Within
the coverage of 870 thousand square meters, there live
200 kinds of trees. There is a 80,000m2 lawn. This is
an animal kingdom full of vitality.
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order to suit the habits and characteristics of pandas
, Jinan Zoological Park began to plant bamboos ever since
the 1970s. The resultant five-hectare bamboo forest guarantees
the satisfactory need of pandas. |
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forestlike zoological park creates a good and congenial
background for the life of primates. Living in this natural
peaceful environment, they have established a good relationship
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order to give the 90 million people in Shandong
Province the chance to admire the largest mammal,
the zoo has taken great trouble to introduce Asian
elephants and African elephants. |
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tallest mammal in the world-Giraffe, has been taken
good care of by the keepers. |
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 Elk:
Raised in the cold northeast part of China, the
elk cannot live in zoos south of the Yangtse River.
But it lives quite well in Jinan, whose summer is
unbearably hot.
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Monkey: In 1992, a couple of Sichuan golden monkeys
were introduced into the zoo. Reproduction was successful.
Jinan Zoological Park has become one of the few
zoos that can breed rare animals of this kind apart
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| Jinan Zoological
Park opened the Paradise of Birds On 1 October, 1989.
With a coverage of 30,000 square meters, it is unique
in construction and exhibition among zoos throughout the
country. There are in the paradise more than 130 types
of birds, like pheasants, natatorial birds, wading birds
and singing birds, etc.. |
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