We are happy to announce that indoor exhibits will reopen as of tomorrow, May 16, and zoo pellets will also be available from vending machines and at cash desks.

Home to an already sizeable African penguin population, we welcome healthy offspring every year; following the hatching announced last January, yet another baby penguin hatched this February 12 after 40 days of incubation.

In 1993, May 15 was designated the International Day of Families by the UN in order to raise awareness of the social, economic and demographic processes that affect families as basic units of society and to encourage all of us to try and support families any way we can.

We are immensely grateful to have so many individuals and companies offering us their support – may it be in the form of symbolic adoptions or supplies such as animal feed.

The spring baby boom is now truly kicking in, with more arrivals every week. Most recently, we welcomed yet another healthy Welsh pony on April 29, following our last birth in 2017.

Considered some of the brilliant songbirds in the world, nightingales are moving back to their nesting sites in Debrecen’s Great Forest in late April and early May.