| Zoom Torino | |
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 The white rhino kept at Faunistic Park Le Cornelle, moved to Zoom in 2013 | |
| Type | Zoo, amusement park |
| Location |  Cumiana, Italy |
| Coordinates | 44°55′56″N 7°25′15″E / 44.93232°N 7.42075°E / 44.93232; 7.42075 |
| Area | 180.000 m2 |
| Created | 2009 |
| Status | Open all year |
Zoom Torino is a zoo and amusement park in Cumiana, near Turin, northern Italy, created in 2009. It covers 180,000 square metres (44 acres).
The zoo is meant to represent the continents of Asia and Africa using immersive exhibits.
In 2022, the zoo instituted a Foundation of the same name to promote biodiversity and research for the welfare of animals.
Animals
Fishes
Reptiles
- European pond turtle
- Aldabra giant tortoise
- Green iguana
- Argentine black and white tegu
- Burmese python
- African spurred tortoise
- Rock monitor
Birds
- Ostrich
- Blue peafowl
- Common moorhen
- Mallard
- Eurasian teal
- Wood duck
- Mandarin duck
- Red-crested pochard
- Rosy-billed pochard
- Greater white-fronted goose
- Swan goose
- Bar-headed goose
- Egyptian goose
- Red-breasted goose
- Barnacle goose
- Common shelduck
- Ruddy shelduck
- Mute swan
- Great cormorant
- Great white pelican
- Dalmatian pelican
- Greater flamingo
- Grey heron
- Grey crowned crane
- African penguin
- Rüppell's vulture
- White-headed vulture
- Hooded vulture
- African fish eagle
- Steppe eagle
- Black-chested buzzard-eagle
- Harris's hawk
- Black kite
- Saker falcon
- Striated caracara
- Spotted eagle-owl
- Snowy owl
- Great grey owl
- Brown wood owl
- Barn owl
Mammals
- African lion
- Red-nacked wallaby
- Black-tailed prairie dog
- Indian crested porcupine
- Domestic rabbit
- Mongoose lemur
- Red-bellied lemur
- Black lemur
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Siamang
- Meerkat
- Siberian tiger
- Shetland pony
- Red river hog
- Somali wild ass
- Grant's zebra
- White rhinoceros
- Hippopotamus
- Domestic pig
- Bactrian camel
- Dromedary
- Llama
- Rothschild's giraffe
- Kordofan giraffe
- Reeves's muntjac
- Ankole-Watusi
- Yak
- Common eland
- Blesbok
- Defassa waterbuck
- Impala
- Mhorr gazelle
- Thomson's gazelle
References
- http://www.torinotoday.it/cronaca/freddy-rinoceronte-bianco-zoom-cumiana.html Freddy's story
- ^ Piemonte, Tgr (5 May 2022). "Nasce a Torino la fondazione Zoom". RaiNews (in Italian). Retrieved 5 September 2023.
- Info Zoom
External links
 Zoos of Italy | ||
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 Animals portal | ||
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