Business as usual. Of course most animals (including orang utans) will be honestly poached and smuggled. This is going to be just another...
Have you ever encountered any breeding station for apes in western Africa, apart from rehab stations that wouldn't surely send babies abroad to a...
Almost every major zoo in former socialistic countries of Europe held saiga after the war. Just from my memory there were animals in a numer of...
There is a paper on trial husbandry of Pyrenean Desman in one of the old International ZOO Yearbooks, just don't have time to find it. The Russian...
Russian (as well as Ukrainian and to some part Belorussian) zoos remain a puzzle for me. Some of them have apparently huge amount of money for...
If you check the "collection" on the EARAZA page it is indeed a collection of some single specimens, with a few species kept in any numbers. What...
There are two sides of the story obviously. One is that Moscow ZOO never went through unavoidable proces of making it more visitor friendly and...
All chimps apart from very old and suffering from ehumatism Boy are hand-raised monkeys, usually alone what makes forming a cohesive group...
The funny thing is that European zoos are having troubles now to place all the Indian rhinos bred and can supply a number of animals back to India.
Biofloor is a deep (min. 1.2 m) mixture of woodchips and shredded bark that is watered daily. There is a drain underneath as well allowing for...
The foot problem in rhinos is well researched and the reason is surely not a niacin deficiency but simply wrong kind of flooring (concrete, epoxy...
Indeed, the so called Indian muntiacs in Europe that are listed in ISIS (a couple of months ago there was quite a numer of them) , apart perhaps...
Katowice zoo is equal to Chorzow and Silesian zoo. The trouble is that the zoo is placed on grounds belonging to three different administrative...
The original group og black lechwe was illegally imported to Spain, confiscated and placed (of all places) in Aqualeon. It was many years ago....
Seems there was a rather large trade (to compare with the total absence for decades) in echidnas worldwide. I know they were also recently offered...
I'm sure that if enough interest for platypus could be genrated in China they would get it! It is unfortunately only a matter of money and other...
There are rumours that a group of senior staff had been fired in Rotterdam ZOO recently due to long planned cuts in cost. Any confirmation?
A single pichi lived in the Old Poznan ZOO, Poland for about 10 years in 70-ties.
Actually there were shrew tenrecs Microgale talazaci and M.dobsonii kept in Washington zoo in the 70ties and 80ties. They proved to be strangely...
Another way would be to introduce platypus to New Zealand (who noone thought about that 100 years ago!) and then it would be easy to export them...
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