mykolaiv Zoo sincerely congratulates the librarian Iryna Pavlivna Tomash on her 60th birthday, wishes her good health, energy, well-being in her personal life and further success in her work.
Iryna Pavlivna Tomash works in Mykolaiv Zoo 31 years and proved to be a…
24/11/2020
Walking through the zoo in the last days of autumn, visitors admire the trees dressed in gold and crimson robes. And did everyone think about why the leaves are yellow and red in autumn?
Today we would like to talk about what makes the leaves of trees and shrubs so…
20/11/2020
On November 18, 2020, a female domestic yak (lat. Bos mutus (grunniens) named Sakura celebrates her 6th birthday. She was born in Mykolaiv Zoo, her parents are male Spartak and female Silva. Zoo staff say that the name of the birthday girl was chosen for a long time. They wanted…
18/11/2020
The real beauty is to find the unusual in the ordinary.
As of today, a new art object "Restaurant "Pizzeria for birds" has appeared in Mykolaiv Zoo".
The model of the globe is made of plastic lids, which symbolizes the current state of our Earth, which is full of plastic…
12/11/2020
Finally! In Mykolaiv Zoo construction of the complex of summer enclosures for big cats is begun!
For many years, since the construction of the new territory of Mykolaiv Zoo, half of the complex named “Beasts Island”, the central part of the zoo, was unfinished, and animals, such as jaguars, did…
11/11/2020
