World Animal Day on 4 October

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World Animal Day was started in 1931 at a convention of ecologists in Florence as a way of highlighting the plight of endangered species.

October 4 was chosen as World Animal Day as it is the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. Since then, World Animal Day has become a day for remembering and paying tribute to all animals and the people who love and respect them. It’s celebrated in different ways in every country, with no regard to nationality, religion, faith or political ideology.

 

Program of the Debrecen Zoo for the World Animal Day:

09:00-12:00    The Hortobágy Bird Hospital introduces itself

09:00-14:00    Our guest: Debrecen Dog House Animal Shelter

10:00-12:00    Travelling on a donkey wagon

10:00-16:00    “Your dog school”

10:00-16:00    Craftsmen program of the Gyermekvarázs Association

10:30-10:50    Celebration of Lenocska’s birthday

11:00-all day   Harris Hawk

12:00-14:00    “Treasures” from the crocodile’s tooth to the tiger’s tail

13:00-14:30    Tour – visit of the newborn tapir

Feedings:

09:30 hippopotamus

10:00 white-headed capuchin

10:30 eastern black-and-white colobus

11:00 lar gibbon, meerkat

11:30 Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth

13:00 red-necked wallaby

14:00 crested porcupine

14:30 black-footed penguin

15:00 South American tapir

17:00 giraffe

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