Today, it has been announced that the duck in the beaver area had 11 chicks and the male duck has been moved to accompany a young female crane who has arrived to the zoo recently. Also, in April 20th the red-billed firefinch had two chicks. A crowned lemur was born on April 17th.
44 years old gorilla Lena was put to sleep on June 9th. Tiergarten Nürnberg: Gorilla Lena eingeschläfert 6 young European Pond Turtles were given to the zoo to raise from Offenbach, near Frankfurt. They are expecting to release them to the wild when they are older. Security Check Required A kulan foal was born to mother Lea on May 26th. Security Check Required On May 13th, 38 years old Lowland Tapir Daisy died. She was one of the oldest Lowland Tapirs in Europe. Sie zog im Tiergarten Nürnberg zehn Jungtiere auf: Trauer um Flachlandtapir Daisy
In July 2020 11 males and 8 females of European ground squirrels ( Spermophilus citellus ) were brought to the Czech Republic and have been re-introduced into the wild . Also 2 young Ural owls left the zoo for a re-introduction project in Bavaria .
29-year old male Harpy Vito has been send to Parque Condor - Otavalo - Ecuador. The male which hatched at Nurnberg on June 26 1991 will be paired to 31-year female Olafa. This female was found injured in the wild and unreleaseble. Olafa has already proven to be a godd breeding-animal and has already raised 16 chicks ( a world-record in captivity ? ). All these captive-bred birds have been released into the wild in Belize and Panama.Hopefully the new to be formed pair will also be so succesfull. At Nurnberg there are now still 2-1 Harpy's.
And another species is gone recently, both Babirusas died at the end of july from a bacterial infection pasteurellosis, the female was-of course-pregnant with twins.
An unfortunate incident with P. multocida. The fact they mated and the immigrant female was pregnant does underline this too. The species will not be fully lost as the zoo intends to acquire a new pair in due course (but it may take some time to do so). Nuernberg Zoo is also studbook keeper for the EEP/EAZA.
Don't know how I missed Nuremberg until now, but was happy to catch up today. It wasn't perfect weather for zooing with regular showers throughout the day, but had enough clear sky to explore the collection. It was pleasant surprise, that I can enter the zoo at 8:00 and went straight to the Giraffe House's Saharan Striped Weasel exhibit . In 10-15 min. time seen one individual, which run in and out for a few minutes and disappeared. What a unique creature, indeed. Never seen it's cousin - the Zorilla, but this will be a future challenge for me. Realising that I finished my cup with luck for the day, started to explore the other parts of the zoo. All of the houses are closed unfortunately, but it is a nice bonus, that man can observe the Dessert House activities through the windows. Right there are the other two Striped Weasel connected excibits - remarkable design achievement! I checked both enclousures multiple times and even noticed some traces of movement, but couldn't manage to see the inhabitants again. Don't know, what not to love about this zoo. Spacios, but never boring natural enclosures. Century old oak trees. Very curious different layers of red rocks. Plenty of hoofed mammals And some state-of-the-art expositions. Besides the famous Yellow- throated Marten, Eurasian Lynx and Fishing cat enclosures, special attention deserve the Lammargeiger Aviary and Mediterranean exhibit. Couldn't visit the Manatee House of course, but hopefully can manage soon. Interesting why they had stopped housing Elephants. ZTL says thar they had the Asian species until 2007. Couldn't see the Yellow-backed Duiker and I am not sure , if the animal is still there. On the early morning you could check it's stables through the windows, but they were covered later. There were bulldozers in the Wapiti paddock and the animals were not there to be seen either. Nuremberg is compared very often with TP Berlin, but even the collection is smaller, the place has its own particular charm. It is also huge and steep, but easier to navigate and you don't need to cover big areas without seeing an animals around. Will definitely catch first opportunity to come back here.
Thank you @twilighter for your review. I visited it last year for two days and it was a real pleasure. Sad you couldn't visit the manatees house as it is a real delight (like desert and carnivore's house). For the yellow-backed duiker, I saw it well in the house at the end of the day. Outdoor he was in a grass enclosure behind the scottish highlands. The seing was not good.
A new male amur tiger called Nikolai, born in Lisbon Zoo in 2017, arrived from Hodenhagen Safaripark. He will be paired with resident female Katinka. Births are expacted in the future
Nothing new about the fishing cats, but the Tiergarten has bigger cats to worry about: A couple of weeks ago, director Dag Encke gave a honest and progressive interview on the future of modern zoos, in which he also mentioned the issue of surplus specimens. Tiergarten Nuremberg is one of the major German zoos that openly addresses this controversial topic as well as practises what they preach and feed euthanized zoo ungulates to their carnivores in public. In the interview, Encke mentioned that one of their Asian lions hasn't performed as expected in regard to breeding and used him as an example that even a male lion could be euthanized if he couldn't be placed in another professional institution. It took a while for the local yellow press to pick up on this. And with their usual professionalism, eh, sensationalism, they stated that the zoo was planning to kill the lion for being impotent / infertile. The result was a nationwide public outcry against zoos in general and the Tiergarten in particular. Their PR department and Encke tried again and again to explain the issue, with little effect. The other day, a local radio station called Antenne Bayern loudly announced that the lion was safe, as they had prepared his transfer to a lion "sanctuary" in South Africa. When confronted with this, the zoo was expectedly rather peeved, as they knew nothing about this and had not planned to send the lion anywhere in the near future. Even the mayor of Nuremberg himself got involved and made a public announcement that the Antenne Bayern story was a canard. The radio station maintains that due to their heroic act, the lion cannot be killed now since, thanks to them, there's an option to send an Asian lion to Africa. And the gullible public praises the generosity of the station in the face of the cruel, inhumane zoo...#facepalm.
