This is the Czech Republic’s second-largest zoo, and holds EEP and EAZA membership, which means that it’s up to scratch when it comes to European ethical standards.

 This isn’t an attraction for people who want to just gawp at caged animals; Ostrava Zoo makes a real effort to educate.

 Take the new House of Evolution, which traces the history of evolution in West Africa with a multi-environment exhibition containing more than 200 species, among them invertebrates, reptiles, birds, mammals and primitive Sarcopterygii fish.