Übernachtungen im Blauen Salon
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The dolphin lagoon - dolphins swimming like almost in open waters
The dolphin lagoon opened a totally new dimension in Nuremberg for keeping dolphins and sea lions. As it is the first outdoor facility within Germany, the lagoon offers the animals die chance to experience real nature "live". Which is at the same time a real improvement of the living conditions of those animals. Also in quantitative measures, the dolphin lagoon has to offer a lot more to its residents as the former delphinarium: like bigger basins and new living environment. This creates new perspectives of meeting the animal´s needs.
But for the visitors as well, a completey different type of zoo landscape was implemented with the lagoon. Remarkable: just without concrete and premises. The lagoon was just built according to the landscape character of the Tiergarten Nürnberg.
A completely new one resulted for zoo landscape without concrete and buildings but also for the visitors with the lagoon. According to the landscape character of the zoo Nuremberg the lagoon was designed close to nature.
Best of the dolphin lagoon:
Current animals:
Six dolphins, two of them born in the wild, four born in zoos:
Sea lions (all born at the Tiergarten Nürnberg):
Dates and facts: Over-all volume of the lagoon: 5.4 million liters of saltwater
The key characteristics of the dolphin lagoon are: