Antwerp Zoo - Animals and Exhibits

Animals and Exhibits

Together with its sister park Planckendael, Antwerp Zoo houses over 6,000 animals of about 950 species. They get nearly 1.5 million visitors each year and have over a 100,000 supporting members.

Some exhibits and species in the park include:

• Vriesland: King Penguin, Rockhoppers, and Gentoo Penguins
• Sea Lion Theatre with California sea lions
• Recently renovated reptile house with many species of snakes, lizards, turtles, and frogs, as well as caimans
• Recently renovated aquarium with many species of saltwater and freshwater fish
• Nocturama with aardvark, tamandua, two-toed sloth, night monkey, armadillo, plains viscacha, Gambian pouched rat, senegal galago, slender loris, Lesser Mouse-deer, rakali and Egyptian fruit bat
• Zebras and African buffalos
• Egyptian temple with Asian elephants, Baringo giraffes, and Arabian oryxes
• Aviaries and bird house with many birds species including Congo Peafowl, kiwi, Australian Magpie, Military Macaw, touracos, toucans, and pheasants
• Hippotopia with hippopotamus, malayan tapir, dalmatian pelican, and different species of waterfowl
• Bearcanyon with spectacled bears, and coatis
• Cat enclosures with Amur leopard, lion, Siberian tiger, and jaguar
• Vlaamse tuin: babiroussa, blue duiker, tigrine genet, and African Brush-tailed Porcupine
• Okapis
• Monkey house with guereza, hulman, owl-faced monkey, javan lutung, emperor tamarin, black-headed spider monkey, golden-headed lion tamarin, pygmy marmoset, mandrill, and hamadryas baboon
• Ape house with Western lowland gorilla, world's only Eastern Lowland gorilla and Mountain gorilla in captivity, and chimpanzees
• Birds of prey including snowy owl, Spectacled Owl, crested caracara, and andean condor
• Other enclosures featuring harbour seal, bongo, warthog, meerkat, lesser panda, red-necked wallaby, North American porcupine, American Flamingo, Humboldt penguin, nutria, ring-tailed lemur, sika deer

All the animals in the zoo and Planckendael combined, consume about 41 tons of fish, 52 tons of meat, 37 tons of apples, 36 tons of carrots, 128 tons of hay, 4,000 litres of milk, 23,000 eggs and 10,000 loaves of bread.

The zoo used to have a dolphinarium. At the time of its building, one of the most modern of its kind. Over the years, however, the infrastructure was considered far too small and dated. The zoo's urban location prevented any expansion and meant the society could not build a new one. At the end of the 1990s, the two dolphins were relocated to the Duisburg Zoo in Germany. The old aquariums now hold sea lions, which are much less demanding.