The Giza Zoo and Animal Science Museum

Giza Zoo is a zoo in Giza, Egypt. It is one of the few green areas in the city, and it includes the largest park in Giza. The zoo covers about 32 hectares and is home to many endangered species, as well as some species of endemic plants.

Rare species have been successfully bred at the zoo - including the first California sea lion born in the Middle East in 2002.
Date

Khedive Ismail built the zoo and it was inaugurated on March 1, 1891. It was built on an area of ​​50 acres (21 hectares) on the land of the former Harem Park. Ismail imported many plants from India, Africa and South America, and the Banyan tree planted around 1871 can still be seen. The 180 birds and 78 other animals found in the original zoo were taken from Ismail's private collection.

In the late 1870s, the state took over the zoo as a partial payment for Ismail's debt. In January 1890, the Harem building was opened as a natural history museum, and was used until the opening of a new one in Tahrir Square in 1902. Part of the gardens overlooking the Nile were sold to the public to build houses, but the Harem Garden remained intact.

When the zoo was built, the exhibits of semi-natural habitats were considered spacious by European standards. The group of animals featured the Egyptian species, and at one point claimed to have 20,000 specimens representing 400 species, although many of them may have been migratory birds. Until the mid-twentieth century, the zoo was considered one of the best in the world, but it faced problems adapting to the pressures of growth in the second half of the century as the population of Cairo increased.

By the end of World War II, the zoo claimed to have 4,700 exhibits, totaling 700 mammals and 500 reptiles. The level of visitors increased from 43,567 in 1889 to 223,525 by 1906. In 2007, the zoo hosted nearly 3.4 million visitors.
The gardens include black-stone flagged avenues from Trieste, hiking trails decorated with mosaics, and a marble island pond that is now a tea island.

The zoo includes:

mammals

• giraffes 
• rhinoceros
• black bears
• raccoons
• elephants
• sea lions
• tigers
• lions
• cheetahs
• zebras
• agoutis 
• red foxs
• Dorcas gazelles
• Scimitar horned oryxes.

Birds

• flamingos
• falcons
• vultures 
• ibis
• love birds
• macaws.

Reptiles

• Egyptian cobra 
• tortoise. 
• Nile crocodiles 
• American alligators

 

Animal Science Museum

The first animal museum was established in the Zoo in Giza in the year 1906 AD, then it was transferred to its current location in the year 1914 AD, then it was renovated and developed and then reopened in August 2015 AD, the museum consists of three floors and the museum's panoramas have been designed to suit the natural environments that are characterized by biological diversity
The museum includes a valuable collection of mummies, birds and mummified reptiles that are rare or extinct in nature, and there is also on the ground floor the largest and largest open display of wild animal structures such as the whale skeleton, the elephant skeleton, the giraffe skeleton, the rhinoceros skeleton, and other various groups, and it contains The museum also contains a very beautiful collection of wild animal heads and animal skulls on which the history of mummification is written, and there are two halls in the building itself, one of which includes a complete scientific group of Egyptian birds and other scientific groups of reptiles, mammals and rodents for scientific research, and the other hall is organized Training courses for students and those interested in wild life, with specialists to raise environmental awareness to preserve wild life, and contain some photographs of VIPs from delegations that visited the park in the past.
In the building adjacent to the museum, there are doctors' offices who supervise the zoo animals, feed and treat them, prevent the spread of infection among them, and introduce improvements that prove their superiority in terms of connection with animal life.