![Children, led by teachers, visit pigs raised in a zoo built inside a kindergarten in Beijing on Tuesday. (Photo/chinanews.com) Children, led by teachers, visit pigs raised in a zoo built inside a kindergarten in Beijing on Tuesday. (Photo/chinanews.com)](U363P886T1D186171F12DT20151028151615.jpg)
Children, led by teachers, visit pigs raised in a zoo built inside a kindergarten in Beijing on Tuesday. (Photo/chinanews.com)
Children love animals. But children in cities now have few chances for contact with live animals. A kindergarten in Beijing creatively solved the problem by setting up a small-scale zoo, Chinanews.com reported on Wednesday.
More than 300 animals in about 50 categories are raised in the mini-zoo.
Swans, monkeys, alpacas and red-crowned cranes are among the animals raised at the zoo, which is approved by authorities.
![A child watches a monkey. (Photo/chinanews.com) A child watches a monkey. (Photo/chinanews.com)](http://www.ecns.cn/2015/1028/20151028151456.jpg)
A child watches a monkey. (Photo/chinanews.com)