新エリア スカンクハウス登場！ : What's New : 那須どうぶつ王国 : 那須どうぶつ王国 The park has announced the preparations for a skunk display where there also is a section where the visitors could experience a skunk musk!
Following the departure of red pandas and manuls from the forest of conservation exhibit, the park hasplaced meerkats and Japanese squirrels to the exhibit.
Two manul kittens were born on April 22 and wil be displayed to the public at July 13 if all goes well. They are not the same sex. 準絶滅危惧種「マヌルネコ」すくすく 那須どうぶつ王国、７月一般公開へ｜地域の話題,県内主要｜下野新聞「SOON」ニュース｜下野新聞 SOON(スーン)
I forgot to mention that the mother of the kittens Polly arrived from Sweden (location unkown) at around 2015. The father Bor/Bol is from Saitama children's zoo.
Still a very memorable breeding result! What is the status with manul in Japan? Is there a separate JAZA breeding program for them?
Here is a list of 150 species chosen by JAZA's biodiversity comitee. Manuls don't seem to be on the list. However, there are 6 zoos with 14 animals including 5 babies born at Saitama children's zoo in 2017 (here is a link about them マヌルネコのいる動物園-日本動物園水族館協会（日動水・JAZA）の飼育動物検索から - アリエスコム（ARIEScom.jp）へようこそ). Do manuls have an isb?
The park uploaded a blog post about the pallas's cat kittens. Apparently there were 7 babies first. マヌルネコ誕生記録 : 王国タウン : オフィシャル・ブログ : 那須どうぶつ王国
The names if the manul kittens has been chosen: the male is named Azu/Az (happiness in Mongolian) and the female is named Eru/Er/Elu/El (based on Erule/Erur, health in Mongolian).
Twitter A new wolf enclosure will be built and opened next year at March 20. The tweet specifically says that the wolves are arctic wolves. According to JAZA there are no arctic wolves in any member institutions. I haven’t found the source of the wolves.
那須どうぶつ王国にホッキョクオオカミ 20年3月登場: 日本経済新聞 The first press release on the new arctic wolf exhibit. The enclosure isa pert of a North American exhibit which prairie dogs will also return to the zoo.
A recent article said that the exhibit will have a breeding pair coming from a European zoo in late January.
Nasu will he opening a sand cat exhibit in the forest of conservation building. The individual are named Sharif and Jameel.
I forgot to mention that the import if the arctic wolves has been delayed by the exporting country. The rest of the North America exhibit will still open at March 20
Four small clawed otters and a sand cat were born. this is the first case which a sand cat was bred in a JAZA accredited zoo.
