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Old 09-03-2011

Births and arrivals at the zoo in the first few months of the year are:

6 southern pochard have been put on show in the indoor pool of the common hippos.
"M'Zima" the female white rhino died, she was aged 38 and was imported from Kenya in 1977.
1.0 okapi "Steve" arrived from Leipzig.
1.0 banteng born.
0.1 nyala born.
1.0 Australian pelican hatched, his parent were imported to the zoo from Surubaya, Indonesia in 1994.
1.1 sable antelope born, the female was actually born in 2010.
0.0.2 jaguarundi born.
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Old 09-03-2011

Lovely; hope to go there in September before Zoohistorica in Leipzig.
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Old 23-03-2011

An update on the cause of Knut's death:

BBC News - Polar bear Knut died of brain damage, tests suggest

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Berlin Zoo said in a statement a preliminary necropsy conducted on Monday revealed "significant changes to the brain, which could be seen as the reason for the sudden death".
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A further 2011 update 0.0.2 maguari stork hatched (3rd year in a row)
2.2 bongo born (after a 3 year break in breeding)
0.0.2 capybara born (1st breeding for 10 years)
1.2 warthog born
0.0.4 emu hatched
0.1 black howler monkey born
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0.0.2 woma (Aspidites ramsayi) hatched a first hatching at the zoo.

"Ko Raya" the 2 year old, Berlin born Asian elephant has died, the zoo states "probably" from elephant herpes.
http://www.morgenpost.de/berlin-aktu...liner-Zoo.html
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Old 28-05-2011

two calves in one year.... what a shame, both of them were female too.
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Old 14-06-2011

Small news

2.1 Siberian ibex born

A new enclosure completed for the zoo's group of Sumatran orangutan, the enclosure covers 600m2.
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A female Andean condor has been hatched at the zoo, the first since 1989, this bird has been hand reared.

13 ostrich have also been hatched.
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1.0 Persian leopard born
0.0.1 lion tailed macaque born
1.1 Corsac fox arrived
0.0.1 red river hog born (a first breeding for the zoo)
0.1 Boehm's zebra born
0.0.2 European forest reindeer born

0.0.2 James's flamingo hatched
0.0.1 Andean flamingo hatched
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It's about time the WWT sent all Andean Flamingos deemed reproductively viable to join this group
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0.1 Babirusa arrived from Antwerp
0.2 nyala born
0.0.1 common hippo born
0.1 giant anteater born
3.0 blackbuck born
1.2 Chinese water deer arrived from Whipsnade
0.0.2 barasingha born
0.2 Californian sealion born
 


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