Sunday trips to the zoo were the main entertainment in our childhood. Any child knows that we are talking about an amazing place where you can immediately see animals (including rare ones) from all over the world. Today, more and more often you can see ads inviting to a touching zoo. What is it and who would be interested in coming on a tour?
A new format for communicating with animals
In a classic zoo, almost on every enclosure or fence you can see warning signs: “Do not put your fingers in the cage!”, “Do not stroke the animals!”, “Do not feed!”. We have long been accustomed to the fact that one of the "exhibits" can bite, and the other - he will be afraid of increased attention. But the touching zoo works on completely different principles. Here, the main part of the attraction is not passive observation and admiration of animals, but direct contact with them. Almost all pets can be touched, stroked and even picked up. And for an additional fee, they will sell you food, whichyou can feed any animal. Such zoos are very popular with children, often delight adult visitors.
Features of touching zoos
Of course, no owner of exotic animals will allow even for the purchase of an entrance ticket to stroke his beloved tiger or tickle a polar bear. In other words, animals in petting zoos, as a rule, are kept small and "safe" in communication: chickens, guinea pigs, rabbits and other rodents, hedgehogs, turtles, miniature pigs. To maintain the interest of visitors, traditional zoo corners are also created at many touching exhibitions. These are terrariums or cages / enclosures where animals that are too shy, agile or dangerous live, which you can only look at. Otherwise, any touching zoo is a reduced in size and improved copy of a real large animal park. Tickets are inexpensive, you can take pictures without a flash, you are allowed to pick up and feed (food bought on the spot), they offer to buy a variety of souvenirs as a keepsake.
Zoo in Volgograd (Diamant Zatsaritsinsky shopping center)
Like many others, this animal show is a "little farm" open to the public. The sign says in large letters: "Touch, pet and feed!" - the main motto under which the touching zoo operates.
Volgograd is a modern city with a lot of entertainment for every taste, but this is where manyparents prefer to bring their children almost every weekend. Here you can stroke and feed: pygmy pigs (mini-pigs), goats, chickens (including thoroughbreds), rabbits, ostriches. The highlight of the exhibition is a pond in which turtles and fish swim. The second hall of the zoo is occupied by a tropical exhibition where you can see an iguana, a crocodile, spiders and snakes. In a separate room there is an insectarium - a place where nondescript pupae turn into bright tropical butterflies.
Where is the touching zoo? Volgograd, shopping center - "Diamond Zatsaritsynsky". The exact coordinates are N48 41.352 E44 29.112. The animal exhibition is open daily from 10.00 to 20.00.
Kazan petting zoo (Respublika shopping center)
Kazan touching exhibition of animals is in many ways similar to Volgograd. The exact address where the touching zoo is located: Kazan, Peterburgskaya street, house 9 - shopping center "Respublika". The room is quite small - in one room there is a dressing room, a cash desk, a souvenir shop, and in the other there are more than a dozen different animals. There are ostriches, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, turtles, goats. Exotic reptiles live in closed terrariums, and birds and rodents live in small cages. If you do not know where to spend time with maximum interest for the child and minimum expenses, be sure to visit the touching zoo. Kazan is a large city, the prices in which differ slightly from those in Moscow. At the same time, an entrance ticket to an animal contact exhibition costs only 150 rubles, and the stay is unlimited.
Zoo in Rostov-on-Don (M. Gorky Theatre)
In one of the largest cities in the Russian south, a touching animal exhibition is striking in its scale. In Rostov-on-Don, the petting zoo has two floors at once, on the first of which there is a "farm", and on the second - a "jungle". In the lower location you can see (and touch!) goats, chickens, turkeys, chickens and even ostriches. And on the second floor there are closed terrariums, open ponds, in one of which aquatic turtles can be caught and planted on an artificial shore, watching how the animals rush into the familiar element.
Another feature of this exhibition is bats, which freely move around the entire second floor and gladly accept treats from the hands of visitors. One of the most interesting places for a family holiday in the city is a touching zoo. Rostov can also boast that this exhibition is available - tickets cost from 150 rubles. The working hours are also pleasing: from 10.00 to 20.00 daily.
Touching zoo in Ryazan (Malina shopping center)
For the convenience of visitors, the Ryazan contact exhibition of animals is divided into three zones: "Visiting a Farmer", "Butterfly House" and "Ostrich House". Accordingly, in the first location you can get to know farm animals and their decorative species better. These are rabbits, piglets, goats, chickens, turkeys and chickens. Snakes, frogs, iguanas, hedgehogs, a chameleon, a crocodile, turtles, spiders and, of course, live butterflies are waiting for young guests in the Butterfly House. And in"House of Ostriches" you can see ostriches Emu and a donkey. This touching zoo will delight you with such a variety of animals. Ryazan is a city rich in various sights. If you're planning a tour here, be sure to make time to visit the local animal show.
