ZOO Dvůr Králové Dvůr Králové

Triplet born with the Caracals .

 

1.0 Common Hippo has arrived from Karlsruhe

 

He´s not there yet. He will arrive on Friday.

 

1.1 Arabian Striped Hyena have arrived - from Beekse Bergen and Twycross respectively

Do ZOO Dvůr Králové se po 30 letech vrací hyeny žíhané : Zoo Dvůr Králové

 

1.0 Fossa has arrived from Leipzig. The first at Dvur for 7 years. A female should arrive in the Autumn
Do ZOO Dvůr Králové se vrátila fosa : Zoo Dvůr Králové

 

Unfortunately - the male Common Hippo has since died after being attacked by an adult female

 

A replacement male Common Hippo will be coming from Stuttgart in the near future

Wilhelma in Stuttgart: Letztes Flusspferd verlässt die Wilhelma

 

2.10. was born a baby black rhino. It´s a female and it is a total of 45th black rhino born in the zoo. Mother for the second time is Etosha. Her first baby Eliška currently lives in Tanzania.

 

The rhino baby girl's dad is Mweru. The little one, 34kg, is doing fine, she started drinking short after birth.

 

In November DK Zoo should receive a female okapi from Antwerpen.

 

That´s perfect news! I was already nervous, that Dvur will never get breeding recomendation for okapi again.

 

Okapi female Qira has arrived from Antwerpen yesterday.

 

Part of Bird House will be rebuilt this year and will be converted into Madagascar, not only for birds but also for some reptiles and fossas.

 

Arek, do you know what the long-term plan for Orangs is? Presumably they want to go out of the species.

EDIT: for anyone wondering at this apparent non-sequitur, the Orang enclosure is either part of, or adjoining to, the Bird House.

 

Orangs are to remain in Dvur Kralove but I don't know how long.

 

the target of safaripark is to replace all non-African species for African. But there are two "long term" exceptions - Orangs and false gharials. I think, that Orangs could be replaced by Bonobos in the far future.

 

And the third exception is persian leopard.

 

But at least that one functions as a stand-in for African leopard. The other two not so much.

 

Yes correct. Leopard is leopard.

 

Visiting Dvur Kralove Zoo next month ( I hope, if I manege to get there because the public transport service to the zoo is insufficient).

Will probably not have time to do both the bus safari and truck safari.
Do both ways cover the same parts of the safari park?
Between the two, which one is recommended the most?
Which one is better for photography?