When Copenhagen received the Tas.devils, one of the main arguments for them getting the species was that they would built a breeding facility,...
I'm not aware of it ever having been attempted, but suspect it would be comparable in difficulty to keeping whale sharks. Two main problems are...
Nobody has ever given the impression that they would breed. Since they're rescues that can't be released the US Fish & Wildlife Service (the...
No mating pandas (though the female apparently did the "present rump" that often happens before mating) but a male white rhino was born yesterday.
Both have indoor tanks and both have large open-topped "tanks". Well, unlike Austria, Denmark isn't landlocked, so not complete, which would...
There certainly are some zoos in that region that are well worth a visit and nobody mentioned Skandinavisk Dyrepark (some 15 minutes in car from...
Not really directly related to the subject of this thread, but it's perhaps worth noting that there's a handful of ways of judging "largest...
The captive Titicaca water frogs are normal. It's just that many people think about the giants filmed by Coustea half a century ago when they...
That was the case for the butterfly splitfin perhaps a decade or two ago, but not anymore. By now it is a species where I wish a few places that...
My reply was specifically about species in walk-through exhibits. IMO, one of them is a bad choice for that. The other is worse. Ordinary keeping...
correction: the one I was thinking of "only" was near-fatal (Travis in the infamous 2009 attack in Connecticut). However, my knowledge of cases in...
Brest's abyss box was limited to inverts rather than fish. However, depending on how people define "deep sea fish", there are either no places...
2 (male, female) new sea otters arrived from Alaska in October and are now living with the 2 original sea otters. Apparently their introduction to...
A polar bear young has just been born (following the young in Aalborg a few days ago) to the female that had been less-than-happy with her earlier...
There has not been a human fatality or life-threatening injury caused by a primate in a Danish zoo. However, especially chimps certainly have the...
1. (profile photo) Pere David's rock squirrel. 2. (head-on photo) Same angle problem as described in post #19, but this is either a Perny's...
They never left London and died of old age not long after the much-published request for more individuals. London had received them as young from...
I'll just add three new species of archerfish described by Kottelat and Tan. The new are: Toxoter mekongensis, Toxoter siamensis and Toxoter...
Just a small update: As some may know (and already described in ZSL London Zoo Anyone got a female Mangaraharan cichlid?) the search was a success...
Based on the area tool for google maps, which may or may not be entirely accurate, it is c. 1600 m² (0.4 acres). Using the wording from my earlier...
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