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= Sapporo Maruyama Zoo = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sapporo Maruyama Zoo (札幌市円山動物園, Sapporo Maruyama Dōbutsuen) is a 22.5 hectares (55.6 acres) municipal zoo in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. It opened on May 5, 1951, making it the oldest zoo in Hokkaido.

The zoo is located within Maruyama Park in western Sapporo.

History
Sapporo Maruyama Zoo officially opened in 1951 with its origin stemming from hosting a travelling zoo for the "Ueno Zoo". While hosting the travelling zoo, it received such a overwhelmingly good response from the residence that the City of Sapporo decided to open a zoo itself. The theme and the overarching philosophy of the Maruyama Zoo was to create habitats that mimic the natural environments that the animals originate from. Therefore, the exhibits host a variety of different habitats for various different animals with themes that correspond to their natural habitat. Throughout the decades the Zoo has opened new exhibits, notably the Wakuwaku Asia Zone that opened in 2012, and the Polar Bear Pavilion that opened in 2018; with the Polar bear Pavilion being the largest polar bear exhibit in Japan.

Incidents
Starting in 2010, the zoo tried for four years to mate two hyenas until they discovered they were both males.

Attractions and Animals
Sapporo Maruyama Zoo covers an area of 22.5 ha, and is home to 168 different species and 737 animals.

Polar bear pavilion (Opened in 2018)
Animals:


 * Polar bear
 * Spotted seal
 * Harbor seal

Asian elephant house (Opened in 2018)
Animals:


 * Asian elephant

Africa Zone (Fully opened in 2016)
Africa zone consists of two pavilions, "Giraffe pavilion" and "Hippo and lion pavilion". The male lion passed away in 2022, but the zoo has a plan to reintroduce lions.

Giraffe pavilion
Animals:


 * Reticulated giraffe
 * Common ostrich
 * Naked mole rat
 * Meerkat
 * Serval

Hippo and lion pavilion
Animals:


 * Great white pelican
 * Hippopotamus
 * Grant's Zebra
 * Eland
 * African lion

Wakuwaku Asia Zone (Opened in 2012)
Asia zone consists of three pavilions, "Frigid Zone pavilion", "Highlands pavilion", and "Tropical Rainforest pavilion".

Frigid Zone pavilion
Animals:


 * Amur tiger
 * Snow leopard

Highlands pavilion
Animals:


 * Red panda
 * Asian black bear

Tropical Rainforest pavilion
Animals:


 * Malayan sun bear
 * Lion-tailed macaque
 * Celebes crested macaque
 * Asian small-clawed otter
 * Gibbon
 * Lar Gibbon

Reptile House (Opened in 2011)
Animals:


 * Aldabra giant tortoise
 * False gharial
 * Chinese alligator
 * Rhinoceros iguana
 * Burmese python
 * Green anaconda
 * Asian water monitor
 * Gila monster
 * Yellow-banded poison dart frog
 * Cobalt Tree monitor
 * Ezo Brown Frog
 * Ezo Salamander
 * Japanese rat snake
 * Japanese forest rat snake
 * Mamushi

Yezo sika deer and wolf house
Animals:


 * Yezo sika deer
 * Timberwolf

Yezo brown bear pavilion
Animals:


 * Yezo brown bear

Chimpanzee pavilion
Animals:


 * Chimpanzee

Snow monkey mountain
Animals:


 * Japanese macaque

Tropical bird pavilion
Animals:


 * American flamingo
 * Chilean flamingo
 * Red-capped cardinal
 * Mandarin duck
 * Toco toucan
 * Indian peafowl
 * Southern coati

Water bird house
Animals:


 * Red-crowned crane
 * Humboldt penguin
 * White stork

Birds of prey house
Animals:


 * Steller's sea eagle
 * Japanese golden eagle
 * White-tailed eagle
 * Eurasian eagle-owl
 * Blakiston's fish owl

Forest of owls and hawks
Animals:


 * Hokkaido Ural owl
 * Snowy owl
 * Black kite
 * Japanese buzzard
 * Great horned owl

Monkey House
Animals:


 * Ruffed lemur
 * Ring-tailed lemur
 * Tufted capuchin
 * Diana monkey
 * Olive baboon
 * Mandrill
 * De Brazza's monkey

Kangaroo pavilion
Animals:


 * Eastern grey kangaroo
 * Sunda slow loris
 * Galah
 * Bali Myna
 * Black-tailed prairie dog
 * Yezo tanuki

Children's Zoo
Animals:


 * Common squirrel monkey
 * North American beaver
 * Raccoon
 * Siberian flying squirrel
 * Hokkaido Squirrel
 * Mountain hare
 * Guinea pig
 * Chinese goose
 * Sheep
 * Pony
 * Call duck
 * Domestic rabbit
 * Onagadori

New Orangutan pavilion (Expected to open in 2024)
Animals:


 * Bornean orangutan

Access
The zoo is approximately 15 minutes' walk from Maruyama-Kōen Station on the Tōzai Line.