Wow- the first Grevy-Zebra foal born in germany since 2014. Hopefully, it will grew up, last year, not only one Grevy was raised in germany. So its the first offspring for the new stallion.So I hope, he was in love with more than one of the nice ladies....
Springtime 2017. Later that year the new South America themed area will start getting cleared and build (in the historical front part of the zoo - old Carnivore Housing / Przewalski horse and owl aviaries).
@Leone The opening of the Himalaya area with with Snow leopards, Red pandas and walkable aviary for Western eurasian griffon vultures and Waldrapps will take place in summer/fall next year. You can find a planning sketch and article in German here on page Nr. 2 http://www.zoo-leipzig.de/fileadmin/dateien/Neues/Zoo-Live/Zoo_live_2_2016.pdf @Kifaru The main construction works for Himalaya started this week. I suspekt that spring 2017 is too optimistic. As far as I know the construction of the South America part will start next year after the Snow leopard have moved to Himalaya, but they will start to empty the enclosures in this area soon.
I spoke to a keeper recently and he just said 2017, but I don't know how much he actually knew about it and I didn't ask if he ment spring/summer/fall/winter. In any case you could easily be right because these things often end up delayed.
@Vogelcommando You have already posted this news^^ On thursday Southwest African lion male MATADI (15, born at Lisboa Zoo) will leave the zoo to Tierpark Jaderberg to retire there. During the next days two young male lions will arrive to start a new pure breeding group in the future - probably offspring from Basel Zoo in Switzerland.
Kalahari lion males MAJO and MOTSHEGETSI (* at Basel Zoo, May 28th 2015, sire: MBALI, dam: OKOA) arrived thursday evening.
At least 4 Dwarf crocodiles (Osteolaemus tetraspis tetraspis) hatched during the last days under help position of their dam ELSE. They will stay in the enclosure they hatched together with their parents.
Not sure, but they appeared to be separated on a recent visit. I can't say I'm unhappy about that! The hyrax walk-through was also closed.
Black rhinos, too! It's one of those situations where it could work, but why take the risk? A more arboreal primate would perhaps have been a better choice.
well I'm always a big fan of not putting carnivores in with smaller animals, but that's just me. It seems to be a bit of a trend in zoos nowadays unfortunately. As you say, it could work, or it could work for a period of time, or it could work with certain individuals - but how many animals are they willing to risk being killed in the process? It's a zoo, not the wild.
