A REVIEW OF 2013 Overview of the key highlights of the fiscal year 2013: - Zoo with rich variety of animals and species: At the end of the fiscal year 2013, Hellabrunn had 19,132 animals comprising 752 different species living at the zoo. This makes the zoo in Munich the most diverse zoo in Europe both in terms of the number of animals and the variety of species.- In the last fiscal year, 1,717,473 visitors visited Hellabrunn Zoo. This is the second highest attendance figure since the zoo was founded in 1911. - Annual pass sales once again increased over the successful prior year figure: 30,668 annual passes were sold in 2013. This represents an increase of 25 per cent compared to 2012. - The 10,000 m2 Giraffe Savannah opened on the Whitsun weekend in 2013, after only one year of construction. The new residents are reticulated giraffes, meerkats and porcupines, all living in close proximity to each other, just like in their African homeland. - Animal births in 2013 include the birth of the polar bear twins on 9 December 2013, widely reported around the world. Other successes of targeted breeding programmes in 2013 include the birth of baby giraffes, gorillas and the endangered drill. - Animals relocated from other European zoos to Hellabrunn Zoo and have been living in Munich since 2013 are as follows: cape hyrax, meerkats, swamp wallabies, porcupines, fats sand rats and Girgentana goats. - Hellabrunn Zoo on social media: Hellabrunn Zoo's Facebook page went live in 2012. The Facebook page recorded a 143 per cent increase in Likes in the course of 2013 and currently stands at 15,210 Likes. The video clips posted on Hellabrunn’s YouTube channel to celebrate the birth of the polar bear twins in mid-December 2013 recorded almost 192,000 hits within two weeks.
Plzen's 2013 annual report (http://www.zooplzen.cz/Files/zoo/zooplzen_vyrocni_zprava_2013.pdf) lists 1,255 taxa at the end of 2013 (many off-show, of course, but I doubt all of Munich's are on show either!).
The claim is even more ironic when one considers that their former Director, Andreas Knieriem, is now in charge of Zoo Berlin and Tierpark Berlin - both of which I rather suspect hold more taxa than Tierpark Hellabrunn do - and has stated that one of his main priorities at said collections is to cut down the number of taxa held!
Article about the hatching of a King penguin : After 11 Years, Hellabrunn Zoo Welcomes A King Penguin Chick - ZooBorns
Five bulls then at Heidelberg ? Thai was moved to zürich, but I think, he was replaced by another bull, but I can't rembeer his name and where he came from.
Indian Rhino female"Rapti"is expecting her third calf, she is due in August: Tierpark Hellabrunn: Newsanzeige The first one was dead born, the second died three days after the birth, so hopefully, the Zoo has more luck this time."Rapti"is wild caught, so she is very important for the european gene pool.
Suffice to say this would be the most important birth for Indian GOHR in Europe this year or 3! Hope all goes well this time! Any information available on whether they have done any research into the health of the future offspring (given her previous medical and reproductive history with calves)?
Today in the morning, female Indian Rhino"Rapti"gave birth to a healthy bull calf. Both are doing well, and"Rapti"is again a good mother. Tierpark Hellabrunn: Newsanzeige
This really is the BIG ISSUE for 2015 and it is nice to know all is going well. The bull calf is all the more special for the EEP since mother Rapti is a wild-born animal and was not represented till now within the European / global population.
Thats correct. A Shame, the wild caught pair at Vienna Zoo isn't breeding-both are so important for the EEP, but strange, they never changed the individuals there, for unknown reasons.
