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Optimism of People at the Foot of Mt. Taesong

The Central Zoo and the Natural History Museum at the foot of the picturesque Mt. Taesong are crowded with many working people and schoolchildren.

The number of new "family members" is on the increase at the Central Zoo with animals of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and rare animals of the world living in natural environment, adding pleasure to the visitors.
This year, too, more than 40 species of animals including the Korean tiger, Asiatic black bear, lemur and Papio hanadryas brought forth over 110 young, making the fauna of the Central Zoo more diverse and richer with each passing day.
Laughter of visitors can be heard everywhere in the zoo. But what catches the eyes of the visitors is the places where seals and other animals display their feats.
The fur seals, hair seals, monkeys, pet dogs and other animals proudly performing their singular feats are very popular among the visitors.
The Natural History Museum with a total floor space of over 35,000 square metres is a peculiar centre for disseminating scientific knowledge and cultural recreation resort, which gives comprehensive knowledge of the history of the earth, the origin of life and living things.

The museum was inaugurated in July 2016. Hundreds of scientific data have been supplemented to the museum, more than 900 animal and plant specimens of over 200 kinds displayed anew and different educational surroundings built as compared with the beginning after its inauguration. This year alone, upwards of 130 animal and plant specimens of 20 kinds have been displayed anew.
Different kinds of specimens and scientific data have been constantly supplemented and updated on a high level in terms of scientific accuracy, practicality and visual nature, widening the scope of cultural knowledge of the working people and schoolchildren and contributing to sci-tech exchanges related to animals and plants.
Many schoolchildren visit the Natural History Museum for a day.

Through the exhibits in the museum, the schoolchildren not only consolidate the theoretical understanding of contents they learned at schools but also acquire methods of scientific pursuit and foster their faculties of inquiry.
The Central Zoo with a conspicuous world of animals and the Natural History Museum reminiscent of the world of nature going back to hundreds of millions of years will give pleasure and optimism to their visitors in the future, too.