Yeah, I just saw this on La Menagerie's Facebook page!! It's great news. I wasn't sure what to expect on my initial visit, but the staff really does a bang up job given their limitations.
There have been recent observations of tool use by Visayan warty pigs at Jardin des Plantes, the first time tool use has been recorded in any pig. Priscilla, the adult female warty pig, has been observed using pieces of bark and sticks to dig nest pits in the ground. The behaviour has been picked up, with varying degrees of success, by two other pigs in the enclosure. Here is an article about the discovery: These rare pigs can dig it. With a tool, that is. And moonwalk too The abstract for the research is included below: Context-specific tool use by Sus cebifrons - ScienceDirect
It seems that the info was missed on Zoochat : Last year a Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo was born to female Kau Kau. The baby is a girl.
Nope, I thought as the offspring had been born last year everyone on here would know! Actually, I am really surprised it has not yet created a racket or ruck and ensuing mayhem here. (maybe the nerds and freaks have an off-day ...?)
The light didn't help with taking photos but I have a few pictures of the baby. I'll upload them soon
A baby clouded leopard was born on March 1st. Here it is along with a video from the menagerie's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=245409623192110 A flamingo also hatched at the end of May. Along with the other births, on April 24th twin Golden Lion Tamarins were born to parents Miska and Flash. They are the first offspring of the pair. La Ménagerie, le zoo du jardin des Plantes
Due to the covid-19 crisis the transfer of the tasmanian devils is delayed to 2021. Until they arrive, the zoo put in the enclosure a kirk dik-dil family of 4 members : a male, two females and a young born early this year. Des petits nouveaux à la Ménagerie
Some recent births in the Menagerie : - A binturong last June 12th - Three transcapian urials during covid-19 closure - A lion-tailed macaque last June 14th - A Goeldi's marmoset June 17th - Two Azara's aguti July 1st Vérification de sécurité nécessaire
@Onychorhynchus coronatus the answer is in the devils thread : Tasmanian Devil Ambassador Program in Europe
Arrival of : - three dusky pademelons from Chester, - european ground squirrels (new species for the zoo).
Arrival of red-crowned amazons (new species for the park) and a female eastern grey kangaroo from Antwerpen.
