Animal enclosure

The research enclosure of the chair of forest zoology is located right next to Cotta-Bau in Tharandt. It consists of eleven parts that can be connected with each other in various configurations. Current animal species inhabiting the enclosure is an American mink. Research on the animals in the enclosure reveal details on the behaiviour of their wild relatives. Research has for example covered testing of various attractants, calculating coefficients of digestibility of different eatables and documenting pugmarks.

Our animals

Male American mink "Charly" in (German)