I thought the whole place was ok really, the admission cost was very affordable - change from a tenner if you take the average family of four!
As zoos go, I have seen better, Berlin is probably the best, but also a lot lot worse - including in Britain! I certainly didn’t see any distressing sights, and I think people have to get off their high horse if you’ll excuse the pun…..
Let’s be clear, all any animal ever really does is eat, sleep, fight, defecate and copulate, so I would relate most of what people claim to have seen to those 5 natural behaviours - if an animal has a wound, chances are he started a fight with another of his species and lost, exactly what would also happen in the wild.
My only complaint is that the aquarium is so expensive compared to the zoo, but we did it and thought it was absolutely first class - especially the Jellyfish exhibits and the whale.
Overall impression: Good day out, very affordable. Would do it again in a year or so.