To the right, past some aviaries, we come to the seal pool. Visitors to the Zoo love to watch the keeper feeding the fun-loving South African Fur seals and the smaller Harbour seals from the North Sea coast with a variety of fish. We also find the next enclosure provided with a pool for the Magellanic penguins which have often bred successfully in our Zoo. Bamboo plants provide an attractive environment for the Scarlet ibises and herons in the outside aviary in front of the tropical house opposite. Once inside, we see the great variety of birds together with small mammals from typical biotopes of the tropical rain forests of 4 continents.
Visitors can observe our bird breeding station through a window.
After passing some aviaries with Monk parakeets and owls we come to several enclosures with droll Red-bellied tamarins, cute Fennec foxes from the deserts of North Africa and attractive Common marmosets. One of the worlds rarest animal species is the Lesser panda. Our breeding pair likes to sleep high up in the trees. Now we have reached the start of the wonderful ponds. The first one is brightened up by a large group of Chilean, Old World and Roseate flamingos.