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Giant rock formation at Tierpark Hagenbeck Date opened 1907
Location Lokstedter Grenzstraße 2, 22527 Hamburg (Stellingen
quarter) Coordinates 53°35′47″N 9°56′16″E﻿ / ﻿53.59639°N
9.93778°E﻿ / 53.59639; 9.93778Coordinates: 53°35′47″N 9°56′16″E﻿
/ ﻿53.59639°N 9.93778°E﻿ / 53.59639; 9.93778 Website
www.hagenbeck-tierpark.de    Animal trading[edit]  In 1863 the
elder Hagenbeck began collecting exotic animals that came
through the port. By the 1870s, the trade had proved more
lucrative than his fish shop, and Hagenbeck had become one of
the most prominent exotic animal traders in all of Europe.[2] In
1874, the younger Hagenbeck traveled around the world collecting
animals. Among his collections, however, were also human beings
which he exhibited in "human zoos". Hagenbeck decided to exhibit
Samoan and Sami people (Laplanders) as "purely natural"
populations. The Sami were presented with thei