Is Hongshan Forest Zoo fun?

Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo is located in He Yan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing. It is a comprehensive park with four functions: wildlife protection, animal science education, scientific research and entertainment. Established in 1954 and 1. It is a national AAAA scenic spot, a national wildlife protection science education base and a wildlife rescue center in Jiangsu Province.

As of September 20 15, Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo covers an area of 50.45 hectares, with 39 animal venues, more than 3,000 animals and more than 280 species of rare animals, with a green coverage rate of 85%. It is one of the most distinctive zoos in China, attracting more than 5 million visitors from home and abroad every year.

Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo is a park with a large area in Nanjing, and it is also a characteristic park that displays the remains of the Six Dynasties. There are antique stone carvings imitating the stone carvings of the Six Dynasties in the park, which are arranged symmetrically in three rows. The front pair are stone beasts to ward off evil spirits, 3 meters high; The second column is a pair of Shinto tombs, also known as Huabiao, 6 meters high; The third column is Tombstone Town, with 3.6 hectares of wildlife area.

There are three peaks in the park: Dahongshan, Xiaohongshan and Fangniu Mountain, with the highest elevation of 81.8m. There are more than 400 kinds of plants ranging from ferns to tall trees in the park, and the green coverage rate is over 85%. Among them, Cedar, Ginkgo biloba, Magnolia grandiflora, Cinnamomum camphora, Metasequoia glyptostroboides and Hongfeng constitute the mountain landscape. The park has a large area of water surface formed by mountain confluence, which is a good place for waterfowl to inhabit.

Animal resources

Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo has nearly 300 representative animals and more than 4,000 rare species, including white tigers imported from Germany, ring-tailed lemurs imported from Canada, mandrills imported from Japan, chimpanzees imported from South Africa, color-changing pythons imported from South America and penguins imported from Antarctica. And national protected animals: giant panda, golden monkey, gibbon, langur, red-crowned crane, etc.

Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo has Asian elephants, giraffes, zebras, kangaroos, white tigers, leopards and orangutans, as well as national first-class protected animals such as giant pandas, golden monkeys, gibbons, red-crowned cranes, Siberian tigers and Chinese alligators.

Birds are the earliest wild animals in Hongshan Forest Zoo. The main species are grey magpie, blue magpie, mountain dove, black turtledove, Chinese Pulsatilla, parrot and so on.