# Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes

- **Country:** France
- **Coordinates:** 48.844722, 2.359722
- **Area:** 5.5 ha
- **Opened:** 1794
- **Members:** EAZA
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Zoo Name:** Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes
- **Date Opened:** December 11, 1794
- **Num Animals:** 1000
- **Accreditation:** EAZA
- **Annual Visitors:** 500000

The Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes is a zoo in Paris, France, belonging to the botanical garden Jardin des Plantes. Founded in 1794, largely with animals brought from the royal zoo of the Palace of Versailles, abandoned because of the French Revolution, it is the second oldest zoological garden in the world (after Tiergarten Schönbrunn). Today, the zoo contains many rare smaller and medium-sized mammals, and a variety of birds and reptiles.

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**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ménagerie_du_Jardin_des_Plantes (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)