Great that they are back in Europe .Saw some at Brookfield zoo before really cute and a great attraction for a zoo
@drill Black-Footed cats are the biggest attraktion in every zoo-most people ask at the entrance"Where are the Black-Footed cats"? Serioulsley, small cats are not a big seller, especially nocturnal ones. By they way, they haven't arrived yet at Magdeburg, and there will be more of them in other european zoos, because there is coming a big import of Black-footed cats to europe.
Does that mean Chester have gone out of the species now? EDIT - Just read the Chester thread and yeah, they've gone.
As far as I know, the black-footed cats aren't at Magdeburg yet and I have had the confirmation from one of the keepers there that they won't be there (or if they do arrive, they won't be on-show) in August.
Twin ( 1.1 ) Amur tigers born but the male cub has died. The female is hand-raised now : Magdeburger Tigerbaby wird handzahm
These are now visible in their new enclosure (and it seems there has been a birth in the meantime). Other new species at the zoo include marsh mongoose (1.1 came from ZieZoo), Siberian eagle owl (replaced their European counterpart), olive pigeon and crowned lapwing (both from Cologne). Magdeburg will probably also receive 4 young African elephant bulls (1 from Berlin & 3 from Wuppertal) , the 2 elderly females (one African and one Asian) will stay in the zoo and will share their enclosure with these young bulls.
oh! Actually I even did know uhu was eagle owl, but I was thrown by the Siberian in front of it (I was thinking crane, ibex...)
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Magdeburg seems to acquire new species quite frequently. Do most of those species replace existing species (such as with the eagle owls), or is the collection simply growing a lot?
A bit of both, but is seems mostly to be collection growth, as they recently opened the new elephant enclosure on an extension of the zoo there have been some new species coming in and other species moving to another part of the zoo, making space for animals like the marsh mongoose . The pigeon and lapwing are in a newly opened aviary on the extension, just as the kudu.
First-breeding for Magdeburg : Gabon talapoin : GEBURT bei den ZWERGMEERKATZEN - ZOONEWS aus MAGDEBURG Zooerstzuchten sind ganz besondere Ereignisse. So freuen sich der Magdeburger Zoo und seine Fangemeinde über die erstmalige Geburt bei den Nördlichen- oder Gabun-Zwergmeerkatzen (Miopithecus ogouensis). Wir veröffentlichen heute erste Fotos von Mutter und Kind und freuen uns mit dem Zoo Magdeburg über diese Nachzucht! Es ist die einzige deutsche Haltung und darüber hinaus sind die Gabun-Zwergmeerkatzen lediglich in zwölf weiteren Zoos Europas zu sehen. Die Nördlichen Zwergmeerkatzen sind typische Regenwaldbewohner und leben in den afrikanischen Republiken Kamerun, Äquatorialguinea, Gabun und Kongo.
This new elephant enclosure seems to have gone under the radar a little. Is there a new house as well, or is it just an outdoor enclosure? And, from the little on the zoo's website, it sounds as if the two old animals are currently occupying what will, eventually, be a bull paddock. is that correct? Finally, is the development any good?
