Zoo Magdeburg has kept flatland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) since 1980 and has recorded 31 births from three females up to 2018.

Many volunteers took part in the creation of the Magdeburger Tiergarten, which opened 1 July 1950.

[6] From 1979 to 1998, during the appointment for the new director, Zoologist Wolfgang Puschmann, the zoo became internationally famous for its breeding of black rhinos and other threatened species.

1981 started a renovation of the zoo, and a lot of classical exhibits were replaced by more modern enclosures.

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