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Malacca Zoo (), officially known as the Melaka Zoo and Night Safari, is a zoo located beside Ayer Keroh Highway (Federal Route 143, also known as Tun Abdul Razak Road) in Ayer Keroh, Malacca, Malaysia, which hosts more than 1200 animals including 215 species of birds, amphibians, reptiles, mammals.Zoo Melaka info at Cuti.com. – Malacca Zoo Retrieved on 10 August 2008. It is the second-largest zoo in Malaysia behind the National Zoo of Malaysia, both were established in 1963. The zoo acts as both a rescue base and an animal sanctuary and was initially owned by the Malacca State Government, but its management was taken over by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks of Malaysia in 1979 and later opened to the public by the then Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad on 13 August 1987. Melaka Zoo's history.
Malacca Zoo was the first zoo in Malaysia to exhibit and . Other species exhibited in the zoo, both local and foreign, include African spurred tortoises, , blue wildebeest, , , Gaur, , , Python molurus, grey wolf, Mongolian wild horses, green tree pythons, , , , common hill mynas, fennec fox, Indian muntjac, , , Indian flying foxes, Indian peafowl, common emerald doves, , , Rothschild's giraffe, Sambar deer, lechwe, waterbuck, Ankole cattle, banteng, nilgai, various deer species, , , southern cassowaries, Sri Lankan leopards, , , Asian small-clawed otters, , saltwater crocodiles, , rhinoceros hornbills, moluccan cockatoos, , , , , various turtle species, , , white handed gibbons, Bornean orangutans, sun bears, , , ring-tailed lemurs, , alligator snapping turtles, , buffy fish owls, wallaby, blue-and-yellow macaws, barred eagle owls, spotted wood owls, , Indochinese tigers and .List of mammals -- Mammals. List of birds -- Birds. List of Reptiles -- Reptiles.
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