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Introduction
The menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes is one of the oldest zoological parks in the world still open to the public, following that of Schönbrunn.
It was officially opened on December 11, 1794 on the initiative of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, professor of zoology (Zoology (from the Greek terms ζoÎżÎœ , zoon, animal, and…) at the National Museum of Natural History (The approach to observation and systematic description of nature begins from…), by the transfer of animals from the Royal Menageries of Versailles and Raincy (belonging to the Duke of OrlĂ©ans), respectively on April 26, 1794 and May 27, 1794, and by the contribution of animals from fair of private menageries and fairgrounds on a provisional basis from November 4, 1793.
It extends over more than 5.5 hectares in the heart of the 5th arrondissement of Paris (Paris is a French city, capital of France and the capital of the region…), and is part of the Jardin des Plantes which extends to the South; it is bordered by the street (The street is a circulation space in the city which serves housing and places…) Cuvier to the North-West (The north-west is the direction between the north and west cardinal points. The northwest is…) and the quay (The Quai is a cultural space in the city of Angers in the department of Maine-et-Loire in…) Saint-Bernard (The Saint-Bernard is a breed of large mountain dogs, often trained as dogs of…) in the North-East (The north-east is the direction halfway between the north and east cardinal points. The north-east…). It depends on the Chair of Ethology of the Museum (like the Vincennes Zoo) and it presents to the public around a thousand large animals: 270 mammals of 50 species, 330 birds of 80 species, 200 reptiles of 50 species, 200 amphibians of 10 species, as well as 1,200 invertebrates of around fifty species at the Vivarium.
History of the menagerie
Animal painters at the Jardin des Plantes in 1902.
Magazine L’Illustration (August 1902).
Throughout its history, it has presented an innumerable quantity of animal species, including the first giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis ) is a species of artiodactyl ungulate mammal…) presented in France (1826), elephants, brown and white bears , seals.
During the Paris Commune in 1871, animals were eaten by besieged and starving Parisians.
Many constructions, sometimes sophisticated for the time, were built for this purpose in the 19th and early 20th centuries, succeeding the basic enclosures and cages of the beginning: rotunda, bear pits, antics, wild animals, houses of birds of prey and birds of prey. reptiles, pheasantries. The most successful of these is undoubtedly the large aviary built in 1888 for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 and still used.
In the mid-20th century, the menagerie entered a period of decline, eclipsed by more modern zoological parks (Vincennes Zoo, Parc (A Parc is an enclosed natural area,[1] formed of woods or meadows, in which were…) of Thoiry), then contested by the anti-zoo movements, while practically no renovation might be undertaken, due to lack of means (this was also the time when the Great Gallery of Zoology, now of Evolution, had to close because it was raining through its glass roof). The animals lived in facilities that were generally poorly maintained, often degraded and cramped.
It was from the 1980s that a policy of rehabilitation of the menagerie was put in place, with several successive renovations (raptor aviaries, rotunda, house (A house is a medium-sized building intended for the habitation of ‘a family,…) of reptiles, etc.), and a net (The term Nette is a vernacular name given in French to several species…) preference given to the presentation of small and medium species (The average is a statistical measure characterizing the elements of a set of…) size, generally little known and/or threatened with extinction (Generally speaking, the word extinction designates an action consisting of extinguishing something…) .
Plan of the Jardin des Plantes menagerie
Conservation and international cooperation
The largest species (elephant, giraffe, lion, tiger (Panthera tigris) is a carnivorous mammal of the Felidae family …), gorilla (Gorillas (Gorilla) form the largest genus of anthropoid primates. With eight…), chimpanzee (The term chimpanzee today designates two species of great apes which form the…) , bear), impossible to maintain correctly in small installations and impossible to expand in the center of Paris, gradually left the menagerie in the years 1970 to 2000.
Couple of orangutans.
Currently, it is home to around 1,100 animals, mammals, reptiles and birds, on 5.5 hectares. She has specialized in several groups of animals: among mammals, the Przewalski’s horse (Przewalski’s horse (species Equus przewalskii or subspecies Equus ferus przewalskii…), the orangutan (L’orang -outan (Pongo pygmaeus), also spelled orangutan, is a monkey…), several species of goats (rocky mountain goat, takin (The Takin (Budorcas taxicolor) is a caprine bovid resembling the African wildebeest and which lives …), bharal, ibex (The ibex, or Alpine ibex (Capra ibex), is a mammal of the order…) of Ethiopia), small carnivores, rodents and cercopithecines; among birds, vultures and nocturnal birds of prey are well represented, as are pheasants and certain wading birds (spoonbills, ibises, cranes, agamis and the very rare crested kagou); many reptiles (including giant tortoises over 100 years old) , amphibians and insects (Insectes is a French-speaking ecology and entomology magazine intended for a wide audience…) are raised in the reptile house and the vivarium.
A female (In biology, female (from the Latin âfemellaâ, little woman, young woman) is the…) orangutan, born in Borneo (Borneo is an island in southeast Asia (Insulindia).) in 1969 and installed at the menagerie since 1972, is the subject of a documentary film by Nicolas Philibert entitled NĂ©nette and released on 31 March 2010.
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