Basel Zoo

Zoo Basel is a non-profit zoo within the town of Basel, Switzerland. Its official call is Zoologischer Garten Basel or in English: Basel Zoological Garden. Basel residents affectionately call it Zolli. Its important entrance is just out of doors Basel's downtown strip of Steinen and extends inside the Birsig circulation valley to Basel's town border with Binningen, Basel-Country. Zoo Basel is Switzerland's oldest and largest zoo by variety of animals. With over 1.8 million site visitors consistent with year, it is the maximum visited traveller enchantment in Switzerland with an front fee.

Zoo Basel turned into ranked as one of the fifteen nice zoos inside the world by Forbes Traveler in 2008 and in 2009 as the seventh great in Europe by way of Anthony Sheridan from the Zoological Society of London. The zoo had the first Indian rhinoceros delivery in a zoo, in addition to the first more flamingo hatch. It has had repeated breeding achievement with animals including cheetahs, okapi, pygmy hippopotamuses, and flamingos. Every Somali wild ass in zoos international is associated with the populace in Basel, where this species' zoological breeding application became started out.