Zoo (Civ5)

Zoo
Introduced in Brave New World
Building of the Renaissance Era
Cost
Maintenance	2
Required
Technology	Printing Press
Effects
+2 Happiness Requires Colosseum

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Game Info

Advanced happiness-boosting building. Replaces the Theatre in Brave New World. Requires Colosseum.

• +2 Happiness

Strategy

The Zoo is a building included in the Brave New World expansion and replaces the Theatre, compared to which it generates +2 Happiness instead of +3.

A Zoo increases the Happiness of your empire, but it cannot provide more Happiness than there are Citizens in the city. The city must possess a Colosseum before the Zoo can be constructed.

Civilopedia entry

The oldest known zoological menagerie (or "zoo") has been excavated at Hierakonpolis and dates to c. 3500 BC; the oldest existing zoo, the Tiergarten Schoenbrunn in Vienna, evolved from the exotic animal collection maintained by the Habsburg dynasty and was opened to the public in 1765 AD.