All 13 zoos and animal spots in Paris, mapped — two real zoos, both run by the natural history museum, and several gardens mislabelled as zoos.
Both real zoos in Paris belong to the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle: the Ménagerie in the Jardin des Plantes in the 5th and the Parc zoologique in the Bois de Vincennes. The Ménagerie is a historic site with enclosures that are small by modern standards and keeps mostly small and medium-sized animals, alongside its orangutans; the Vincennes park was rebuilt from scratch and gives animals far more room. Num has no independent welfare assessment of either and does not claim one. Several rows in this set, such as Jardin Claude Bernard and Square Jules Ferry, are small public gardens rather than zoos.
The Parc zoologique de Paris at Vincennes for space and scale, and the Ménagerie in the Jardin des Plantes, whose sites include La Fauverie and the Vivarium, for a shorter visit in the center.
Num's directory maps 13 places under zoos in Paris, but only two are real zoos; the rest are parts of those zoos or gardens that were mislabelled.
Yes. Both names refer to the zoo in the Bois de Vincennes, which is officially called the Parc zoologique de Paris.
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