Recently 5 capybaras were born, 4 females and 1 male. Source: Instagram of Zoo Krefeld (05/07/2022) Login • Instagram
A nice breeding success: For the first time since 2014, the northern carmine bee-eaters (Merops nubicus) have succesfully bred and seven young can be seen in the bird house, one of which has been raised by the keepers. Source: Facebook
On June 29th, a male Southern tamandua (named Tomsk) moved to Krefeld from Colchester Zoo, to form a breeding pair with the female already present (named Zora). Information comes from the Colchester Zoo Facebook page.
Recently the young were sexed, they are 4 females and 3 males. Source: Instagram of Zoo Krefeld (29/09/2022)
Recently female Greenland musk ox (Ovibos moschatus wardi) Klara (*13.05.2021) arrived from Kölner Zoo. Source: Instagram of Zoo Krefeld (15/11/2022)
The Great white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) have laid 4 eggs wich are getting incubated in an incubator. The zoo has also started with the enlargement of the gorilla enclosure! Sources: Instagram of Zoo Krefeld (12/12/2022) Instagram of Zoo Krefeld (07/12/2022)
I never realised how close the park was to the Grotenburg Stadion. Has anybody been to the zoo whilst a match was on? Knowing what German football fans are like I imagine it’s quite noisy?
On the 6th of November 2022 3 Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) were born, sadly one was stillborn. Currently the young are behind the scenes and are expected to be visible for the public at the start of spring. Source: Instagram of Zoo Krefeld (19/01/2023)
Last year October a female Hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) was born, a zoo first for Krefeld, in a few weeks she will move to Zoo Wuppertal. Source: Instagram of Zoo Krefeld (02/02/2023)
On the 7th of February a Linnaeus' two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) was born. This is the 16th young for female Trine and the 21th for male Jan. Source: Instagram of Zoo Krefeld (18/02/2023)
Very sad news from Zoo Krefeld, on the 11th of March the newborn sloth was found dead and a week later the Tamandua was also found dead. The tamandua suffered was weak and had a blunt trauma, possibly the young was too weak and fell. Sources: Instagram of Zoo Krefeld (14/03/2023) Instagram of Zoo Krefeld (22/03/2023)
Recently Frankfurt, Krefeld and Rostock exchanged Goodfellow's Tree-kangaroos (Dendrolagus goodfellowi buergersi) to form 3 new couples. Source: Instagram of Zoo Krefeld (02/04/2023)
On the 6th of April atleast 1 Indian crested porcupine (Hystrix indica) was born. Recently 2 male Bactrian camels were born. Sources: Instagram of Zoo Krefeld (14/04/2023) Instagram of Zoo Krefeld (14/04/2023)
Arrival of a new species : the Yellow-billed Pintail. A group is now housed in the Penguin Pool. Zoofreunde Krefeld e. V. on Instagram: " Neulinge im PinguinPool. Im #zookrefeld sind Spitzschwanzenten eingezogen. Spitzschwanzenten sind in fast ganz Südamerika zu finden, sogar auf den #falklands. Ihr werden drei Unterarten zugerechnet, von der eine Unterart als mittlerweile ausgestorben gilt. Außerhalb der Fortpflanzungszeit versammelt sich diese Entenart gelegentlich zu großen Schwärmen. Sie ist dann auch in Gemeinschaft mit anderen Wasservögeln zu finden. Willkommen in #krefeld ihr kleinen Flattermänner. ♥️ Foto: @vera_gorissen #zoofreundekrefeld #zoosofinstagram #entekeralam #ornithologie #nachbarn #neueingezogen #ente #enten"
We visited on May 31st, and had a really good time here. While on holiday in Belgium, I made a list of a few zoo's in Germany that were doable for us (as my parents aren't that far from the border), but due to circomstance had to drop a few anyway that were on the list, and our choise then fell on Krefeld. (and there was a Kaufland nearby too, which I really wanted to go to, lol). Confusing when paying, via the website you can choose to pay an extra Euro for donation or not, when paying at the tills there wasn't an option. Even though it says 15€ on the sign, they charged us 16€, and when I questioned it, she said "no 16 Euro, and you can put the coin in the thing near the camels". So they forced us to pay the extra Euro. It's just a Euro, but I'm just saying. I think the only animals we didn't see were the otters. However, should there still be a bat-eared fox? It showed on the map, but we didn't see anything at all where they should have been. Maybe we just completely missed the sign for them (with/near the otters?). And then the tree kangaroo and pigmy hippo. At the snow leopards it showed that there were cubs (though, almost a year old now if I remember correctly), but we only ever saw 2 most of the day, so we had no idea if there actually were cubs or not. Only at the end of our visit when we went to the enclosure for a last time, a woman started talking to us, clearly knowing them very well, explaining who was who, and turns out we've been looking at the cubs all day, hehe. The tiger cubs came out for a play late afternoon, they were so adorable together. Constantly playing with each other. We saw all the other babies. 3-4 week old meerkats, the little porcupine, and the little camels. Kevin the penguin was very recognizeable. While all the others were on the rock in the water, Kevin was hopping around the people. Even though there's signs that say don't come to close his beak is very sharp, people off course tried to pet him and touch him constantly ... We had a great view off the mountain anoa, sadly all the pictures aren't great due to the sun/light, but at least we got a good view. One of the white faced saki's was super curious. My boyfriend went up the stairs and the saki was sitting on the rail right in front of him. He was constantly touching his camera and looking right into it, which made for a very funny video he managed to take. The tamandua was asleep in his barrel, and when we went back a few hours later to check him again, he'd moved inside the barrel, with his nose sticking out, so we kind of got to see it's face.
