Bioparc Valencia is a zoo park in Valencia, Spain. The zoo is owned by the City Council of Valencia and designed and managed by Rainforest (a private Spanish company devoted to building and managing zoos). It has a large collection of African fauna.
Most of the animals moved to the new Bioparc facilities, located in Valencia's Turia riverbed, from the old city's zoo when the park opened in 2008.
The concept of the zoo, called Zooimersion in Spanish, consists of immersing visitors into the animals' habitat and not vice versa. This is achieved by not using the traditional railings and cages that are common in many zoos, using instead rivers, ponds, streams and rocks to separate visitors from the animals. Also, great care has been taken in reproducing the eco-systems, including an important collection of African flora.
The zoo is the birthplace of Makena, the first elephant born in the Valencian Community.
Exhibits As of 2022: Sabana
Aardvark Abdim's stork African bush elephant African pygmy mouse African rock python African sacred ibis Ball python Banded mongoose Blesbok Bush stone-curlew Cairo spiny mouse Cape porcupine Cape teal Common dwarf mongoose Common ostrich Common warthog Crested guineafowl Gambian pouched rat Golden-breasted starling Grant's zebra Grey crowned crane Impala Kirk's dik-dik Klipspringer Lion Marabou stork Meerkat Mhorr gazelle Naked mole-rat Purple starling Rock hyrax Rothschild's giraffe Saddle-billed stork Southern white rhinoceros Speckled pigeon Spotted hyena Superb starling Thomson's gazelle Waterbuck White-cheeked turaco
Selva Ecuatorial
African black duck African forest buffalo Black crowned crane Chimpanzee De Brazza's monkey Drill Dumeril's boa Dwarf crocodile Eastern bongo Emperor scorpion Gabon talapoin Leopard Leopard tortoise Madagascar day gecko Madagascar hissing cockroach Panther chameleon Pygmy hippopotamus Red forest duiker Red river hog Sitatunga Spotted-necked otter Western lowland gorilla White-naped mangabey
Humedales African spoonbill Golden mantella Hippopotamus Nile crocodile Pink-backed pelican
Madagascar Black-and-white ruffed lemur Fossa Great white pelican Greater flamingo Mongoose lemur Red-bellied lemur Red-fronted lemur Red ruffed lemur Ring-tailed lemur
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