Chengdu Zoo — Attraction in Chengdu

In the Lion House, the Tiger House and the Leopard House of Chengdu Zoo, the double-layer iron railings have been transformed into French windows, which allow tourists to observe animals more clearly than before.

In the Antelope House, tourists will see takins strolling around the grassland, blackbucks running one after another and blue sheep climbing artificial hills. Also, they will be amazed at the vigor of life and the harmony of humans, animals and nature.

They are modeled after natural habitats of monkeys. Smart golden monkeys, lovely ring-tailed lemurs and small squirrel monkeys search for food while playing on swings and climbing on ropes. Monkeys live a happy life there. Meanwhile, their activities delight tourists a lot.

Covering a total area of about 1,000 square meters (1,200 square yards), the Panda House is the most famous animal house in Chengdu Zoo. At the present time, there are three giant pandas and three lesser pandas living in the house. However, 58 cute pandas have been once bred and raised here, including 17 sets of twins. All kinds of bamboos, pandas' favorite food, can be found here. Bamboos will give off a delicate fragrance after the rain, which makes tourists delighted and relaxed.

Covering a total area of 17 hectares (43 acres), Chengdu Zoo is the largest zoo in southwest China. There are over 3,000 animals from more than 300 species, like Giant Pandas, South China tigers, takins, and clouded leopards living there. More than thirty animal houses are distributed throughout the zoo, surrounded by green trees, bamboos and flowers. Here are some major ones:

The Water Bird Lake in Chengdu Zoo is surrounded by green willows swinging in the breeze. Mandarin ducks, elegant swans, cute pelicans, ducks, egrets and other water birds live here in harmony and peace.

The Popular Science Hall of Chengdu Zoo consists of an exhibition hall and a digital cinema.

In the exhibition hall, there are numerous pictures depicting the living habits and habitats of animals. Moreover, plenty of boards present the evolution and classification of animals, and rare wildlife in China. At last, there are all kinds of specimens, including those of animal skeletons, feathers and eggs of birds, deer horns, embryos of primates, and feedstuffs.

The digital cinema can seat over 100 people. Five films are played in turn at 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:30, 15:10, and 16:00 every day. Tourists can have a rest while learning something interesting here. They can enjoy various animals and plants on the vast African land, learn about the growth of emperor penguins, delight in the funny things of frogs, watch how people rescue the babies of a tortoise having a difficult labor, and get to know some mysterious things of the Chengdu Zoo.

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This place has potential but the animals look stressed due to the behavior of too many of the guests.

There are signs that clearly states in both Mandarin and English to not feed the animals, to be quiet around the animals and to not bang on the windows. Yet too many Chinese citizens threw candies into the cages with plastic wrapper on them and me and my wife could see how the bears and primates ate the candies with the plastic wrappers still on them even. This happened right in front of the guards. The worst part for us was that the children were encouraged by the older Chinese citizens to behave like this and no guard or park management did anything to correct their behavior which made it so that even more people started throwing candies, screaming and banging on the windows to the animals until they hid in a corner of their cages.

There are cameras almost everywhere in the zoo but clearly nobody corrects the very bad behavior of many of the local citizens when they are under the false assumption that they are being kind to the animals when they in fact are prematurely killing them due to all the plastic that is going to accumulate in their stomachs until they won't be able to process food anymore.

The only exhibitions that were acceptable to us as guests and in terms of animal welfare were the reptile, fish and bird section. Those animals looked healthy and quite relaxed.

So, your experience here will depend on how you look at animals. If animal welfare is important than this zoo as of today might be your worst nightmare coming to life. If you don't care about that. Then you will probably enjoy it.

If you want to see healthy, relaxed and well maintained animals I highly suggest the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. The respect that was shown by the guests and the animal welfare provided by the staff was exceptional and the guards actually corrected...

Exhibits are terribly small and depressing. Fake rocks. Fake wood. There are so many types of animals cramped into a small zoo and only a few animals per type. You will see they all just walk back and forth by the walls. Most animals looked malnourished and depressed. The Exhibits are extremely badly maintained. Additionally, the glass f the exhibits were so filthy you could barely see through. Oh and then there are the guests. They keep feeding the animals snacks and trying to get them to do tricks, despite hundreds of signs not to. The guards just sleep on the benches and dont say anything. I was honestly shocked. Terrible place for animals, should...