Rotterdam Zoo Blijdorp News 2018

First day on the outdoor-enclosure :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10155269521156452

 

Francois langur born :

 

2 Swamp wallaby-joeys have started to show their heads outside of their mothers pouches .

 

2 male Banteng-calfs born at Rotterdam :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10155384840550222

 

Guereza born ( the group now contains 9 animals ) :

SPIERWIT FRANJE-AAPJE GEBOREN - Diergaarde Blijdorp

 

Some notes, news and observations from my visit yesterday ( April 21 2018 ) :
- Gelada-enclosure looked almost finished but the animals were still not in it ( see photo : Gelada-enclosure - still not in use | ZooChat )
- Part of the Oceanium closed due to construction-work for the Conservation-area they are building ( so no rock squirrels, colorado toads, kit fox-indoors, burrowing owls and so on - see photo : Construction-site Oceanium | ZooChat )
- White-naped mangabeys moved from their "ugly" enclosure next to the Gorillas to the enclosure which formely was home to the Guerezas ( see photo : Enclosure White-naped mangabey | ZooChat )
- The Guerezas moved from their old enclosure to the former Putty-nosed monkey-enclosure next to the Gorilla -island.
- One of the male-gorillas ( forgot to note its name ) was seperated from the group and housed in the former "ugly" mangabey-enclosure. Reason : he became adult and will be send to another zoo to become the breeding-male there ( don't know which zoo )
- The enclosure for the Eurasian otters housed a pair of Golden eyes but I didn't see the otters ( death, moved to another zoo, behind the scenes ? )
- Saw some of the latest breeding-results :
Guereza ( see Guereza-baby | ZooChat )
Black rhinoceros ( see Black rhino-calf | ZooChat )

 

Baby Francois langur starts to explore the enclosure :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10155445694155222

 

That is Nasibu, he will probably go to New Zealand next year.

 

Not a probable, more a definite. It only depends on when the receiving zoo will be able to move the bachelor group they currently hold to another exhibit within their zoo.

 

Prime-minister Marc Rutte of the Netherlands brought 4 Lesser Antillean iguanas with him after visiting Sint Maarten. They will find a new home at Rotterdam Zoo which already has a male of this species.

Article ( in Dutch ) :

Premier Rutte neemt vier leguanen mee uit Caribisch Nederland

and in English :

Antillean iguanas leave Dutch government meetings up in the air - DutchNews.nl

 

This move has been in the planning stages for a good year or so. Really chuffed it has finally happened. Very important for the conservation breeding program in Europe and a highly threatened taxon at that.

BTW: Quite shocked no airline seemed to be prepared to take this smallish live cargo aboard …. Now it is a form of bad bad airline PR!!!

 

Female Giraffe-calf born to female Cristel .

 

a new secretarybird female was added to the male on the 'gierenrots'. There's now one breedingpair in Blijdorp!

 

Blijdorp will exchange 3 Black & rufous sengi with Bronx and Philadelphia, which is necessary "fresh" blood as all 16 B&R sengi in Europe are descended from 2 animals....

 

0.0.3 Asian Lions were born in late August.

A family group of 9 Gelada are now onshow. They came from NaturZoo Rhiene

 

Wondering: Does anyone know anything about the 4 Birds-of-paradise that were given to Rotterdam Zoo in 2016 by San Diego Zoo?

 

2.1 are still alive: the other female died in 2017.

 

sad! Any way of seeing them or how did you learn about the death of one of them?

 

The Slender loris, born last month, starts to explore its enclosure :



2 Fishing cats have been born .

 

Not mentioned before on this site : Rotterdam succeeded for the first time to raise Asian woolly-necked storks earlier this year, 1 with the parents and 2 have been hand-raised :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1020493211455224