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Sofia Zoo in the capital city of Sofia is both Bulgaria's largest and oldest zoological garden, being founded on 1 May 1888 through a royal decree. It has an area of 23 ha and houses 1,113 animals representing 244 species.

History

Initially, the zoo was located in the park of the former royal palace, with the primary attraction being an Eurasian Black Vulture caught in Bulgaria and exhibited in a cage in the garden. Later, pheasants and deer were added to the collection, but since the installations of the time proved to be inadequate to accommodate a pair of Brown Bears, Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria ordered a terrain to be granted to the Sofia Zoo at the place of the former botanical garden, then in the outskirts of the city.

Sofia Zoo's exhibition of animals constantly increased, with both local and foreign species being added, notably a pair of lions in 1892, which were exposed in a former stable and had a lion cub the same year.

Between 1893 and 1895, new cages and buildings were constructed to accommodate the ever increasing collection of birds and mammals, including a solid three-room stone building in the back of the terrain designed to be inhabited by bears (1894), a pool where a few Pink-backed Pelicans lived, a building to accommodate pheasants and another one for eagles (1895).

Sofia Zoo moved from its former location to a new site in the centre of Sofia in 1984.

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