Zoos & aquariums in France

Fish and invertebrates from every sea of mainland France and its overseas territories, among them 35 large sharks and 400 coral colonies, in an aquarium first built for the 1878 Exposition Universelle in the Trocadéro gardens.

Some 4,000 animals of 350 species in 85 tanks, from coral reefs and the rivers of the Amazon and Asia to Africa's Great Lakes, the caves of Central America and the mangrove, with turtles, seahorses, rays, alligators and electric fish among them.

122 species, nearly 45% of them threatened or near-threatened on the IUCN Red List, from orangutans and Seychelles tortoises to the Malayan tapir and the kea, housed from the 1805 bear pits and the Rotonde to the Art Deco Vivarium and Fauverie.

White rhinoceroses, Grévy's zebras, West African lions and 14 giraffes from Africa, and the tropical wilds of the Amazon-Guyana biozone, across 14 hectares.