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Burgers' Park

Upon entering Burgers' Zoo, your travels start at the penguins' section of the park. There is always something afoot at the approximately 60 black-footed penguins at Burgers' Zoo. Walking further into the park you will pass the elephants, the meerkats and the caribous on your way to the aviary. Among the primates in this section of the park you will find gorillas and chimpanzees.

News Friday, 17 January 2020

Birth rhinoceros calf puts Arnhem in European top five

Thursday evening 16 January 2020 at 17:40 hours, a square-lipped rhinoceros was born at Royal Burgers’ Zoo.

Three wrinkled hornbills in the Bush!

Since several weeks, Burgers’ Bush has had a colourful addition. No less than three wrinkled hornbills roam freely in the indoor tropical rainforest.

Virile eagle ray leaves for Copenhagen

On Monday 11 November 2019, the spotted eagle ray with the most offspring in public aquariums in the world will be moved from Royal Burgers’ Zoo to ‘Den Blå Planet’ aquarium in Copenhagen.

October 26: 'Connecting Conservationists'

20 Future For Nature Award winners will be in Burgers’ Zoo to discuss nature conservation.

Giant window as an eyecatcher

A massive, 12-metres-long by 1.8-metres-tall window forms an eyecatching feature in the Mangrove. The window is made of acrylic instead of glass, just like the windows in the Ocean. The giant window...

Access to another world

In the future, visitors will enter the Mangrove through a darkened tunnel, similar to the current access tunnel to the Bush. In the tunnel,...

Ebb and flood

One distinguishing feature of mangroves near the mouth of a river, where it meets the ocean, is that, under the influence of the tides, the ecosystem must deal with both fresh water and seawater during...