The Zoo am Meer isn’t spectacular on the face of things, but it enthrals kids, partly because the enclosures are cleverly built into one big artificial ‘rock’ formation. They’ll see a polar bear (or if he’s sleeping, a fluffy pile of fur on a rock), polar foxes, harbour seals, Humboldt penguins, pumas and chimpanzees. Ask at the tourist office for feeding times.
Zoo am Meer
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