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In view of the beginning of autumn the Moscow Zoo will now close for visits earlier. Nature-lovers will be able to watch animals only till 7 pm, and ticket offices will close at 6 pm. All these changes are related to shortening of daylight hours. Many animals fall asleep earlier, and too much attention at dark is of no use to them.
Because of cold weather exotic birds, ostriches and parrots and other heat-loving animals are already moved indoors. Among them there are a maned wolf and from South America and a tropical sloth bear. Almost all primates removed from open-air cages to warm ones. Giraffes and zebras are waiting for their turn. Night frost is dangerous for many south animals. But tapirs still keep on enjoying the last sunny days of the Indian summer.
At the beginning of October open hours of the zoo will reduce by one more hour, and after adjusting clocks backward to the daylight saving time that will take place the last weekend of October the zoological gardens will be open till 5 pm when twilight will fall.
The Moscow Zoo was opened in 1864; it was the first zoo in Russia. There were about 200 specimens of wild animals of 80 species and more than 100 specimens of domestic animals in the zoo at that time. There were most of all Russian specimens, and among exotic animals there were lions, parrots, a jaguar, an alligator and a rhinoceros. At the end of the 20th century the zoo was restored, and nowadays more than 8 thousand animals live there. The Mezhdunarodnaya Hotel is located close to the Moscow zoo.
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