Mobile apps and more

Available on iOS and Android, in French only, Adeline the giraffe’s journey is a free app which invites children aged 5 and above to explore the 5 biozones in the Parc Zoologique de Paris either on their own or with their parents, following the tracks of Adeline the giraffe.

• Apple Store
• Google Play

This app invites children are to freely explore five major regions in the world, represented by the biozones of Sahel-Sudan, Patagonia, the Amazon, Europe and Madagascar at the Parc Zoologique de Paris. During the game, they learn how to identify animal and plant species on our planet by looking for Adeline, the Park’s intrepid giraffe who has set off on a world tour.

A co-production from the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Gédéon Programmes, MFP, francetv nouvelles écritures and francetv éducation (designed and produced by Benjamin Gibeaux). In French only

Introducing "Le Parc Zoologique de Paris, des origines à la rénovation" (Parc Zoologique de Paris, from roots to renovation), co-published by the Museum Press and Éditions Somogy. This beautiful book tells the richly layered story of this legendary site through its 300 or so illustrations.

"Zoos are not alien to the world around them. Their history reflects maybe only too well the history of the men who built them, the cities where they were built and the cultures which sustained them." Dominique Pinon

This collection and its appendices, which include maps of various European zoos and an extensive bibliography, make it an excellent reference book as well.

The authors:

• Dominique Pinon is a DPLG landscape architect and historian who has twenty years of specialist experience in the study, restoration and management of parks and gardens. Together with Isabelle Warmoes, he conducted a historical study prior to the zoo’s renovation.
• Isabelle Warmoes is a historian and design engineer at the Musée des Plans-Reliefs (Paris), and has conducted historical studies of various sites and organised several exhibitions.
• Maryvonne Leclerc-Cassan is a veterinary doctor and Doctor of Science who joined the Museum in 1969. She ran the Parc Zoologique de Paris, then the Museum’s zoo department and finally the Museum’s botanical and zoological gardens department.

Le Parc Zoologique de Paris, des origines à la rénovation
(in French only)
co-published by the Museum Press and Éditions Somogy
296 pages / 300 or so illustrations / bibliography / index
24.8 x 28 cm, paperback with flaps
€39

Available in bookstores