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At ZooParc Overloon, Siberian tiger Bart has passed away. Bart had lived with his sister Leela, who died november last year, in ZooParc Overloon since 2016. He was almost eighteen years old. He had been struggling with health problems for a some time. After the passing of Bart, there are currently no Siberian tigers in ZooParc Overloon.

Source: ZooParc heeft afscheid genomen van geliefde bewoner | ZooParc

 

Just out of interest, does anyone know the names of the tigers that are left and what are their ages? I think there are only the 2 white bengals left?

 

Yes, only the two white tigers are left. When they arrived in Overloon in July 2015, Asia the female was eight months old and Rama the male was 3.5 years old.

 

New species at Overloon : 8 Tobago stream frogs ( Mannophryne olmonae ) have arrived.

 

ZooParc Overloon has welcomed four female mhorr gazelles (Nanger dama mhorr). They come from zoos in Spain, France and Germany. In the autumn a male will join them. They will live together with two ostriches in the former enclosure of the Vietnamese sika deer and blackbucks.

The latter two will move to the former African wild dog enclosure. A new enclosure for the wild dogs is being built next to the lion enclosure. It's almost finished, the wild dogs should be visible again at this new enclosure in about two weeks time.

Source: Eén van de meest bedreigde dieren ter wereld te zien in ZooParc

 

Four male monkeys have recently arrived at ZooParc Overloon.

- Two coppery titi's (Plecturocebus cupreus) came from the Apenheul. This is a new species for the zoo.

- A white-faced saki (Pithecia pithecia) from Marwell Zoo in England.

- An Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur (Hapalemur alaotrensis) also came from Marwell Zoo.

The coppery titi's and white-faced saki live in the South America area, called Madidi. The bamboo lemur male now lives with the female bamboo lemurs in the Madagascar area, called Itampolo.

Source: ZooParc verwelkomt rode titi’s, witgezichtsaki en bamboemaki

 

Recently a male Red kangaroo (Osphranter rufus) named Bruce arrived at the zoo.

Source:
Instagram of ZooParc Overloon (19/09/2022)

 

In a World Animal Day Facebook post today, ZooParc Overloon mentioned that the new African wild dog exhibit has been open to the public since last saturday. A picture is included in the post.

ZooParc Overloon Facebook post (2022-10-04)

 

I visited Overloon yesterday and saw the new African wild dog exhibit. It is quite nice, good size and with a decent lay-out, and seems to be some improvement from the previous exhibit, as is the new meerkat exhibit next to it. The little "African school"/wildlife conservation center near the two new exhibits is also quite nicely done and themed (including an "open door" with a glass plane looking out into the exhibit), although it could have done with more signage or educational displays. I appreciated the fact that the new African wild dog exhibit can also be seen from some of the existing lion viewing areas (behind the lion exhibit and separated from it by a moat and fence in a lower-lying zone). My biggest criticism of the new exhibit would probably be that the viewing area on the tiger side of the new exhibit is difficult and quite risky to access as it on a steep dirt berm, and could be make more visitor-friendly (the same is also true of a main viewing area for the fossa exhibit, although that one has big, uneven rocks instead of a dirt berm).

I noticed that near the new African wild dog and meerkat exhibits, there is a substantial expansion area, already fenced into the zoo but still with three (empty?) farm stable buildings on it, surrounded by corn stubble. It is quite a sizable plot of land, it certainly has quite a few possibilities for future developments. It will interesting to see what they will do with it.

I enjoyed the new Madidi south American area also. Decent, good-looking exhibits, apart from the boa constrictor terrarium, which looked bland and basic and was also not presented at an ideal height for viewing and had a lot of reflection on the window. The Madidi area also presents an attractive collection. Although the area's name refers to an area in Bolivian Upper Amazonia the collection actually comes from different areas of South America, and the signage also mentioned different South American habitats (Amazonian rainforest, Atlantic forest, grasslands, mountains), which I definitely found a plus. They also found a good solution for their South American aviary, netting the visitor area so the birds can still go out and be seen fairly well. What I did miss a little in this area were some South American parrots and maybe curassows or seriemas, but there is still some space left for future exhibits in this area, for example the space of the former meerkat exhibit, so perhaps something like that will one day be added, or at least something interesting will hopefully soon be done with that area.

One thing that I did not like very much where the dinosaurs sculptures currently temporarily installed for their "dinosaur weeks". These sculptures were partially animatronic. There were some head and/or arm movements (which wasn't the bad part) but the statues also produced a fair bit of dumb groaning and moaning noises, which irritated me quite a bit, and which I found very unnecessary and distracting. It also bothered me that the sculptures ranged so much in size, from several times smaller than the actual size over more or less life-sized to several times enlarged. Some of the statues looked relatively nice, but a few were also butt ugly. At least their Dilophosaurus model did not have the Jurassic Park neck frill. That said, I don't personally feel that dinosaur statues add that much to the value of a zoo visit.

 

On the 22nd of October 2 Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) were born.

Source:
Instagram of ZooParc Overloon (16/11/2022)

 

At ZooParc Overloon, 11-year-old white tiger Rama has died. He had been suffering from health problems for some time. Keepers noticed that Rama had lost his appetite and was no longer alert. It was decided to put him to sleep.

Rama had been living with Asia at ZooParc Overloon since 2015. Asia is now the only, and will also be the last white tiger at the zoo. From the European management programme, a phase-out policy has been put in place for white tigers.

ZooParc Overloon will now use their tiger enclosures for Amur tigers. This spring, a female Amur tiger will arrive from Sweden.

Source: ZooParc Overloon

 

Would they be open to accept confiscated white tigers from illegal private holdings? Because majority of white tigers in Europe is not kept in public zoos.

 

At the start of this year 7 African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) hatched.

Source:
Instagram of ZooParc Overloon (12/01/2023)

 

A white-faced saki was born in the Madidi area at ZooParc Overloon.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=498905649111083

 

Two grey-winged trumpeters have been added to the Madidi area at ZooParc Overloon.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2095862590610760

 

ZooParc Overloon has an Amur tiger again. Yesterday, 12-year-old female Zaria arrived from a Swedish zoo.

Source: Facebook ZooParc Overloon

 

A bit of a puzzle, this will be Zaria that was in Orsa. She had cubs in 2018 with Yegor Zov (who was born Amersfoort) In 2021 Yegor fathered a cub with Sparta, mother of Beekse Bergens Yarko. Zaria was born in Port Lympne in 2010, to mother Ingrid Alexandra, who has the same father as Beekse Bergens Angara.

 

In March a bactrian camel was born.

Source:
Instagram of ZooParc Overloon (19/03/2023)

 

Recently male Giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) Emiel (*2021) moved to Noahs Ark Zoo. ZooParc Overloon now only has their breeding pair left.

Source:
Instagram of ZooParc Overloon (25/04/2023)

 

The newborn is a female.

Source:
Instagram of ZooParc Overloon (14/05/2023)