They have two groups: - Group I at Gondwanaland: 0,1 OKA (born at Ostrava Zoo in 1983) and her two daughters KABALA (born at Leipzig in 2005) and TUNA (born at Leipzig in 2009) - Group II at the quarantine section: 1,0 JACK (born at Gettorf 2005), MONFIFA (born at Leipzig in 2006, daughter of RHABO and OKA) and their offspring from 2012 (1,0) and 2013 (0,0,1)
Four visits over the last few years and I still haven't seen the darn Baikal seal. Missed it again a few days ago. The Jackass penguins they keep there instead fail to excite me. I have finally reached the conclusion that the claim of Baikal seal at Leipzig must be a joke made up to annoy me Seriously though, I have heard of other visitors that have missed it too (also several that have seen it, of course). Sure I may have had bad luck, but it shows that this seal must be locked away for quite some days during the year. Does anyone know why? Not a particularly big pool, but it is a small seal and I find it hard to believe that the off-show facilities should be much bigger - in all probability they're quite a bit smaller. Done to reduce stress perhaps? More space for the Jackass penguins? Anyhow I've given up on the seal at Leipzig and come to the conclusion that a trip to Russia is my only chance of ever seeing this species
New species: - 2,2 Asian blue quails - 2,2 Sierra Leone green pigeons - Blue-crowned laughingthrushs The new bird breeding- and quarantine station with 30 aviaries was opened in July.
The first Pygmy slow loris at the zoo was born last weekend. Zoo Leipzig: Plumplori geboren - Nachwuchs von Mercedes & Benz heißt Smart
Western chimpanzee female PIA (born 1999 to ROBERT and FRAUKJE) was shipped to Twycross Zoo. Four females from AAP Stichting (DAZA, FREDERIKE, BRIGITTE, JEUDI) were successfully integrated to the smaller non breeding chimpanzee group at Pongoland. Seven Asian blue quails hatched, a Myanmar thamin and a Vietnamese small flying fox were born.
Twycross want another Chimpanzee? Is this perhaps because this is a Western Chimp and they want to concentrate on that sub-species in the future, as Edinburgh have done? I can't see any other reason?
that was my reaction too! I know they have started joining their chimps up into bigger groups now, but it still seems they can't keep the ones they already have properly let alone getting more in!
A scientist from the Max Planck Institution told me, PIA was shipped to Twycross, maybe he was wrong and she left to another zoo in Great Britain.
I knew I'd heard that name before! She went to DUBLIN in November 2012 (confirmed in Winter 2012 edition of there members magazine) Don't know where Twycross came from?? But mystery solved But here's the link to the article in question to prove it Zoo Matters Winter 2012
Gradually by natural attrition from the occassional death of the older ones, their chimp numbers are slowly reducing, but at the last count they still had something like 25, split into about 4 groupings now.
