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  1. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Former enclosure of the elephant shrew and squirrel.
     
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    Ok today there are squirels and elephant shrews back in the exhibit.
     
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    Glad to hear that :p given the fact the squirrels and elephant shrews are both lifeticks and I am visiting Cologne soon!
     
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    What is the species of squirrel?
     
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    Red-legged Sun Squirrel (Heliosciurus rufobrachium)
     
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    Ah, nice, thanks :) Hope they're still there for my upcoming visit, although a Hausa Genet would be lovely too :)
     
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    How annoying that I missed them, but at least I saw the genets whilst they were onshow :)
     
  8. lintworm

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    Unfortunately the last Honey badger has died at the age of 20, it had been sick for a longer period already. Their enclosure stands empty now (and just might be incorporated in the coming renovation of the Tiger enclosure)....
     
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    What a shame. I didn’t see the honey badger at all on my visit despite a number of trips past the enclosure. This was one of the animals I had been the most excited for, too.
     
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    At the end of January 4 Red river hogs ( 3 males, 1 female ) were born at Cologne - a first-breeding for the zoo !
     
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    Looks like a couple of belted Lemur have been born, with some cute photos on their facebook
     
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    Recently a Greater bamboo lemur was born.

    Cologne received the three remaining Brahminy kites from Zoo Berlin, Bonobo "Limbuku" went the other way as this male wasn't able to integrate in the Cologne group.
     
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    Middle April a male Eastern ring-tailed vontsirawas born, This is the second one born at Cologne :).
     
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    By the end of the summer the Tiger enclosure will be renovated. The Red panda will also get a new enclosure nearby.

    More importantly they will finally start with renovating the S-America house in November. The house will be a walkthrough, with several adjacent enclosures. Monkeys, armadillos, sloths, birds and Geoffrey's cats will be among the inhabitants. Additionally a Jaguar enclosure will be build (three enclosures of 550+350+270 square meter that can be connected) and there are also plans for a walkthrough aviary for King vultures and Peccary. Finally the nearby Directors house will be renovated as well. All this will cost about 21 million euros and will be finished in 2020.

    Unfortunately the last Goitered gazelles will be sent to Karlsruhe after continuous deaths... What will be kept next in their enclosure is still unknown...

    Source: Zoofreunde forum.
     
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    Does Cologne still keep Bactrian deer? They seem to have been removed from the park map along with the gazelles.

    (I'm visiting in two weeks, and I don't want to be late for any more animals now that the gazelles, honey badger and tree kangaroo are gone)
     
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    I haven't heard anything of them leaving and would be surprised if they would get out pf the species. The Tree kangaroo should also still be around and the Gazelle might not be gone yet
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    Oh, great to hear.

    As for the tree kangaroo - I thought they only had one female left, and this Zoofreunde post claims one female Matschie's tree kangaroo died (and that Goodfellow's tree kangaroos will be the replacement?). Granted, my German skills are not exactly perfect...

    Kleiner Nachtrag:

    - der Gehegetausch von Onagern und Zebras ist für dieses Jahr vorgesehen
    - die zwei Jungtiere der Kropfgazellen im vergangenen Jahr verstarben leider, die Haltung wird aufgegeben (Abgabe der Tiere nach Karlsruhe), der Neubesatz für das Gehege steht noch nicht fest
    - ein weibliches Matschie-Baumkänguru starb im Alter von 20 Jahren, man wird mittelfristig auf Goodfellow-Baumkängurus umsteigen müssen
    - aktuell befinden sich hinter den Kulissen zwei Salzkatzen, sie werden in das umgebaute Südamerikahaus inkl. Außengehege umziehen
    - die Stachelschweine wurden an Magdeburg abgegeben, da man den Platz für Vögel benötigt - die Haltung wurde somit beendet
     
  18. lintworm

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    That is the second animal that died last year and the reason why there is only one left. This post mentions they will have to switch to Goodfellow in the medium-long term (aka when the last individual dies).
     
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    Okay, then I must have misremembered. Thanks for the clarification.
     
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    They have planned on switching over some time ago. The remaining individuals are / were all in the 18-20 range of age. The youngest individual was sent to the US already some years prior to this. Now only 0.1 old left.