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The Antonina and Jan Żabiński Municipal Zoological Garden has been open in Praga since 11 March 1928 and covers about 40 ha by the Vistula, next to Praski Park. More than 11,000 animals of about 500 species live here. Families come mainly for the elephants, gorillas and chimpanzees, giraffes, rhinos, lions and polar bears, the Hippo House with its marine aquarium and the new penguin pavilion. The zoo is also home to the Żabiński Villa, where several hundred people, mostly Jews, were hidden during the war.
Photo Alina Zienowicz , e-mail, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons1Western lowland gorillas are the largest primates in Africa, and they are plant-eaters. The group is led by the silverback Azizi, who came from Zurich in 2008; in May 2025 the females N’Hasa and N’Iralé joined him. In the wild gorillas are critically endangered. Feeding demonstration every day at 1 pm.
Photo Alina Zienowicz Ala z, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons2A historic pavilion from 1928, originally built for birds and reptiles; its glass roof survives from the old structure. Today it houses a collection of marine and freshwater fish, including piranhas, freshwater stingrays and corals with clownfish, the ‘Nemo’ fish. There are piranha feeding demonstrations on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Photo Jolanta Dyr, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons3Flamingos actually have white feathers and owe their pink colour to carotenoids in their food; at the zoo they are given special food enriched with these pigments. The flock includes Pinky and Róża. The enclosure is to be joined to the neighbouring pond to form the ‘Karmazynowa Laguna’ (Crimson Lagoon), which visitors will be able to walk through.
Photo Erko, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons4The polar bear enclosure, with two pools, is on the main avenue not far from the seals. The bears Gregor and Aleut came to Warsaw in 2014. The polar bear is the largest land predator and an excellent swimmer. The zoo is preparing to build a new, much larger enclosure with pools, which visitors will be able to watch through glass from the main avenue.
Photo Jolanta Dyr, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons5The grey seal is the largest seal living in the Polish Baltic, and it is a protected species. Adult males are more than 2 metres long. It swims and dives superbly underwater, but on land it moves clumsily, shuffling along on its belly. The zoo's first seal pool was built before the war, under director Jan Żabiński.
Photo Klarqa, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons6This modernist villa was built in 1931 as the zoo director's home. During the war Jan and Antonina Żabiński hid several hundred people here and in the cellars, and Antonina warned those in hiding of danger by playing the piano. Inside there are rooms furnished in 1930s style, a piano in the drawing room, Szymon Tenenbaum's insect collection, an exhibition in the cellar and an underground tunnel. The villa can be visited with a guide by prior booking.
Photo Sunuwargr, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons7Red pandas come from the mountain forests of the Himalayas and southern China. They feed mainly on bamboo leaves and spend most of the day in trees, and they wrap their long, bushy, ringed tails around themselves to sleep. Look for them high up in the branches.
Photo Alina Zienowicz Ala z, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons8The red kangaroo is one of the largest kangaroos in the world, an excellent boxer that can leap as far as 9 metres. A newborn joey is the size of a bean and crawls into the pouch on its own, and a mother can feed young of different ages at the same time, each with milk of a different composition. The kangaroos Sydney and Robbie live at the zoo.
Photo Alina Zienowicz Ala z, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons9A pavilion opened at the end of 1998, with a free-flight hall where exotic birds fly freely among the visitors; its residents include a Victoria crowned pigeon and keas. In one of the aviaries the sloths Paavo and Amy hang upside down, and another is home to Arnold, a shy mouse-deer, one of the smallest hoofed mammals in the world, about the size of a rabbit.
Photo Gknor, CC0, Wikimedia Commons10Chimpanzees are our closest relatives: they use tools and learn from one another. Lucy, a female in the Warsaw group, loves imitating people most of all, and her passion is painting; auctions of her paintings have raised money to help save gorillas in Africa. Feeding demonstration every day at 11 am.
Photo Alina Zienowicz Ala z, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons11The pavilion opened on 26 September 2008. Western lowland gorillas live in one part and chimpanzees in the other; both species have indoor enclosures and outdoor ones surrounded by water. There are feeding demonstrations here every day all year round: chimpanzees at 11 am and gorillas at 1 pm.
Photo Radosław Botev, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons12The outdoor enclosure of the African elephants Leon, Fryderyka and Buba. Elephants can eat almost 200 kg of food a day, and an adult male can weigh more than 6 tonnes. Buba is gentle and careful, while Fryderyka, as the keepers say, is a real ‘elephant tank’.
Photo Alina Zienowicz Ala z, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons13The Elephant House opened in 2003; it covers 6,000 m² and is one of the most modern in Europe. It is home to the African elephants Leon, Fryderyka and Buba, and rock hyraxes live in a separate part of the building. Next to the herd stands a full-size, 3D-printed skeleton of Erna, the female elephant who led the Warsaw herd from 2009 to 2020.
Photo Przemek P, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons14The Indian rhino enclosure has a pool. Two females with different personalities live here: calm Jhansi and fiery Shikari, for years the partner of Jhansi's son Jacob. The Indian rhino's skin lies in thick folds that look like armour, and the species now needs special protection.
Photo Crusier, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons15The white-tailed eagle is the largest bird of prey that nests in Poland. Adults have a white tail, a pale head and a powerful yellow bill. They hunt mainly fish and waterbirds, are also happy to eat carrion, and build their nests at the tops of huge trees.
Photo Radosław Botev, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons16Ring-tailed lemurs come from Madagascar and are easy to recognise by their tails with black and white rings, which they hold up high like a flag as they walk. In the morning they like to sunbathe with their arms spread out. In summer, from mid-June to the end of August, there is a lemur feeding demonstration every day at 1.30 pm.
Photo Alina Zienowicz , e-mail, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons17Pelicans have a large, stretchy skin pouch under their bill, which they use to catch fish like a net. They often hunt in groups, herding a shoal into shallow water. In the breeding season their white feathers take on a pink tinge. In the wild they live in Africa, Asia and south-eastern Europe.
Photo Raf24~commonswiki, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons18The new penguin house opened on 9 June 2026 on the site of the old exhibit; the year-round pool has a curved glass wall through which you can watch the penguins underwater. African penguins come from the coasts of southern Africa, prefer warmth to frost, and each one has a unique pattern of spots on its chest. Feeding demonstrations every day at 9.30 am and 2 pm.
Photo Jolanta Dyr, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons19The cheetah is the fastest land mammal, and in a short sprint it can catch antelopes on the savannahs of Africa. On 31 May 2026 the zoo opened an enlarged cheetah enclosure: the new part is twice the size of the old one and has new viewing windows and heated artificial rocks. The extension was funded by the PANDA Foundation.
Photo Raf24~commonswiki, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons20The European bison is the largest land mammal in Europe. At the beginning of the 20th century it died out in the wild and was saved thanks to a few dozen animals in zoos, and today it lives in Polish forests once again. In autumn 1939 the Germans took the Warsaw bison away to Munich.
Photo Erko, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons21Hartmann's zebra is a subspecies of the mountain zebra from the dry, rocky mountains of Namibia and Angola, and it copes superbly on steep slopes. You can tell it apart from savannah zebras by its white belly without stripes and the dense crosswise stripes on its rump, which look like a grid.
Photo ANBI, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons22The Bactrian camel comes from the steppes and deserts of Central Asia, where summers are scorching and winters freezing. It stores fat in its humps, not water, and can go a long time without drinking. For winter it grows a thick, long coat, which it sheds in whole patches in spring.
Photo Lukas Plewnia from Winterthur, Schweiz, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons23An outdoor enclosure with a large pool next to the Hippo House, where Hugo the Nile hippo swims in summer. An adult hippo can weigh more than 3 tonnes, yet in the water it moves with surprising grace. From the end of June to the end of August there is a hippo feeding demonstration every day at noon.
Photo Panek, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons24This pavilion, opened on 10 April 2010, combines a home for a hippo with a sea aquarium. Hugo the Nile hippo, who came from Ostrava in 2009, has a pool with an underwater viewing area, so you can watch him underwater through the glass. Sharks and rays swim in the large marine tank.
Photo Radek Kucharski from Warsaw, Poland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons25The rocky enclosure of the lions Zulus and Sofia. Zulus's loud roars can be heard all around, although in this pair it is Sofia who is in charge. Lions are the only cats that live in organised groups, and in the wild they hunt mainly large mammals such as zebras and antelopes.
Photo Leafnode, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons26Meerkats come from the dry lands of southern Africa, including the Kalahari Desert, and live in family groups. While the others look for food, one of them stands on its hind legs and watches for danger, and at the alarm signal they all hide in their burrows.
Photo Jolanta Dyr, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons27The snow leopard enclosure opened in 2017. The snow leopard lives in the high mountains of Central Asia. Its thick fur and wide paws protect it from frost and snow, and its very long, bushy tail helps it keep its balance on the rocks and keeps it warm when it sleeps.
Photo Daderot, CC0, Wikimedia Commons28The anteater has no teeth: it digs into ant nests and termite mounds with its strong claws and then catches the insects with its long, sticky tongue. It comes from South and Central America. It walks on the knuckles of its front feet so as not to blunt its claws, and wraps its bushy tail around itself when it sleeps.
Photo Panek, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons29A reptile house opened in 1997, with glass walls and a glass roof that let the sunshine in. It is home to crocodiles, snakes, lizards and amphibians, as well as Fredek the jabuti tortoise, the zoo's oldest resident: former director Maciej Rembiszewski saved him from being made into turtle soup at a Brazilian market.
Photo Klarqa, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons30The enclosure of the Rothschild's giraffes, one of the most endangered giraffe subspecies: about 2,000 live in the wild. The Warsaw herd is made up of the male Karim, the females Justyna, Anastazja and Malawi, and Pietruszka and her younger brother Pomelo, both born at the zoo. Instead of a fence, the enclosure is surrounded by a moat.
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