page_title: Otto Antonius
section_title: Protection of species
hierarchical_section_title: Otto Antonius / Protection of species
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ehrenhalber gewidmetes Grab von Julius und Otto Antonius auf dem evangelischen Friedhof im Wiener Zentralfriedhof &#160; This media shows the protected monument with the number 128657 in Austria. (Commons, de, Wikidata)
context_page_description: Otto Antonius was director of the Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, zoologist, palaeontologist and co-founder of the modern zoological biology.
context_section_description: Antonius recognized the necessity and importance of the protection of species and tried to alert his fellow men to the threat to native and exotic animals.
  Under his direction, Tiergarten the Zoo Schönbrunn joined the first European organisation to save the wisent. Due to controlled breeding in adapted and strictly guarded areas, they were very successful. This system is still used for endangered species.
  With his book Gefangene Tiere (1933) he wanted to point out that caged animals are not living under worse circumstances than animals living in wilderness. He put forward the idea that both develop the same relations to their environment. He often quoted [Alfred Brehm], saying that a good cage is like a home for an animal while a bad one is like a prison. Here the modern concept of a cage's quality is presented. That is the reason why he planned the cages functionally and appropriate for the species.
  At the end of World War II the Schönbrunn Zoo was badly hit by bombs. With the Russian army approaching Vienna Antonius and his wife committed suicide on 9 April 1945.
caption: Grave on the Wiener Zentralfriedhof
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