Zoo
Alpenzoo Innsbruck - Tirol
Alpine wildlife park with reintroduced ibex and bearded vultures on a mountainside above the city.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Alpenzoo in Innsbruck follows the bearded vulture, a huge Alpine scavenger hunted to extinction in the region by the early twentieth century, and the doctor turned zoologist who founded this zoo determined to bring it back. You will hear about the bird's strange, almost sport-like way of feeding, and the captive breeding program that began here in the nineteen seventies. Stand at the vulture aviary to see where that comeback started.
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