The Ostrava Municipality has started to accept applications for open position - a zoo director. Closing date is 26th February. Job starts on 1th...
Today the 50 year old female elephant Jumba was put to sleep due to age related health issues. She was wild-born and then caught in 1971, when she...
One would expect both these elderly elephant will be carefully managed for elderly care / end of life cycle management. Anyone have any idea what...
Ostrava Zoo uses an old elephant house for red river hogs. Riverbanks Zoo plans to convert an elephant house to a rhino.
It occurred to me to start a poll on the best ASIAN ELEPHANT breeding enclosure in Europe. I haven't found any poll on this topic yet, and I'm...
I'm not really sure what you mean by Jihlava having thematic areas and Ostrava not. They have an African rainforest house, African savanna,...
I like to Jihlava that they have made the most of their small space they have. Interestingly, however, it is not exaggeratedly at all. Cat House...
I can't comment on much of this, but I am shocked that you mention Chester for Tigers! Personally I think it is one of the poorest exhibits in...
I'm going to try and stick to zoos I've visited only for this, but also since this is in the general zoo forum I will apply all zoos I have...
Having visited Jihlava and Ostrava on October 19 - 20, here are my impressions. It was 15-20 degrees both days and great zoo weather. However, I...
Firstly thanks everyone for their responses, I didn't expect to get so much attention for this rather far away trip! Thanks for the comment, the...
I write this a year on from my trip, having been rightly shamed into writing some more on it! Thanks for the nudge @snowleopard ! My intention was...
I appreciate all the thought you've given this, EE. The timing of Bandara's death is very interesting in all of this. He died 16 months after...
And here are the last view Czech collections, including their best zoo, Prague. Ecocentre Huslik: Caspian gull Praha (Stanice přírodovědců):...
So that's day one done! Spent a very enjoyable 3 hours in Krakow zoo. I wasn't sure what to make of it initially: the elephant enclosure isn't...
The conclusion! Day 8 This was a bit of a wasted day, unfortunately the train times didn’t help me much and with a 1000 checkout time from my...
Well this must have been an incredibly long labour of love. I've tried to do this in the past with projects such as the Zoo Community Fantasy Game...
So I bolded ones I've seen in the wild, and made red the ones I've never seen. Seems like you have at least 8 mammals on me! I have some work...
The purpose of this thread is to evaluate the impact of the Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus on the captive population of Asian elephants and...
Article about the Mongoose lemur-birth : Mongoose Lemur Baby Is a First for Zoo Ostrava
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