Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park

Infobox zoo
zoo_name=Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park
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logo_width=150px
logo_caption=Asa Zoo

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image_caption=entrance of the zoo
date_opened=September 1, 1971
location=Dobutsuen, Asa-cho, Asakita-ku, Hiroshima
num_animals=
num_species=170
members=JAZA
website=http://www.asazoo.jp/

Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park is the one of the famous zoos in Japan.

Overview

Asa Zoological Park has opened in 1971 in Asakita-ku, Hiroshima as the 62nd zoo in Japan.

The gross area of the zoo is 49.6 ha.

There are about 170 variety of animals include giraffes, lions, black rhinoceroses, lesser pandas, woylies, Japanese giant salamanders and macaws.

They are asking citizen volunteers to explain about animals minutely and amusingly to visiters.

Hours

*From 1st of January to 29th of December
*From 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Holidays

*Every Thursday

History

*Opened as the 62nd zoo in Japan on September 1, 1971.
*World's first success of the artificial insemination of frozen sperm from a dead Chimpanzee in 1998.
*Opened the animal contact areas for kids in 2001.
*Began the night operation "Night Safari" every summer since the summer in 2003.

ee also

*Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums

External links

* [http://www.asazoo.jp/gaikokugo/infoe.html Asa Zoological Park]
* [http://www.jazga.or.jp/english/index.html Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums]