Our awards Numerous visitors of Leningradsky Zoo find it attractive in any season. In summertime beasts and birds from our collection, including tropical ones, are being demonstrated in various originally designed open-air cages. As to inhabitants of northern and medium latitudes, they usually spend wintertime in the same cages. This season makes animals with fluffy fur especially beautiful, thus it is the best time to admire our polar foxes, sables, martens, ermines and other fur-bearing animals, as well as deer, elks, aurochses, hares and squirrels. In spring or autumn these beasts and partly birds can't look as lovely because that is their natural period for shedding hair and feathers.
Spring is also the season when most our animals breed their posterity.
Though considered to be very joyful by our young and adult visitors, this period is troublesome for both animals and zoo attendants. Anyhow, any new-born beast, nestling or reptile is being met in our Zoo as a precious addition to its collection of animals. On the whole, breeding and saving of animals, especially those belonging to rare species, is our main task. Those admiring bird singing are also invited to visit us in springtime when air is full of warbles of a unique birds chorus. Terrarium is open for snake and lizard-lovers the whole year round.