On May 9, 2021, free entrance to the zoo was established for participants of the Second World War, anti-terrorist operations, participants in the military operations in Afghanistan, the disabled, participants in the liquidation of the Chernobyl accident, old-age pensioners (upon presentation of the document).
06/05/2021
Of course, everyone saw lions, tigers and leopards in the zoo. And did you pay attention to another interesting cat living in Mykolaiv Zoo – a caracal?
The name "caracal" was proposed by Georges Buffon in 1761 who referred to its Turkish name "Karrah-kulak" or "Kara-coulac", meaning "cat with black…
06/05/2021
Column "Flowering Calendar"
The first irises bloomed in the zoo.
The name of the flowers "iris" comes from the Greek word Iris, which means "rainbow", because they are really almost of all colors of the rainbow. An interesting fact - irises are white, blue, yellow, light blue, peach-colour, but there…
06/05/2021
Column "Flowering Calendar".
Magnolias began to bloom for the first time in the zoo, they were presented to us and planted by the honorary citizen of Mykolaiv - Vadym Sertsev. This person is known all over the city for making our native Mykolaiv greener and more beautiful, planting about 20…
06/05/2021
Column "Flowering Calendar".
Decorative during flowering due to the purple-pink flowers, which abundantly cover both the trunk and branches, even before the leaves bloom is the eastern redbud. This plant in our latitudes has such rare impressive quality.
Another name for the eastern redbud is "Judas tree". It is associated…
06/05/2021
Happy birthday, mighty Shanti!
On May 6, 2021, our Asian elephant (Lat. Elephas maximus) named Shanti celebrates his birthday. He is 13 years old.
Shanti was born in 2008 at Hannover Zoo. Arrived at Mykolaiv Zoo from Hungary on November 10, 2019, not alone, but with his friend Dinkar. The…
06/05/2021
Happy Easter! The zoo is working and waiting for you!
03/05/2021
On May 2 Ferret Day is celebrated. This day has been officially celebrated since 2014. The idea came a few years earlier from New Yorker Carol Roche.
Ferret Day was established to raise awareness of this animal.
Ferret (Lat. Putorius Cuvier) is a species of carnivorous mammal of the genus…
03/05/2021
Column "Flowering Calendar"
Holly-leaved berberry blooms in the zoo - an unpretentious evergreen plant native to North America. This plant is also called Oregon grapes - its useful berries really resemble grapes and are used for wine production.
And, of course, the first days of May at the zoo are…
03/05/2021
