The main entertainment in our childhood was Sunday trips to the zoo. Any child knows that this is an amazing place where you can immediately see animals (including rare ones) from all over the world. Today, more and more often you can see ads inviting to the touching zoo. What is it and who will be interested to come on an excursion?
A new format for communicating with animals
In the classic zoo, at almost every enclosure or fence, you can see warning signs: “Do not put your fingers in a cage!”, “Do not stroke animals!”, “Do not feed!”. We have long been accustomed to the fact that one of the “exhibits” may bite, and the other itself will be afraid of increased attention. But on a completely different basis, a moving zoo works. Here, the main part of the attraction is not in passive observation and admiring animals, but in direct contact with them. Almost all pets can be touched, stroked and even picked up. And for an additional fee you will be sold food that can treat any animal. Children like these zoos and often delight adult visitors.
Features of touching zoos
Of course, not a single owner of exotic animals will even let you pet your favorite tiger or tickle a polar bear for buying an admission ticket. In other words, animals in contact zoos, as a rule, are kept small and “safe” in communication: chickens, guinea pigs, rabbits and other rodents, hedgehogs, turtles, and tiny pigs. To maintain the interest of visitors at many touching exhibitions, traditional zoo corners are also created. These are terrariums or cages / enclosures where too shy, dexterous or dangerous animals live, which you can only watch. Otherwise, any touching zoo is a reduced in size and improved copy of a real large animal park. Tickets are inexpensive, you can take pictures without a flash, you are allowed to pick up and feed them (with food purchased on the spot), they offer to buy various souvenirs as a keepsake.
Zoo in Volgograd (TC "Diamant Zatsaritsynsky")
Like many others, this animal exhibition is a "small farm" open to the public. On the sign in capital letters it says: "Touch, iron and feed!" - The main motto under which the moving zoo works.
Volgograd is a modern city in which there is a lot of entertainment for every taste, but it is here that many parents prefer to bring their children almost every weekend. You can pet and feed here: dwarf piglets (mini-pigs), goats, chickens (including thoroughbreds), rabbits, ostrich. The highlight of the exhibition is the pond in which turtles and fish swim. The second hall of the zoo is occupied by a tropical exhibition, here you can see the iguana, crocodile, spiders and snakes. In a separate room there is an insectarium - a place where plain dolls turn into bright tropical butterflies.
Where is the touching zoo? Volgograd, a shopping center - "Diamond Zatsaritsynsky." The exact coordinates are N48 41.352 E44 29.112. The animal exhibition is open daily from 10.00 to 20.00.
Contact Zoo in Kazan (Republican Shopping Center)
Kazan touching exhibition of animals is in many ways similar to Volgograd. The exact address where the touching zoo is located: Kazan, Petersburgskaya street, 9 - Respublika shopping center. The room is quite small - in one room there is a changing room, a cash desk, a gift shop, and in another there are more than a dozen different animals. There are ostriches, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, turtles, goats. Exotic reptiles live in closed terrariums, and birds and rodents live in small cages. If you do not know where to spend time with the maximum interest for the child and the minimum expenses, be sure to visit the touching zoo. Kazan is a large city, the prices in which are slightly different from Moscow. At the same time, an entrance ticket to a contact exhibition of animals costs only 150 rubles, and the stay time is unlimited.
Zoo in Rostov-on-Don (M. Gorky Theater)
In one of the largest cities in the Russian south, a touching exhibition of animals is striking in its scale. In Rostov-on-Don, the contact zoo has two floors at once, the first of which has a "farm" and the second has a "jungle". In the lower location you can see (and touch!) Goats, chickens, turkeys, chickens and even ostriches. And on the second floor there are closed terrariums, open ponds, in one of which water turtles can be caught and put on an artificial shore, watching the animals rush into the familiar element.
Another feature of this exhibition is bats that move freely throughout the second floor and gladly receive treats from the hands of visitors. One of the most interesting places for families in the city is a touching zoo. Rostov can also boast that this exhibition is available - tickets cost from 150 rubles. The working hours are also pleasing: from 10.00 to 20.00 daily.
Touching Zoo in Ryazan (TC "Raspberry")
For the convenience of visitors, the Ryazan contact exhibition of animals is divided into three zones: “Visiting the farmer”, “Butterfly House” and “Ostrich House”. Accordingly, in the first location you can get acquainted with farm animals and their decorative species. These are rabbits, pigs, goats, chickens, turkeys and chickens. In the Butterfly House, young guests are waiting for snakes, frogs, iguanas, hedgehogs, a chameleon, a crocodile, turtles, spiders, and of course, living butterflies. And in the "Ostrich House" you can see the ostriches Emu and the donkey. Here is a variety of animals that will delight a touching zoo. Ryazan is a city rich in various attractions. If you are planning a trip here, be sure to take the time to visit the local animal exhibition.