Riyadh Zoo

Riyadh Zoo (Arabic: حديقة الحيوانات بالرياض, romanized: Ḥadīqat al-Ḥaywānāt bi-Arriyāḍ, lit. 'the garden of animals in Riyadh'), formerly Riyadh Zoological Gardens and locally as Malaz Zoo, is a 55-acre zoo in the al-Malazz neighborhood of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Founded in 1957 as a private menagerie for King Saud bin Abdulalziz and the Saudi royal family, the zoo was opened to the public in 1987 and it's today home to more than 1,500 animals of around 196 different species, including endangered ones. It is the largest and one of the oldest zoos in Saudi Arabia.