From Zoo Halle African elephant female Bibi was moved to Hodenhagen where she will be placed in the herd of 2 males and 3 females.
And even more exiting for them, Bibi is pregnant, the calf being sired by Halle's breeding bull, Abu.
I do hope the management and husbandry team at SP Serengeti in Hodenhagen will have hands on contact from the start in order to prevent any of the previous birthing episodes that ended tragically for both mother and calf.
I agree with you totally! Given the fact that she has successfully raised two calves before, I have full confidence in her mothering abilities, its just that first half hour or so after birth that she will likely need intensive management (four legs chained, staff in the birthing stall, etc...)
One of the rhinos flipped a car containing a zookeeper. Amazingly the keeper got out with only a few bruises:Angry rhino flips car at German safari park | DW | 28.08.2019
BioRescue's most successful oocyte collection and embryo creation in Southern white rhinoceros: On May 26, 2020, the team extracted oocytes from the southern white rhino female "Makena" in Serengeti Park in Hodenhagen, Germany, and then fertilized them in the Avantea laboratory in Italy to create four viable embryos. This was the team's most successful procedure of its kind and nourishes the hope that advanced assisted reproduction technologies (aART) are well established to ensure the survival of the northern white rhino in the near future. Read the full article here: BioRescue's most successful oocyte collection and embryo creation in southern white rhinos
This male is now destined to go to Dvur Kralove instead. Personally, I think the male Kusini (ex San Diego) is a no-hoper. Just trace his history back to Berlin Tierpark and you might be shocked how maladjusted this male really is for a herd living rhino species.
Now that Amur Tiger 'NIKOLAI' (aka HUMA from Lisbon) has moved to Bavaria, does Hodenhagen have plans to bring in a companion for his sister. I assume they renamed her as well?
A few days after Southern rhino cow Uzuri also female Claudia gave birth to a calf. Both calves are females and represent calf number 49 and 50 born at Hodenhagen !
On the 30th of April a male Southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum), he was given the name Kai and his mother is Kianga. I persume that this is the 51th calf to be born at Hodenhagen, right? Source: Instagram of Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen (04/05/2021) https://www.instagram.com/p/COcmjQxCPLG/
Not exactly sure when, but 4 males and 1 female capybara were born aswell as a male Common waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus ellipsiprymnus) Sources: Instagram of Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen (07/06/2021) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP0JjjvCYDf/ Instagram of Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen (06/06/2021) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPxk7O0CHAt/
