Zoological sights in Austria
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Schmetterlinghaus
Sharing the Habsburg’s personal Jugendstil glasshouse (1901) with the Palmenhaus bar, the Schmetterlinghaus (Butterfly House) is for the butterfly-mad only. There are hundreds of butterflies and the shop stocks a great range of butterfly paraphernalia, but the air is hot and unbearably humid, the species range fairly limited and it’s quite a small display area. It’s located in the Burggarten, directly behind the Neue Burg.
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Lainzer Tiergarten
At 25 sq km, the Lainzer Zoo is the largest (and wildest) of Vienna’s city parks. The ‘zoo’ refers to the abundant wild boar, deer, woodpeckers and squirrels that freely inhabit the park, and the famous Lipizzaner horses that summer here. Apart from the extensive walking possibilities through lush woodland, attractions of the park include the Hubertus-Warte (508m), a viewing platform on top of Kaltbründlberg.
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Wüstenhaus
The small Wüstenhaus (Desert House) makes good use of the once disused Sonnenuhrhaus (Sundial House) to re-create arid desert scenes. There are four sections – Northern Africa and the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and Madagascar – with rare cacti and live desert animals, such as the naked mole rat from East Africa.
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