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Animal news from zoo Praha
07-10-2008

I thougt I could start a thread for diverse small animal news from this zoo and I hope some other local members will help me and post too.

So here we go with the latest news (seen past weekend).

Male polar bear UMCA is going to Gelsenkirchen/Germany tommorow.


Little Grebes can now be spotted in the bird house called S´chuan.


Flamingo colony (the one next to tapirs) is breeding, despite the late season with bad weather and even temperature below zero in the night. I could count 8 chicks 0-8 weeks old, and at least half a dosen pairs still incubating eggs.

15-10-2008

Female Polar Bear BORA is probably gravid, a cubbing den has been prepaired for her.
There are three freshly born Desmarest's Hutias in their enclosure in the upper part of the zoo, next to Bush dogs.
A Chilean Flamingo chick number 9 of this season has hatched.
There are 2 Asian Fairy Bluebird chicks in a nest, built at the top of a big stone inside of the walk-though Sichuan house, nicely visible to visitors.
A Cuban Turtle has hatched directly in an atrium of the big cats house, two Annam Leaf Turtles in an incubator.
The 9 Magpie Goose chicks hatched during this summer are still not visible to visitors.
The pair of Buffy Fish-Owls laid a first egg ever.

24-11-2008

A new male Secretary bird arrived from Holland, it´s a mate for a female living here alone for many years.


A new reptile species is on show, a Chinese crocodile lizard, in one of these small terraria in elephant house (there were placed newly hatched crocodile tejus before).

The big vulture aviary is empty now due to a reconstruction. The animal inhabitants (european black vultures, egyptian vultures and a red kite) are now partly off-show and partly in the bateleur eagle aviary.


A caracal arrived from Berlin TP (older pic of its mate).


The pool for south african fur seals is still beeing renovated. It will take 6-9 months to coplete it, the seals are during this period off-show.
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Giraffe female Sandra went to Budapest. Male Southern Three-banded Armadillo came back from France. Young male Red Panda arrived from zoo Ostrava. One sitatunga and one alpaca calf were born. 7 Rufous Beaked Snakes hatched.

24-11-2008

I hope, Peta will not see this horrible picture...

07-02-2009

What happened during last weeks:

- the first ever Buffy Fish-Owl (Ketupa ketupu) chick hatched, it´s now 3 weeks old and is beeing parent-reared
- there is one jaguarundi cub in the felid house
- there is a new night exhibit for norther Luzon giant cloud rats in the indonesian house, slender loris are now also on show
- one of the oldest Prague animals died - a female western turkey vulture, imported 25 September 1964 from Havana Zoo, her mate of the same age is still alive
- male Rothschild´s giraffe calf Slávek was born 19 January, parents are Johan and Diana/Guinevra
- a new species on show - Cameroon sailfin chameleon (Chamaeleo montinum) in the small terarium between exhibits of rock hyraxes and Gabon talapoins

Some other youngs were born/hatched: aoudad, Kafue lechwe, blesbok, small-clawed otters, dwarf mongooses, brushtail possum, western woylie, ground cuscus, parma wallaby, lesser bamboo rat, Cape ground squirrels, Belanger's tree-shrew, Cape barren geese, pied imperial pigeon, white-striped geckos, stepe runners (Eremias arguta), brown-roofed turtles (Kachuga smithii), turtle? Cyclemys enigmatica...

07-02-2009

Ahoj Jano
Could You write me when Prague Zoo will start building new Elephant House? Hope soon.

How does Kamba feel like? Are there any chance for baby from her? What with rest of gorilla family?

Cheers
Irek

07-02-2009

14th February young male polar bear from Brno will arrive.

08-02-2009

Ahoj Irku
I´m sorry but I don´t know when the construction of the new elephant house will start, the zoo haven´t announced it yet. But I think it could be at the end of this year.

It´s highly unlikely Kamba could be pregnant any more, she has no cycle and zoo decided not to continue with the hormonal therapy (that led to her first pregnancy). But I think she feels good, the group is harmonic and she now plays the role of a beloved "grand-mother". She spends most of her time together with Moja (4), they even share every night one common nest. And she also works regularly as a baby-sitter for Tatu, the youngest one in the group.

15-03-2009

News from the last weeks:

Two Rotschild-giraffe calves were born, both are females. Parents of the first one (born 1 March) are Johan (10) and Nora (10). Parents of the second one (born 8 March) are Šimon (23) and Kleopatra (17). A calf number four of this year is on the way, cow Berta (21) is due at the end of March.

Zoo imported 2,0 Dall sheep from Krefeld, Germany. Together with 0,2 imported from Leipzig, Germany last year, it´s the beginning of a new breeding herd, I hope.

A clouded leopard cub was born on 4 March. It´s the third litter of the young pair Luzon and Buri, imported from Howletts, UK in 2006. The cat house is open as usualy, but it´s unlikely the cub will leave the wooden box for some weeks.

15-03-2009

Thanks so much Jana for keeping us updated on news from Prague and Dvur Kralove!! Two very, very interesting zoos and I really enjoy to hear everything about births, deaths, transfers and new enclosures!

20-03-2009

Does Prague still keep Fawn-breasted Bowerbird?

With both males at Berlin and Brugelette have died within the last year, this would leave 1.1 at Köln (believe 1 of their 2 males have died, as well) and 1.0 at Prague. Unless the one at Prague also has died.

A interesting group of birds and the Fawn-breasted is the only species of this family still kept in Europe, but with only 1 female remaning in all of Europe the future dont look that hopfull anyway (neither in the North America, only males remaning there).

20-03-2009

I saw that male alive during my last visit in Prague zoo 2 weeks ago. He lives in one of those old aviaries in pheasantry, mixed with Mino dumonti, Henicophaps albifrons and Otidiphaps nobilis. Very active bird, sad to hear there is (almost) no hope for this species in european zoos.

22-03-2009

Young male polar bear Tom (* 2007, ZOO Brno, Czech republic) has already joined Alberta, female, who is a bit older and she was born in ZOO Prague. Both bears were kept together for few hours - and then they were separated again. Alberta seemed to be afraid of Tom, but no problem occured. ZOO wants to continue with keeping them together for few hours a day... and if everything is ok, Tom and Alberta will finally share their exhibit all the time.

Tom, brother BIll and mother Cora in ZOO Brno

29-03-2009

Bora finally gave birth to a cub, who did not survive the first night. I did not find this info her, so I add it, althought it happened 12/7/2008.


Pool for fur seals, which is being built, will be up to 230 cm deep. Plan:

30-03-2009

I think you made a typing mistake in the date, the polar bear cub of Bora died on 11.11.2008.


A second Northern Luzon cloud rat young was born recently. I just hope it´s not yet another male - because all the youngs so far in Europe I´m aware of (Fousek in Prague, the death and the reared young in Jihlava, and the one in Wroclaw) were/are all males.

New webcam has been launched. Cow Eliška is due within next two weeks - it´s possible to follow the birth and the first days of a Rotschild´s giraffe calf here .