Park of the Cat-like ones

The Parc of Cat-like the is located on the common of Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux in Seine-et-Marne. It covers a surface of 60 hectares. This park thus concentrates on the cat-like ones on the 36 species the cat-like ones in the world this park presents 25 species to us and various subspecies and that represents 120 cat-like.

The park is opened with the public since October 14th, 2006 and the majority of the animals come from the park of Aulneau which was too small.

History

1998 : Creation of the park of Auneau in the Eure-et-Loir.
2005 : The park of Auneau becomes too small and a new place is sought.
2006 : The park is delocalized at the height of Fortelle with Nesles in Seine-et-Marne.
2007 : The park accommodates a cat of Gordoni, a couple of cat leopard of Bengal, two cats of sands, a tiger-cat of Siberia, a new couple of margay, two oncilles and two rubiginous cats.

Visitors

October 14th 2006: Opening of the park
August 17th 2007: 200.000ème visitors in 10 months
October 14th 2007: 236.000 visitors in one year

The visit of the Park

The philosophy of the park is the wellbeing of the animals for the reproduction thus the enclosures were studied to observe the environmental conditions of each animal. Those are divided into four geographical areas. For each animal, there are the description of the animal, the name of the animals present, the description of the enclosure and the dangers in their natural environment.

The European circuit

The European circuit starts after the enclosure of the Guépard S. It exists there only two enclosures which are located in the underwood, and those are occupied by woodland cats ( Felis silvestris silvestris ) and lynx of Northern Europe ( Lynx lynx lynx ). Then it is necessary to make half-turn and the circuit ends in the animals of the farm.

The African circuit

At the beginning of the visit we start with the Guépard S ( Acinonyx jubatus ) which have an enclosure their making it possible to express their speeds of race. At the end of the enclosure starts with the left the European circuit. The visit continues while going by the line and one goes along the enclosure of the lions of West Africa ( Panthera leo bleyenberghi ) at the end of this enclosure one can either go opposite or to make the Asian circuit on the right or go by the left to make the American circuit.

The visit of the African circuit continuous by the left and the first enclosure is to occupy by Serval S ( Leptailurus serval ). A little further the park will accommodate cats with black feet ( Felis nigripes ), their enclosures are ready and currently one of the enclosures accommodates a fishing cat. On both sides of the way to the lions we then have initially cats of sands ( Felis margarita ) then the Chat of Gordoni ( Felis silvestris gordoni ) of the panthers of Persia ( Panthera pardus saxicolor ) which can climb with a oak and one finishes by Caracal S ( Caracal caracal ).

The visit finishes accesses by the white lions ( Panthera leo krugeri ) (rare in a zoo) then black panthers ( Panthera pardus ) and finally the lions of East Africa ( Panthera leo ).

The American circuit

The American circuit starts at the end of the enclosure of the lions of West Africa. The first enclosures are that of the Ocelot S ( Leopardus pardalis ) at side is the enclosure of a Jaguar ( Panthera onca ). The visit continues by the enclosures of the Margay S ( Leopardus wiedi ), cats of Geoffroy ( Oncifelis geoffroyi ) and of the cat tiger ( Leopardus tigrinus ) which will be joined by females for the reproduction. The circuit continues by the enclosure of the Puma S ( Puma concolor ), and one arrives at a dead end to admire the Jaguarondi S ( Herpailurus yaguarondi ) which are very rare in the European zoo.

The visit ends in the enclosures of the bobcats ( Lynx rufus ) and that of a couple of Jaguar S.

The Asian circuit

The Asian circuit starts at the end of the enclosure of the lions of West Africa. The first cat-like ones are the tigers of Sumatra ( Panthera tigris sumatrae ) then the enclosure of the rubiginous cats ( Prionailurus rubiginosus ) which arrived since the month of July 2007.

The park makes it possible to accommodate the cat-like rare ones like the panthers of Sri Lanka ( Panthera pardus kotiya ), the cats gilded Asian ( Catopuma temmincki ), the cats leopards of Bengal ( Prionailurus bengalensis bengalensis ), the cats of the marshes ( Felis chaus ), the cats fisherman ( Prionailurus viverrinus ).

The visit continues by large enclosures which make it possible to accommodate the white tigers ( Panthera tigris ), the tigers of Siberia ( Panthera tigris altaica ), the panthers of the Love ( Panthera pardus orientalis ) and the lynx of Siberia ( Lynx lynx wrangeli ). The visit ends in cats leopards of Siberia ( Prionailurus bengalensis will euptilura ), of the panthers nebulas ( Neofelis nebulosa ), of the panthers of snows ( Uncia uncia ) and of the cats of Pallas ( Otocolobus manul ).

Births

Direction

The park is directed by Patrick Jardin and Thierry Jardin who are the creators of the park of Cerza to Lisieux.

Program of safeguard

The park belongs to the programmes of safeguards of cat-like in the whole world because before all this park is made for the European programs of breeding (EEP, ESB) and international.

Restoration

At the entry of the park the restaurant is the Kilimandjaro which settled in a barn of the castle and the interior walls were painted with the colors of Africa.

Access

The park is located near to the Trunk road 4 close to Rozay-in-Brie. It is located at 52 km in the east of Paris, to 20 km in the south of Disneyland Resort Paris and to 30 km in the North-East of Melun.

Opening

The park is open:

Of 10:00 with fallen the night in February, January, November and December.
Of 10:00 to 17:00 in March.
Of 10:00 to 18:00 in week, 18:30 the weekend and public holidays in April.
Of 9:30 to 18:00 in week and 10:00 to 19:00 the weekend and public holidays in May and June.
Of 9:30 at 19:00 in July and August.
Of 10:00 to 18:00 in week, 19:00 the weekend and public holidays in September.
Of 10:00 to 17:00 in week, 18:30 the weekend and public holidays in October.

The park is closed Mondays of November, December and January, the two last weeks of December, the first two weeks of January and following the climatic conditions.

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