Furuviksparken

Furuvik Zoo is an enjoyment park and zoo in Furuvik, Sweden. Furuviksparken became founded in 1900 by using Oscar Jakobsson and formally opened by remember Olle Cronstedt. In 1938 the zoo became sold by Gösta Nygren, who managed the zoo for 45 years. Nygren installed a children circus, Furiksbarnen, which have become the main enchantment not simplest within the park however also on journeying tours. Nyhren also brought live concert events with well-known artists, like Louis Armstrong, Jussi Björling and Sammy Davis.

The zoo attracted a diploma of global interest while it become pronounced in March 2009 that a chimpanzee residing there had deliberate assaults on traffic. Santino deliberate attacks by using taking stones from the protective moat and setting them only on the facet dealing with the traffic on the island wherein he lives. Later, while the site visitors arrived, he might throw the stones across the moat at them. This indicates that the cognitive ability for forward planning is not uniquely human.