Varda, the beloved Asian Matriarch of the zoo, died at the age of 66. She died with her family besides her and was mother to many notable...
Hello, I want to ask some questions. Will Zoo Granby elephants breed together?(Tutume and Thandi). Thandi was brought from Pittsburgh Zoo. I heard...
Sometimes with elephants I see an expression that I find just as familiar as I do foreign - as if I have known this elephant all my life... when...
Yea, but the orginal pagoda was such eye candy. Man 'I miss historical ecxhitecture. I was in Berlin in 2022 but Icould see the bulding being...
RIP She has reached respectable age.
Viktor at the Berlin Zoo, 7/8/22.
No I don’t see breeding happening. Granby has plans to phase out elephants in the next few years so I doubt that they’d try to breed them now.
When I visited Tierpark Berlin in 2018 it was the first time I had seen an African elephant since I was a kid, everywhere else I have been has...
Fi-nal-ly, there is an official update on the elephant building which includes some really interesting news and pictures. I'll just drop it for...
This is all the data I am aware of (but some of this* may be open for interpretation): - Overall size of the building: 7,000m² (or 0.7 hectares /...
"Highly speculative" This is a zoo gossip page. None of us here are experts so everything is going to be speculative.
I have done both Berlin Zoo and Tierpark many times in 1 day. It's a matter of starting early and staying until closing time. However, when you...
The sign above the exit at my zoo has an Asian elephant on it which was phased out mid 2010's and has a military parrot on it which the zoo has...
I really do hope they move away later from AI with their elephants. Possibly, what needs to happen is evaluation where the females in the herd are...
If the former wildebeest paddock at Tierpark is indeed for okapi as has been suggested, it seems logical that the enclosure improvements at the...
Shedd would be a full day for me, rope-drop to close, guaranteed. Especially since it uses standard operating hours (9-5), whereas Georgia was...
The article on the website of Biopark Valencia says this: Efforts are aimed at controlled reproduction and for this we have relied on specialists...
This is highly speculative .. as Asiatic elephants are quite rounded out at the best of times. Further, the bull has been there a few years ......
Coincidence has it that your trip to Germany fell together with the arrival of Andreas Knieriem, then brand new head of Berlin's three large...
Well, I have spent an entire day and walked more than 10 miles at the Tierpark but I have never done a "complete tour". Nor at Berlin Zoo or any...
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