Burgers' Zoo Burgers' Zoo 2019

In their new enclosure in the Bush the Asian leaf turtles ( Cyclemys dentata ) have already bred : sofar 2 young have been found and are now raised behind the scenes :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=928633054179517

 

They are not Keeled box turtles, Burgers' Zoo doesn't use the correct Dutch name. These are Asian leaf turtle (Cyclemys dentata), which is how they are listed by the zoo themself.

 

Oke, thank you for the correction lintworm ! have already changed it ).

 

Burgers recieved a young male Spotted eagle-ray from Wroclaw Zoo and its planned he will become the new breeding-male at Arnhem.
The old breeding-male ( father of 39 young in the Ocean ) went together with his son to Den Bla Planet to be placed in the Eagle ray group already kept there.

 

The Scalloped hammerhead shark has unfortunately passed away.

 

4 Capybara were born, 1 was however stillborn.

The sex of the 3rd sun bear cub has also been confirmed as male, just like the other two.

 

Some notes from a visit yesterday:

- The Hanging parrots seem to have been removed from the Bush, as their signage was removed.

- Tw young Lion fish were introduced in the Lion fish tank, the Porcupine fish and the Epaulette shark have been moved to the first Lagune tank

- The Coral tank in the night section, is not a nocturnal tank anymore, as too many people ignored the tank, it is now lit during the day.

- A Gibbon was free-ranging in the Bush for a few hours, fortunately it was of the "Funky" type and could safely be removed after feeding it a beer.

 

Funnily enough I received an image of said beer in The Bush...

 

You know what they say: A beer in the hand is worth two in the Bush.

 

A 1.5 year old Sri Lanka leopard was placed on transport to the France zoo of Cerza :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=745081292672258

 

Burgers has recieved a bull Banteng from Munich - Germany and althrough he is already 8 years old he has the looks of a Banteng-cow.
This because he wasn't allowed anymore to breed at Munich and therefor was given hormones - it was feared that he would breed with some of his 4 daughters with which he lived together at Munich.
At Burgers he won't recieve any hormones anymore so if time goes by he will get the male-look and has planned to become the new breeding-bull at Burgers.

 

Would not a simple separation and/or transfer have worked better?

 

I guess so but if the zoo doesn't have the place to seperate the animal long-therm, this could also a ( not-optimal ) solution.

 

According to a visitor and some guides, Burgers' Zoo has added the petenia spendida to the manatee lake!

 

I think @lintworm and I saw these the week before last

 

That is likely! As they are pretty sneaky sometimes with adding things. And right now they were still pretty small

 

Could be, but I cannot say I can remember them specifically

 

Short clip about the release of this species. Only males were released in the big Manatee-pool because they should keep the populations of some other species under control but should themself not become the dominant species so breeding is not wished :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=965471407120172

 

In an article about the annual Indonesian market in the Bush it was mentioned that in autumn 2020 they will start renovating the Bush restaurant. If I remember an interview with thw current director correctly, such a renovation would coincide with an overhaul of the bush (focusing on e.g. infrastructure). So this is likely the next larger investment. The Bush is now 31 years old and basically unchanged since the opening ( except for the roof cushions that were replaced 10 years ago).