Zoos are among the five most visited places in any city in the world. Adults and children, youth and pensioners all love to take a walk on a fine Sunday afternoon in a well-maintained park and feed the animals with their hands. Tver zoos keep up with large cities and receive hundreds of visitors per day.
Zoo in the shopping center "Babylon"
Shopping and entertainment center "Babylon" is one of the largest centers in Tver. Since November 6, a zoo of exotic animals has opened and has been successfully operating here. He will work daily until December 20 from 10.00 to 20.00 without a break and weekends.
In this Tver Zoo you can meet unique representatives of the animal world from all over the planet - from India and the Amazon to China and Madagascar.
The zoo "Living Fairy Tale" is amazing in its scale. To make animals comfortable and feel free, the leadership of the shopping center allocated almost an entire floor, 800 square meters. On such territory more than two hundred copies of animals and birds freely fit. Here you can chat with monkeys, admire the lemur - the hero of the famous cartoon about the zoo, look at hairy spiders, brisk lizards. You can talk with parrots, which are considered the most intelligent birds on the planet.
Monkey families are also widely represented here. Children and adults will get acquainted with monkeys, macaques, see live hamadrils and even great apes.
Contact zoo
There is no zoo in Tver. That is why residents are very fond of guests and gladly go to get acquainted with animals. In Tver, contact zoos appear quite rarely. The exhibition of exotic animals, which is located in Babylon, gladly invites its guests to hold and pet their favorite animals. Of course, if it is safe. For example, lovers of spiders and snakes can only admire them through the glass of a special aquarium.
Feeding animals from the palm is also allowed, but not all. You can treat monkeys with an apple or banana, offer a couple of nuts to parrots. Snakes and spiders, for example, are hunters and are unlikely to be happy when you offer them a piece of biscuit. Zoo workers feed them with special live food.
Sometimes parrots have a good mood and they go out of their cages to chat with the audience. Some even love to be photographed and will be happy to pose. But it is important to remember that all animals are representatives of the wild, and you need to be very careful not to offend or scare them. In this case, they can attack and injure you.
Exponential feeding
If you guess and come at a good time, you can watch the zoo workers feed their wards. Particularly impressionable people, especially young children, will not like this sight, so it is better to leave them at home or come at another time. The rest of the zoo workers will show how snakes and spiders hunt their prey, how brisk lizards and lizards catch moths and butterflies. And some of the monkeys, on the contrary, can share their lunch with you if you like them very much. Remember the address of the contact zoo: "Babylon", Tver.
Mobile zoo in the shopping center "Rubin"
The zoo at the Rubin shopping center in Tver is also waiting for its guests. This largest shopping and entertainment center houses an animal exhibition called "Planet of the Apes."
In addition to monkeys, of course, the zoo offers to get acquainted with raccoons, meerkats, porcupines, lemurs and tame kangaroos. The cost of a ticket for adults is 250 rubles, for children from six years old - 150 rubles. If you're lucky, you can meet a promoter who distributes flyers with a 50 percent discount.
If you want to make high-quality pictures on the camera, you will need to pay for this service separately. The cost is 250 rubles.
Inside the mobile zoo there are about thirty cages with animals. On each is a sign with information about the animal: how old he is, what he eats and where he lives in the wild.
Communication opportunities
"Planet of the Apes" positions itself in Tver as a contact zoo. You can come here with children and truly introduce them to representatives of wildlife. New guests will be especially pleased with the little marmoset monkeys. You can pick them up, treat them with banana or nuts, take a photo for memory.
But you need to be very careful, because small monkeys are considered one of the most harmful representatives of the monkey species and, together with the game, can unexpectedly bite or scratch if they have something to their liking. Sometimes, playing out, little Skodniks can climb onto your head and pull your hair. Do not scold them. Hearing loud voices and harsh sounds, animals can be very frightened and injure the one who holds them in their hands. Just carefully remove the animal and hand it over to the zoo workers. Or put it back in the cage.
Visitors reviews
Zoos in Tver are always welcomed by residents of the city. The whole family comes there. Parents introduce their children to exotic animals, and they themselves are glad to such communication.
According to visitors, zoos located in shopping centers are worth visiting. Despite the unpleasant smell of ammonia that animals emit, and the smell of feed, the rooms are always clean. The animals are clean and well maintained, it is pleasant to look at them and not scared to hold in their hands. Everyone who was recommended at least once to go to the zoo in Tver and enjoy communicating with wildlife, albeit indoors.