Coordinates: 63°41′52.38″N16°51′31.83″E / 63.6978833°N 16.8588417°E
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 Reindeers in Junsele djurpark | |
| Date opened | 1965 |
|---|---|
| Location | Junsele, Sollefteå kommun |
| No. of species | 25 |
| Owner | Äventyrsberget |
| Website | http://www.aventyrsberget.se |
Junsele djurpark is a Swedish zoo in Junsele, Sollefteå kommun, in Sweden.
A zoo is a facility in which all animals are housed within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also breed.
Junsele is a locality situated in Sollefteå Municipality, Västernorrland County, Sweden with 895 inhabitants in 2010. The village is known for its zoo, where you can see for instance white tigers and lions. There is a small tourist bureau, health centre, cinema and library, all situated in the Municipality office area. Places of interest nearby include the small, traditional forest village of Långvattnet, itself a designated nature reserve noted for its geological features and surrounded by fifty lakes, where most types of fishing are available. Bird life within the reserve is also of some interest.
Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund, a strait at the Swedish-Danish border. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area. Sweden has a total population of 10.2 million of which 2.5 million has a foreign background. It has a low population density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre (57/sq mi). The highest concentration is in the southern half of the country.
Junsele djurpark was started in small scale by the Sports club Junseles idrottsförening during the sixties.
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
The zoo was founded and opened in 1965. Junsele kommun bought the zoo in 1969, until it was sold in 1992. Since then the zoo is part of the company Äventyrsberget.
The zoo is specialized in carnivores and displays the rare white colored moose.
A carnivore, meaning "meat eater", is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging. Animals that depend solely on animal flesh for their nutrient requirements are called obligate carnivores while those that also consume non-animal food are called facultative carnivores. Omnivores also consume both animal and non-animal food, and, apart from the more general definition, there is no clearly defined ratio of plant to animal material that would distinguish a facultative carnivore from an omnivore. A carnivore at the top of the food chain, not preyed upon by other animals, is termed an apex predator.
