News: Two Sri Lankan leopard cubs have been born in the night of 31 December 2017 and January 1 2018. It happened between 0.30AM and 3AM.
They are assuming one of the two babies is doing not so well. They took down the livestream because of this!
Well, a sad loss for the zoo ..., but here is hoping her second cub will have a greater chance to be reared successfully.
It’s very sad indeed. I do think it’s a little better to keep new births low profile for this reason.
Not Not to long ago i wrote the zoo a critical letter and they agreed and said that some aspects are part of their masterplan. One of those things was they should stop keeping the pygmy hippos. I am glad that they did and it is kind of funny.
What was the exact letter they returned? I am curious now in what they said and what their big masterplan is
Well i may not call it letter since it was over facebook. I can't really say which direction their masterplan goes. But they said that they had the same view on to some things. So therefor I can only quote what I said, which may be concluded in their masterplan or maybe not. I made two masterplans on my own, a bigger and a little one, of which the last is what the zoo has to change (in my opinion) and the second is more about a whole masterplan. For sure I "showed" them the little one. I started whit the good things and then came over to the Parts, which lack of space or design. Exhibits that to small Aardvark Warthog ( and i said that i would move them to Safari) Not compatible (mentioned by the zoo themself) Siamang - Macaque Gibbon - Langur Bear - Binturong Design Lion and chetah (savannah makeover) Bush makeover And in general more zones. They changed the masterplan over time
The German IZW team visited Burgers Zoo on Friday to test the fertility of both female sun bears. The current male is infertile , so if at least one of the two females (aged 17 and 18) is found to be still fertile, the male will move to Munster and one of the males from Edinburgh will move to Burgers Zoo. This could be the starting sign for more transfers (for now) within Europe. Duitse specialisten onderzoeken vruchtbaarheid beren
When i was reading zootierliste I read that they used to have hippos (not pygmy). Anyone knows more on that? Where did they have their enclosure?
They kept them in what is now the ringed seal enclosure. The stopped with the hippos about 30 years ago and then kept common seal there, which were swapped in 2005 for ringed seals.
Sadly there is no underwater view. Ah thanks! Seeing ZooTierListe shows me so many awesome creatures they used to have. These days there's no space for big new things sadly so would not expect them to bring them back. But Thanks for the info, learned something new!
I agree. Just have to stand at the edge of the water and wait for a little heart shaped nose to pop up!
Back in the days that area was full of big mammals. Where the bongo are now used to be for giraffes, coati replaced tigers, meerkats replaced elephants, warthogs replaced white rhino. And where the lemurs are now they kept 3 great ape species at one point...
I indeed do remember the tigers and the great apes. I knew about the meerkat-elephant thing but giraffes and rhinos are new! Thanks! Wasn't it also that before the tigers (In the current coati enclosure) were polar bears?
