Zoom Torino
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| Type | Zoo, amusement park |
| Location |  Cumiana, Italy |
| Coordinates | 44°55′56″N 7°25′15″E / 44.93232°N 7.42075°E |
| Area | 180.000 m2 |
| Created | 2009 |
| Status | Open all year |
Zoom Torino is a zoo and amusement park in Cumiana, near Turin, northern Italy, created in 2009.[2] It covers 180,000 square metres (44 acres).[3]
The zoo is meant to represent the continents of Asia and Africa using immersive exhibits.
In 2022, the zoo instituted a Foundation of the same name to promote biodiversity and research for the welfare of animals.[2]
Animals
[edit]Fishes
[edit]Reptiles
[edit]- European pond turtle
- Aldabra giant tortoise
- Green iguana
- Argentine black and white tegu
- Burmese python
- African spurred tortoise
- Rock monitor
Birds
[edit]- Ostrich
- Blue peafowl
- Common moorhen
- Mallard
- Eurasian teal
- Wood duck
- Mandarin duck
- Red-crested pochard
- Rosy-billed pochard
- Greater white-fronted goose
- Swan goose
- Bar-headed goose
- Egyptian goose
- Red-breasted goose
- Barnacle goose
- Common shelduck
- Ruddy shelduck
- Mute swan
- Great cormorant
- Great white pelican
- Dalmatian pelican
- Greater flamingo
- Grey heron
- Grey crowned crane
- African penguin
- Rüppell's vulture
- White-headed vulture
- Hooded vulture
- African fish eagle
- Steppe eagle
- Black-chested buzzard-eagle
- Harris's hawk
- Black kite
- Saker falcon
- Striated caracara
- Spotted eagle-owl
- Snowy owl
- Great grey owl
- Brown wood owl
- Barn owl
Mammals
[edit]- African lion
- Red-nacked wallaby
- Black-tailed prairie dog
- Indian crested porcupine
- Domestic rabbit
- Mongoose lemur
- Red-bellied lemur
- Black lemur
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Siamang
- Meerkat
- Siberian tiger
- Shetland pony
- Red river hog
- Somali wild ass
- Grant's zebra
- White rhinoceros
- Hippopotamus
- Domestic pig
- Bactrian camel
- Dromedary
- Llama
- Rothschild's giraffe
- Kordofan giraffe
- Reeves's muntjac
- Ankole-Watusi
- Yak
- Common eland
- Blesbok
- Defassa waterbuck
- Impala
- Mhorr gazelle
- Thomson's gazelle
References
[edit]- ^ http://www.torinotoday.it/cronaca/freddy-rinoceronte-bianco-zoom-cumiana.html Freddy's story
- ^ a b Piemonte, Tgr (5 May 2022). "Nasce a Torino la fondazione Zoom". RaiNews (in Italian). Retrieved 5 September 2023.
- ^ Info Zoom
External links
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