That may well be ..., is R. Topola - the director - and team should confront the underlying issues with digestive problems that have affected the giraffe herd over the last few years. I do believe these can be overcome. Simply saying it is no good .., does not hold up.
No?? We are talking about living beings here who can`t protect themselves. I`d say investigate first, find the problems, solve them, and THEN bring in new giraffes. Bringing in more giraffes to let them die is totally irresponsible.
OK, I did specifically remember the name of the director cited in the newspaper. It has been a year or so. QUOTE "- Najbardziej zależało nam na tym, żeby dotarł cały i zdrowy - mówi Ryszard Topola, dyrektor łódzkiego ogrodu zoologicznego. - Na szczęście mamy godnego zaufania przewoźnika z Czech. To jego ponad trzechsetny transport tych zwierząt. Okazało się, że nie zawiódł i tym razem." UNQOUTE Source: http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/kraj/1,34309,5300129.html
ANOTHER giraffe died in Łódź. It was Lokatka - 3 years-old female from Warsaw. She and two other females from Leipzig and Płock came in August to join alone male Tofik (died in October). Now zoo has two giraffes and doesn't think about new animals.
I have changed my mind on this. Lodz Zoo has lost a long list of way too many giraffe to various different medical issues and digestive ailments. I would seriously consider moving the remainder to one of the other giraffe holders in Poland. Does Lodz Zoo have a new exhibit or are they still in the old giraffe yards?
0.2 Snow leopard have been exported from Lodz to Padmaja Naidu Zoo, India this week http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ta-en-route-to-Hills/articleshow/23552739.cms
Lodz Zoo is expacting to recieve several new animals: From Tierpark Berlin a male Binturong will come to be paired with the only Binturong - a female - in Poland. From Edinburgh 2 male Darwin rheas will come to Lodz. Other animals which will soon arrive are a Muntjac and a Kea.
On Wednesday, I will be driving from Wroclaw back to Warsaw and plan to stop at Lodz on the way to do the zoo. Similarly to what I asked about Opole Zoo, I was wondering roughly how long it would take to see the zoo properly (I will probably have less than five hours at the zoo, so I may have to go a bit quickly) and also for any advice in terms of easily missed things, specific animals/exhibits to look out for, etc. According to their website, the zoo is closed for the public holiday of the 1st of November, but I will be visiting on the 2nd so I think that should be fine. Thanks
I Just thought it would be worth posting in the forum thread that I've uploaded a few pictures of Lodz Zoo from my visit today. Prior to the pictures that I've just uploaded, the most recent pictures from Lodz were in 2014.
How did you find the zoo? And is there any sign of anything happening yet wth the massive Asian House development?
I found the zoo to be kind of as expected. I expected a mediocre zoo, and that's what Lodz was. I wouldn't call it bad, nor was it really good. Most of the enclosures were fairly average, not terrible but nothing outstanding. Though there were a few notable poor enclosures such as the Sun Bear enclosure. Although I didn't see any bears in it, I assume they were locked in the indoor area which, judging from the size of the building, must have been very small. There were a few quite nice bits, the aquarium, terrarium, and bird house were all good, and there were a few nice species too like the Tataupa Tinamou (my first time seeing the species), some fairly unusual herptiles, along with some somewhat-unusual mammals like Pig-tailed Macaque, Vontsira, and Tayra. There was a fairly diverse collection of ABCs as well considering it's not a huge zoo. The zoo did seem quite tired and run down in parts, and there were quite a few examples of enclosures that formerly held much larger animals but would now be considered too small holding smaller species e.g. former elephant enclosure holding Tapir and Capybara and the zoo did look in need of investment. However, the side of the zoo that looked the oldest and most run down is the bit that is planned to be demolished for the new Orientarium Asian House development. I should quickly point out though that my visit was on an overcast Tuesday that was slightly drizzly at times and the zoo was really empty, so I only saw three other visitors throughout the entire day, and that may have made the zoo seem a bit more run down than it actually was. As far as the massive plans for the Orientarium development, there were signs in a couple of places with maps of the development, and there was a display in the bird house with an animation showing a walkthrough of what it will look like. If the development does happen, it will be really excellent for the zoo, it needs something just like this – a big development replacing many of the oldest and least attractive enclosures – although to be honest, it really does not look like the kind of zoo that has anything like the money and investment to pull it off.
Thanks for the great mini-review, but this paragraph struck me as interesting. Is the new development really called "Orientarium"? The term "Orient" seems rather outdated and in 2016 President Obama actually signed a bill banning the use of the term "Orient" on all federal documents.
Yes, it is really called the Orientarium, and yes, it also struck me as a rather un-PC name (I don't know if you've seen it, but there's a thread dedicated to this development here which seems not be in the Lodz Zoo sub-forum and could probably do with being moved if a moderator is reading this). I *think* it's probably a case of the term "orient" not having the same politically incorrect connotations in Polish that the term does in English, though a native Polish speaker can probably advise whether this hypothesis is correct.
