Dubai Zoo
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 Dubai Zoo facts

• 5-kilometre (0
• 93 mi) located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• It was originally built in 1967 by a Dubai resident when H
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• Sheikh Rashid bin Maktoum, the late Ruler of Dubai, permitted Otto J
• Bulart to build a zoo on a two hectare plot in Jumeirah
• It is still the oldest zoo in the Arabian Peninsula
• It was considered a Dubai landmark in the late 1960s as it indicated the "town's end"
• In 1971 the management of the Dubai Zoo was taken over by the Dubai Municipality
• During the first couple of years of its existence, the Dubai Zoo housed only a few animals like the big cats, monkeys and hoofed-animals