After checking my pictures, I'm sure it is an Edible Dormouse. I also read on the internet that the city of Osnabrück has a large wild population of those, so large in fact that they are considered vermin. Does the zoo keep dormouse in their tamarin enclosure? Otherwise it must have been a wild animal.
I just uploaded almost 100 photos of Osnabruck Zoo in the gallery. For a facility that regularly has one million annual visitors, the zoo is definitely underrepresented on ZooChat.
This was the next zoo on my list to upload from my trip in June so you might just have saved me a lot of time - I can be much more selective now there's already a recent set!
You have to take the visitor numbers in Germany with a pinch of salt. Zoos like Hannover and Osnabruck do not count actual visits, but for each annual pass they count 20 visits. This leads to huge overestimations and zoos like Basel and Burgers' Zoo who stopped using such methods saw their visitor numbers drop by 50 and 30 percent respectively...
Maned wolf born at Osnabrück ( article in German ) : Gute Nachricht des Tages: Mähnenwolfnachwuchs im Zoo Osnabrück | hasepost.de
Gute Nachricht des Tages: Erbschaft ermöglicht dem Zoo Osnabrück eine neue Elefantenanlage | hasepost.de They plan a new elephant house in Osnabrück.
The porcupines had babies on April 21st, a female named Kali and a male named Shiva . Also, not announced in this news thread, a female black bear named Honey arrived from an abandoned zoo in Malta last fall.
On June 10th, a male black bear arrived from a danish zoo. He is named Spike and he will be company to Honey which as mentioned in this thread was rescued from an abandoned zoo in Malta. He is currently separated from her but they can see each other through a protective fence. Security Check Required 4 capybara pups were born to mother Lady Gaga on May 30th. Security Check Required On March, a North American porcupine named Ben was born to parents Mechtild and Manfred. Security Check Required 5 Hudson Bay wolf pups were born in May. Security Check Required
Elefantenjunge “Minh-Tan” bekommt zwei Baby-Geschwister im Osnabrücker Zoo | hasepost.de Elephant cows Sita and Donna are pregnant!!! Sita is 7 years old and her mum Donna 34. Great news!
Very late reply as I just saw this. Osnabrück sold more than 41.000 annual passes in 2018 and more than 46.000 in 2019. Given this theory this would mean that they automatically counted 820.000 in 2018 and 920.000 in 2019 - in other words only 200.000 and 100.000 daily tickets were sold in these years. This can never be true. I agree that the numbers are somewhat fixed as it is very suspicious to always have a tiny bit above 1 mio each year, still it's not the factor 20. Since a year or two they have the technical possibilities to count every visitor though. With Hannover I never heard the rumor that the numbers are fixed. They do not appear as not too high, quite in contrast. They have the latest technology to count the visitors, I am pretty sure that the numbers are more accurate than in most other zoos.
One week ago Asian elephant Douanita gave birth to a male named Yaro, he is already her sixth calf and the first to be sired at Osnabrück. Zoo Osnabrück | Elefantenjungtier Yaro
Last thursday a male Asian elephant was born at Osnabrück but the cald refused to drink and has died .... .
On January 22 a male round-eared elephant shrew arrived from Wilhelma Zoo. More information about the death can be found here: Zoo Osnabrück | Zweites Elefantenbaby musste erlöst werden
There has been an incident in the new lion enclosure today. A young female keeper was cleaning the enclosure but apparently a slide was still open and a lion attacked her - she could rescue herself into the keepers area and was brought into hospital. Reports differ between minor and major injuries but her life is not at risk. The zoo keeps five lions, the old breeding couple Nakuru (19) and Shaba (20) with their castrated male offspring Amani, Kipangi and Mahiri (all 12; mahiri is son of Nakuru x Nyota, who died two years ago)
Here is a Link about the Lion incident. https://www-zeit-de.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.zeit.de/amp/news/2021-02/21/loewe-greift-im-zoo-osnabrueck-pflegerin-an?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQHKAFQArABIA==#aoh=16139888921491&referrer=https://www.google.com&_tf=Von %1$s&share=https://www.zeit.de/news/2021-02/21/loewe-greift-im-zoo-osnabrueck-pflegerin-an Your German Zoo World
Some 2021 moves: Births 0.1 Kirk's dikdik (additional to the reported one) 1.0 North American porcupine Deaths 0.1 Lesser Kudu 0.1 West African Warthog 0.1 Southern ostrich 0.1 Red-crested turaco Additions 1.0 Lesser Kudu 0.2 West African warthogs 0.3 Striped skunks 0.1 Meerkat Leaving 1.1 Eurasian wolverines 1.1.6 Capybaras 0.1 Serval 1.0 Kirk's dikdik
