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Status of animal collections on 01/07/2012: Mammals – 68 species (256 specimens), Birds – 96 (720), Reptiles – 55 (197), Amphibian – 31 (268), fish – 48 (550), Invertebrates – 48 species.
Stress attack in a tiger : http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/...-stress-attack-after-man-hugs-him/502853.html
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Elephant bull Horas broken the right tusk against fence, after the cables were replaced by metal pipes to 'prevent him from rubbing' (which choice did he have other than stereotypic behavior?!)... Tusk is broken at gum level and pulp is exposed. I'm afraid that Horas is repeating the fate of his predecessor Boy, who also broken his tusks...
OMG the two Striped hyenas are so adorable Do you know any news about the idea of bringing dolphins to Kiev Zoo?
Did the Ukrainian media give more details about the building process? The newspapers I read only metioned that Ms Panettiere and mr Klitschko "made it possible" or some such. This is great, no question, we need more prominent arm twisting in the zoo world!! What I see here is, builders and zookeepers made the most of the meagre possibilities they had, and it looks like they just called a solid local construction company. No great names. Because this is what I reproach a lot of zoos: they want the new houses built by star architects! => expensive and often ugly (Stuttgart. The new Givskud projekt)
I read that he had an entirely new Quarters? Is that not true? Is this the same indoor enclosure space that he had before, but now remodelled, or an entirely new one? And outside?
He got a completely new indoor housing, which was expanded as much as the building's boundaries allow (demolition of more solid walls is dangerous), and the outdoor exhibit is converted from the past wolves' one (which originally belonged to gorillas...) There would be grass and climbing structures, and I guess hot wire with water moat as boundaries. Anyway, Tony is quite old (he turned 40 this year), and the zoo is certainly NOT getting other gorillas in future, neither as company for Tony nor as replacement when he dies. Those exhibits can be used probably for lemurs or monkeys then.
The zoo is still banished from EARAZA... But some time ago they got black & white ruffed lemurs 'from Great Britain'. How possible?! ? ???????? ???????? ?????????? ????????? ?????? (????) - ????? ???? ????? ??????? ?? 60 ??????????? ? ?????? | ???????
Is that his old outside cage on the right? In which case it now connects via the little bridge to the new open areas. Has he dared go outside into the 'open' yet I wonder?
He will go outside next year, it's too cold now. To the right, there are probably outside cages for smaller primates of the same monkey house.
The white rhino female has died at the age of 46. She would be preserved, luckily. Here's skeleton of her mate that died in 2008 at 45,5 years. http://nubip.edu.ua/sites/default/files/34_2.JPG The zoo plans to get a new white rhino, presumably a young one from South Africa.
Article about the dead of the White rhino : https://www.kyivpost.com/article/gu...dest-white-rhino-dies-in-kyiv-zoo-410577.html
Any think worth seeing here? Depending on flights into Kiev I may have a spare morning for a trip around the zoo? Only in for a day (CL final) and want to do some tourist sites in the afternoon before the game.
Hello Taun. You may be interested in the nine-banded armadillo, Arabian barn owl, Caspian gull, Cuban and Mongolian toads, Orlov's, black-spotted casque-headed and pied warted tree frogs, Dumeril's Madagascar swift lizard and three-lined girdled lizard. Kiev also has the only Pallas's rose finches, red-spotted beaked snakes and venerable collared lizards listed on ZTL.
