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Planète Sauvage (''Wild Planet'' in English) is a French private zoological park opened in 1992, managed by the and situated in Port-Saint-Père, near Nantes in the Atlantic coast. It covers about of land, where 1,000 animals of about 150 species live in captivity. It is one of the three parks holding bottlenose dolphins in metropolitan France. ==History== * 1992 : Opening of "Safari Africain". There were 500 animals. * 1994 : Opening of an Ivory Coast village. Planète Sauvage tried to open an "African village" attraction with men and women who, by contract, were to be topless when the weather permitted.〔Françoise Lancelot, (Un safari parc transformé en exposition coloniale ), L'Humanité, 13 Avril 1994.〕 Sponsored by Biscuiterie Saint-Michel as part of the promotion for their "Bamboula" cookies, the Cote d'Ivoirian village, rebuilt at Port-Saint-Père, was labeled "Bamboula Village" after the eponymous children's character.〔Pascal Blanchard, Gilles Boëtsch et Nanette Jacomijn Snoep (dir.), ''Exhibitions : L'invention du sauvage'', Actes Sud / Musée du quai Branly, Paris, 2011, p.348. ISBN 978-2-330-00260-2〕 Public outcry led to cancellation of the project, as it was judged to come too close to being a "human zoo". * 1998 : The "Safari Africain" is renamed Planète Sauvage with a new sea lions show. * 2003 : Construction of a suspension bridge, above the ground, to observe a tribe of 70 macaques: The jungle trail. * 2005 : Planète Sauvage joins the group Compagnie des Alpes, European leader of the family entertainment. * 2006 : Creation of the « bivouac au safari ». * 2008 : Exhibition "Planète Fragile : Fragile beauty from earth" * 2009 : Opening of "Cité marine" a dolphinarium where five dolphins live. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Planete Sauvage (zoological park)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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