{"id":2095,"date":"2017-08-19T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2017-08-30T15:50:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T15:50:42","slug":"tiergarten-zoo-schonbrunn-vienna-certainly-not-a-natural-environment-but-a-pleasure-seeing-the-pandas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/tiergarten-zoo-schonbrunn-vienna-certainly-not-a-natural-environment-but-a-pleasure-seeing-the-pandas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiergarten Zoo – Sch\u00f6nbrunn, Vienna – Certainly not a natural environment, but a pleasure seeing the Pandas."},"content":{"rendered":"

As a naturalist I prefer animals to be in their natural habitats and surroundings. Sadly, a zoo is nothing but an unnatural place for animals, but it is a place to understand them and to see endangered and rare species.<\/p>\n

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One animal I have always wanted to see were Pandas, and that is what brought us to the Tiergarten Zoo.<\/p>\n

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We walked literally thousands of steps to get from the Sch\u00f6nbrunn Palace to the Tiergarten Zoo.<\/p>\n

The Zoo for me was sterile, with most compounds having an anything but natural environment, but it did allow us to see one or two exciting species.<\/p>\n

The Pandas on lone by the Chinese government, clearly get the bulk of visitors. They are simply beautiful creatures.<\/p>\n

I was fascinated too with the colours in the aquarium section and in particular the Jelly Fish.<\/p>\n

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If you’re into zoos then consider the Tiergarten in Vienna<\/a>, as this is apparently Europes best.<\/p>\n

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As a naturalist I prefer animals to be in their natural habitats and surroundings. Sadly, a zoo is nothing but an unnatural place for animals, but it is a place to understand them and to see endangered and rare species. One animal I have always wanted to see were Pandas, and that is what brought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,293,46,321,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attractions","category-austria","category-countries","category-tiergarten-zoo-vienna","category-vienna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/P1040577-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ZU0a-xN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}