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Discussion in 'Germany' started by BjoernN, 6 Jan 2012.

  1. BjoernN

    BjoernN Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    A male Nile lechwe arrived from Prague Zoo...
     
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    Orangutan's, Kila and Maia moved to Basel yesterday (4/9)
     
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    An adult female Sumatran-Orang-Utan and her two year old child (Jambi and her daughter or Menggala and her son) are going to come to Pongoland from Budapest Zoo in october.
     
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    Four Eastern quoll females gave birth to an still unknown number of young one about 80 days ago.
     
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    Quolls can give birth to quite a few young at a time. I think about 5 or 6 is the maximum so imagine if each of the females had this many. That's up to 20 new quolls for Europe.
     
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    Potentially excellent news for dasyurid expansion into Europe!
     
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    8 Nicaraguan slider (Trachemys emolli) hatched - the first hatching in europe - and a Prehensile-tailed skink (Corucia zebrata) was born.
     
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    16 year old female Sumtran Orang-Utan "Menggala" and her two years old son "Vilmos" arrived from Budapest Zoo in Hungary.
     
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    A second DikDik was born at Gondwanaland.
     
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    Gorilla female "Zola" (*2008 at Leipzig, "Gorgo" x "Viringika") was shipped to Rostock Zoo. New gorilla male "Abeeku" did not accept her. "Zola" is going to built a temporary group with her father "Gorgo" und her "aunt" "Bebe" at Rostock.
     
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    Do you/anybody know when the Amur Leopard swap is going to take place? Maybe Colchester's female 'Milena' could be a potential candidate as she has not bred yet and Leipzig's male has successfully bred before.
     
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    I have not further information concerning the swap, but I presume, the swap will take place 2014, when the new enclosure is finishes.
     
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    I have heard of this happening before somewhere with a very young female and an incoming/new male. I think it may mirror a situation in the wild where if a new male takes over a group, as well as attacking infants of the previous leader, he also tries to drive out any young juveniles still dependant on their mothers.
     
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    Two further females, a mother with her 10 year old daughter, is going to arrive at Leipzig in the future.
     
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    Are you talking Gorillas or Leopards here?:)
     
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    Sorry, Pertinax, I am talking about Gorillas...
     
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    Yellow-headed day geckos hatched and the first Southern three-banded armadillo was born.
     
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    More interesting for me than Leopards...;) do you know wherabouts they might come from?
     
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    No I don't.
     
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    Giant Otter female "Madija" gave birth to 5 pups. It is her second litter.
     
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