# Rabat Zoo

- **Country:** Morocco
- **Coordinates:** 33.953000, -6.895000
- **Area:** 119 acre
- **Logo:** Rabat Zoo Logo.png
- **Opened:** 1973
- **Location:** Rabat, Morocco
- **Zoo Name:** Rabat Zoo
- **Date Opened:** 1973 (as Temara Zoo); reopened in 2012
- **Image Width:** 300px
- **Num Animals:** 2000
- **Num Species:** 190
- **Annual Visitors:** 6000000

Rabat Zoo ( ("Zoological Garden in Rabat"), ("The National Park for Animals in Rabat"); ), formerly known as "Temara Zoo", is a zoological park near Rabat in Morocco that was established in 1973. The first enclosures were built to house lions that were previously kept in the royal palace. These lions, believed to be descendants of the now-extinct Barbary lion, form the ancestral line of the zoo’s current lion population.

![Photo of Rabat Zoo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Lion_and_lioness_at_the_zoo_of_Rabat%2C_Morocco.jpg)

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