Quite funny to find nothing on Zoochat about this park ! This park is located in the middle west of France near the city of Limoges (100.000 inhabitants). It has a quite complete collection (giraffes, african, south-american and asian ungulates, big cats, monkeys...) for an average zoo with some highlights (persian onagers, vervet monkeys, bharals, visayan warty pigs, Philippines spotted deers, binturongs, kinkajous...). The zoo is built around a castle with part landscape garden. It could be nice but a third of the enclosures are bad or uggly. But there are two large african plains and one asian plain, a really good sumatran tigers exhibit (built 3/4 years ago) and a double huge(1,6 hectares) natural enclosure for two polar bears. Here you can find the internet site : Accueil - Parc Zoo du Reynou and the Facebook page : Parc Zoo Du Reynou According to the map on the internet site the zoo will welcome bantengs this year.
Small news from the park : - arrival of pygmy marmosets, - arrival of Philippines spotted deers. Parc Zoo Du Reynou
Recent births : - 4 indian swamp deers, - 4 axis deers, - 5 lemurs (don't know more), - 13 egyptian fruit bats, - 2 guerezas.
The Zoo applied to a state bank dedicated to entreprises to help its development. With the new money they want to create a small train circuit and make digital transformation of the park. The main goal is to welcome approximately 110.000 visitors per year (instead of 90.000). Investissement - Le parc zoologique du Reynou au Vigen ouvre son capital à Bpifrance pour accélérer son développement
Some news from the park : - after the recent death of the only old southern white rhino two new ones will arrived in june. The zebras' barn will be refurbished in this way. - two new giraffes will arrive from Switzerland and les Sables d'Olonne. - the past bisons plain will welcome bantengs and buffalos in may. - next year visitors will be able to visit the park in trucks. - the zoo want to creat 36 new lodges in the next years (they have 4 for the moment).
The first giraffe is Quendrim, male kordofan born 2019.03.27 in Basel, arrived March 23th, and the second is Moundou, male kordofan born 2019.04.24 in les Sables d'Olonne. Video of the arrival of Quendrim : https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=543452216638970 From what we can see on this video and read on Facebook it appears that le Reynou has 4 giraffes (bachelor group I suppose as it was for a long time now).
Two young white rhino bulls (still nameless (?), born 2017 and 2018) were sent from Copenhagen to Reynou this week.
Really surprising the Zoo has not communicated on their arrival at this time ! Other news : birth of an indian swamp deer June 9th.
A new male roloway monkey arrived at the beginning of this month to form a new breeding pair with the resident female. Don't know from which zoo he came.
The zoo transfered last december 2nd 1,1 patas monkeys to Negev Zoo in Israël. According to Zootierliste there were just 1,1 patas in march 2021 so I suppose there were the last for the zoo. Se connecter à Facebook | Facebook
Some recent news : - the zoo is building a new wolf enclosure with three new night accomodations. - a hartmann's moutain zebra called Free arrived from Montpellier Zoo.
For this year, in addition to the new wolves enclosure the zoo said there will be a new entrance a refurbished meerkats enclosure. Réouverture du Parc Zoo du Reynou à tarif réduit : tout ce que vous devez savoir - Parc Zoo du Reynou
Great news! I have a feeling that the Persian onager are getting more attention in Europe and the population is starting to thrive in earnest! I feel a status update is well overdue on the EEP/EAZA population.