Zoo
Heidelberg Zoo
Riverside zoo founded by a Nobel chemist and an ornithologist, home to young Asian elephant bulls.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Heidelberg Zoo begins not with an animal but with a chemist, Carl Bosch, the Nobel laureate who turned an ammonia experiment into an industry and kept beetles and a telescope at home. It brings in Otto Fehringer, the ornithologist who wanted a zoo for the city, and the lean years of the nineteen thirties and the war. Listen near the elephant house, where a European breeding programme shapes who lives today.
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