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
