The Frankfurt Zoological Garden is the zoo of

Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...

, Germany. It features over 4,500 animals of over 510

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on more than 11 hectares. The zoo was founded in 1858 and is the second oldest zoo in Germany, after

Berlin Zoological Garden The Berlin Zoological Garden (, ) is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany. Opened in 1844, it covers and is located in Berlin's Tiergarten (park), Tiergarten. With about 1,380 different species and over 20,200 animals, the zoo pre ...

. It lies in the eastern part of the Innenstadt (inner city). Bernhard Grzimek was director of the zoo after

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from 1945 until 1974. The Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) was founded in 1858 by citizens of Frankfurt to establish the Zoological Garden, which it operated until the

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. The city council then assumed responsibility for the zoo until 1950, when the FZS again became the zoo's development association.

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