Hellabrunn Zoo
World's first geo-zoo, grouping animals by continent since nineteen twenty-eight, rebuilt from wartime ruins.
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This guide to Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich traces its transformation in 1928, when director Heinz Heck threw out the old cage-by-cage layout and grouped animals by continent instead of species, the world's first geo-zoo. It follows what happened when Allied bombing forced the zoo to close in 1944, and how keepers responded within days of Germany's surrender the following year. The paths you're walking still follow Heck's continent-by-continent design.
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