Paris's first ever 'ocean entertainment centre' is a hybrid aquarium-cinema complex containing over 500 species of fish, invertebrates, sharks and coral, and several cinema...

Founded in 1860, this amusement park and garden has bears, a Normandy-style farm and an aviary, as well as boat rides, a funfair with Chinese dragon rollercoaster, flying...

Heads rolled during the Terror, leaving many an aristocratic collection of exotic animals without a home. This ménagerie became the solution in 1794. Nowadays, its inhabitants...

The basement of this art deco palace, built for the colonial exhibition in 1931, contains the small but much-loved city aquarium and its colonial crocodiles, brought from Dakar...

As well as a beautiful château, the Parc de Thoiry houses one of Europe's first animal reserves. Follow the long safari park trail, accessible only by car, and see zebras rub...

Located on the edge of the Bois de Vincennes, the main Paris zoo was founded in the 1930s and laid out with fake mountains, lakes and ditches to avoid the use of cages where...