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Future tortoises exhibit on the left

 

Some news :
- birth of a female scimitar-horned oryx during april,
- Mayomba, the female pygmy hippo born two years ago will leave the park in a few weeks for Cabarceno.

 

Some news about the new tortoises exhibit : the park received 12 african spurred tortoise :
- 10 female between 5 and 7 years old,
- 2 males of 15 and 25 years.
All of these were coming from Sigean and Biotropica.
Two others tortoises will arrive soon.

 

Arrival of 3.0 parma wallabies, new species for the park. They are presented in the past reindeers enclosure, in front of the visayan warty pigs.
The reindeers are now in the farm area.

 

Any idea how old the other individuals of these African spurred tortoises might be Centrochelys sulcata?

 

@Kifaru Bwana If you want the info I can find.

 

@Kifaru Bwana The last two are more than 15 years old.

 

Video of the new tortoises exhibit :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=515611253101075

Important news : Belur, a 30 years old male indian rhino came from Nuremberg last July 14th to form a pair with the young resident female. The park has a breeding recommandation from the EEP.

 

Arrival of two dromedary camels. New species for the park.
They will be mix with the somali wild asses and the scimitar-horned oryx in the new dry african plain.

Other new species : 8 greek tortoises arrived from a seizure. They are off-show except for those who are doing the activity "keeper for a day".
Zoodyssee received the same number of tortoises.

 

The park has now confirmed that he will receive cassowaries and okapis next year

 

Photo of the okapis' house construction :





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From what I read somewhere on the net the building will be 300 square meters.

And a news : according to zootierliste a pair of silvery-cheeked hornbills arrived a few months ago. This news must be verified as there is no place to put them on show now. If it's true I guess the birds will go in the new okapis area. Will see next year !

 

Some new info about the okapi exhibit : there will be three outdoor enclosure and the okapi building will be accessible to the public.
Other important news : the exhibit will welcome sitatunga, blue duiker and wattle crane

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...MQFnoECAYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw014MAPLDhHzSbYoEvutdm6

 

I'm especially happy for the Blue Duikers.
This species became increasingly rare in European zoos, as all Duiker species.

 

Will see if it is confirmed as, sometines, the brochure are not good. But, for sure, this place could be very good for such a species.

 

The new flyer confirm the species indicated in the brochure so the okapis will share their three enclosures with sitatungas, blue duikers and wattle cranes + a small antelope looking like a dik-dik is drawn so maybe another new species

 

Sadly, Kedou, a 15 years old male kordofan giraffe, passed away. The park still has 3 other bulls (bachelor group).

 

I find new pictures of the future okapi building (which is 340 m²) :



Here you can see our wooden will be the large outdoor enclosures


The backside of the buidling


Morbihan. Nouveauté: comment le parc de Branféré soigne l'arrivée des Okapis - Les Infos du Pays Gallo

 

Parc de Branféré recently welcomed its first okapi. It's the 2-year old okapi male Guus from Safaripark Beekse Bergen in the Netherlands.

Source: Facebook Beekse Bergen

 

And this week the new cassowaries exhibit will be opened with a female called Moïta on show.





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