Kiev Zoo
Forty-hectare city zoo breeding rare species, from bison and tigers to steppe hamsters for release.
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This guide to Kiev Zoo in Kyiv follows a specialist from the zoo's Restoration and Reintroduction Centre to a steppe near Odesa in the summer of twenty twenty-five, and asks why anyone would go to such lengths for a hamster. It reaches back to the zoo's founding by a society of nature lovers in nineteen oh-nine and a first winter nobody had planned for. Best heard on the main paths, near the enclosures of the larger breeding-programme animals.
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