One of the first things, which have been clear to me - when I first played the game - was that I will create one of my favorite zoos in the world.
It's located in Hamburg, Germany, and was opened in 1907 by an animal trader and show runner. It was the first zoo in the world with 'borderless' enclosures (e.g. enclosures without cages and common fences) and its founder even got a patent on this. He invented the panorama-like outlining of enclosures that visitors get the impression that for example polar bears, walruses and seals live close together while their actually are in different enclosures. One of his sons helped to originally design zoos in Rome, Paris, Chicago, Seattle and Detroit at the beginning of the 20th century.
Today, the zoo is still family owned and it does not only contain many animals but also different architectural and cultural highlights from different eras as well as a very large park, in which many different animals can freely roam. Sometimes I wonder if a majority of the building assets in the game were inspired by this zoo...you gonna see it!
The zoo nowadays consists of two parts: the zoo (or 'zoological garden') with approx. 1,900 animals and a tropical aquarium, which was opened in 2007, with more than 14,000 animals in a 8,000sqm large separate building. It attracts more than 1m visitors a year.
Some more information can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierpark_Hagenbeck
It's located in Hamburg, Germany, and was opened in 1907 by an animal trader and show runner. It was the first zoo in the world with 'borderless' enclosures (e.g. enclosures without cages and common fences) and its founder even got a patent on this. He invented the panorama-like outlining of enclosures that visitors get the impression that for example polar bears, walruses and seals live close together while their actually are in different enclosures. One of his sons helped to originally design zoos in Rome, Paris, Chicago, Seattle and Detroit at the beginning of the 20th century.
Today, the zoo is still family owned and it does not only contain many animals but also different architectural and cultural highlights from different eras as well as a very large park, in which many different animals can freely roam. Sometimes I wonder if a majority of the building assets in the game were inspired by this zoo...you gonna see it!
The zoo nowadays consists of two parts: the zoo (or 'zoological garden') with approx. 1,900 animals and a tropical aquarium, which was opened in 2007, with more than 14,000 animals in a 8,000sqm large separate building. It attracts more than 1m visitors a year.
Some more information can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierpark_Hagenbeck
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