As confirmed by @Jana in Zoo Jihlava thread, what I´ve hinted last week has now become true as second babirusa was born in Jihlava Mother is 4 year old Ndari, born in South Lakes Zoo, fingers crossed that third time will be really the charm for her as her previous two births were unsuccessfull.
Ufortunately, the second piglet in Jihlava died... Zoo is now waiting for autopsy results, whether they manage to find cause of the death.
Stuttgart and Jihlava will switch males in the coming weeks. Also Jihlava's female Ndari is pregnant, due in December.
Not sure if anyone knows this, but Opel zoo (which coordinate the European breeding programme) now have 1.1 Sulawesi babirusas.
17 yo female in Jihlava had to be put to sleep (health issues) Also, I heard some murmurs about Berlin importing animal from US does anyone have more info on it?
Wuppertal just had a Babirusa birth. According to Zootierliste TP Berlin has received 0.2 Babirusa, does anyone know from where?
A past thread I think it's good to put again on the rails... Was on sunday in Cerza and was lucky to see two wonderful pigglets. From their size they were born just a few weeks ago. So now the group is 1.2.3 (there was a young with the other female wich I assume was a male born last year).
Some more details : the pigglets were born May 13th to mother Sula. Father is Tomini. https://www.ouest-france.fr/normand...-lisieux-0edbad8e-20ce-11ee-99d3-d8f473980443
1.1 arrived at ZSL London Zoo back in 2020 from Chester Zoo but sadly the male, budi, passed away last month due to health reasons. 2.0 arrived at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo either sometime in December last year or earlier this year (also from Chester). They are now on show in the former Sloth Bear exhibit along with Francois Langur
On 18 September, she gave birth to a female. She was named Ambari. For father Cinta, mother Diah as well as Tierpark Berlin, this is the first young. The group at Tierpark Berlin now consists of six animals. Source: Facebook Tierpark Berlin
Anyone have an updated list of holders, then? Seems to have increased fairly well from the lowpoint of 5 holders a few years ago.
According to Zootierliste, there are currently 12 holders for babirusa in Europe: Zoo Antwerpen, Belgium Zoo Jihlava, Czech Republic Zoo de CERZA, France Tierpark Berlin, Germany Zoo Berlin, Germany Opel-Zoo Kronberg, Germany Tiergarten Nürnberg, Germany Wilhelma Stuttgart, Germany Zoo Wuppertal, Germany Chester Zoo, United Kingdom ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, United Kingdom London Zoo, United Kingdom
And a new one is coming as Cologne will receive soon 2 years old male Copa from Cerza in France. Log in to Facebook | Facebook
In Stuttgart a male is born end 2023. Mother is Ndari, father Kendari. The boy has the name Nantu. (Instagram)
