Some better news from Frankfurt : a Lesser Malayan chevrotain born a Kikuyu colobus born 6 Gundis born from 2 different females ( 3 young each )
Lesser Hedgehog tenrec Short Eared Elephant shrew Green Acouchi Emperor Tamarin Luzon cloud-rat Prehensile-tailed porcupine Grey-handed owl-monkey Moholi Bushbaby Slender loris Kowari Australian water rat Aye Aye Grey mouse lemur Fat-tailed mouse lemur Eastern quoll Seurat's spiny mouse Golden Spiny mouse Gundi Southern Tamandua Asian Garden dormouse African dormouse Feather-tail glider Aardvark Springhaare Big hairy armadillo White-faced saki Cape ground squirrel Blue-capped cordon-bleu Sociable weaver Northern tree shrew I might have missed a couple of species, but that is what I can remember...
I miss: Short beaked echidna Two-toed sloth and for the day section Small-clawed otter Dwarf mongoose Golden lion tamarin Komodo dragon Rock hyrax Lesser kantjil Roulroul and there is probably still more.
Reticulated Giraffe, Jengo has flown out from Frankfurt to Ramat Gan in Israel this week Advertisement
Male Hippo"Maikel"died yesterday-he swallow a Tennisball.He has lived at the zoo since 1977 and was very popular. Sad Story-the only Thing the zoo can do now is to send the female"Petra"to another zoo, and stop keeping hippos in the current exhibit.
Ditto! And I would help you...I knew Maikel since I was a child...Now I agree with the perfect idea to let walk zoovisitors through a zoo through Acryl tubes as like as in the aquariums...would be perfect for animals, and the zoogrounds keeps clean...At the closing time, the the visitors will be flushed out of the tubes by water... So Maikels Death means the end of Hippos at Frankfurt for many years.
A sad and odious death. I wish one could have the dumb visitor(s) that provided the tools taken to task. But that is unlikely to happen ... I hope and would suggest Kronberger Opel Zoo as the best location.
Kronberg has no space for a third hippo,( and teh hippo exhibit there is a Desaster) and "Petra"is the mother of"Max". And waiting until"Tana"has passed away isn't a good Option-she's doing well for her Age of 54 years and could live a few more years.Hannover and Cologne could take Petra, they have space enough for one more hippo, and both places are not interested in breeding them. I ask me, whatfor people bring Tennis balls in a zoo....maybe bag controls like some places in the usa could be also an Option for european Zoos.Or Airport Scanners...
I meant this as Kronberg was meant / planning to upgrade / renovate their hippo exhibit. The fact quite a number of zoos do not breed is a wee bit up an iffy alley … (as the species as a whole is now threatened / endangered).
This is, of course, very sad; a horrible incident. It is by no means unique; a hippopotamus died at London Zoo in 1952 after a tennis ball was thrown into its mouth.
I believe one of Dublin's Hippos died after a similar incident too. Possibly it was the mother of Whipsnade 'Hoover'.
Indeed Dublin Zoo's female hippo also died in 2002 after swallowing a tennis ball; she was the mother of Whipsnade's male hippo "Hoover".
Unfortuantely this happend several times in Germany. Two male hippos , father and son,died at Kronberg after swallowed a tennisball and beer can, at Stuttgart a male died on a Tennisball, also at Hannover a few years ago.Some strange Kind of a german Hobby...