The long awaited male manned wolf has arrived - from Moscow zoo. After death of the last old animal from the "old gard", the zoo is starting anew with a young pair. A female arrived earlier this year from Osnabrück. (In the past, Prague bred this species so well that its animals got over-represented in captive population and so breeding here was stopped for quite a long time).
According to the mayor Zdeněk Hřib posted on Facebook, the female pangolin that would be sent to Prague Zoo seems to be pregnant? Is it mean Prague could get 3 pangolins?
3 pangolins? That would be great, so far Europeans zoos had no luck to breed any pangolins, other than births from already pregnant females. But, would a small baby be suitaible for such a long travel?
Prague Zoo plans to transfer pairs of Edward's pheasants to Taipei Zoo in Taiwan as part of the international breeding programme. Prague Zoo breeds endangered Edwards´pheasant chicks
The zoo finally announced the birth from 31st August, or better to say a whole litter of 1,3 Tayras. They are now big enough to be seen by visitors in their exhibit.
A Javan gibbon was born on weekend, a third offspring for parents Flip and Alang-Alang. The oldest brother Silwer Arrow (6) lives now in Halle, younger Abu-Abu (3) is still in with parents. Source
On zoo youtube chanel was added talk about rhino husbandry, at the end of video there is a visualization of future rhino areal. It must be taken with a grain of salt (well, more grains ), because it isn´t immediate future, however... In place of today bison and camel paddocks (as well as wisents, takins...) there should be - new rhino paddock, clouded leopard aviary, island for gibbons, paddock for macaques. I must say I am pretty excited, even if I gonna miss huge bovids there... And of course, these plans may change before it comes to realization...
Don´t know about it, at least in zoo. However, there are speculation about some huge wisent paddock or "reservativon" somewhere out of zoo (similar to already existing Przewalski horse paddock on Dívčí hrady)
Just my guess/preference/intuition/whatever you call it: Thamin - incorporated to the rhino exhibit. Am. Bison - gone Eu. Bison - moved outside of zoo to some wild pasture as mentioned by @xmoose Takin - gone or moved to either goral's or blue sheep's exhibit. Chaco peccary - possibly moved to a different exhibit in the zoo, however there isn't really a lot of options...(I mean they could replace guanaco theroetically...) Spotted deer: possibly part of the rhino complex as well.
Oh, truth, rhinos should (according to current plan) probably share their paddock with some other species. While bisons being gone isn´t that big surprise and makes sense, about takins I would be quite surprised. But as you said - there aren´t that many options they could go... Same about peccaries - maybe lower part of zoo? There were plans for south american/amazonian areal made of old pachyderm house, I think that peccaries were also mentioned... but of course, that was postponed, if not entirely abandon...
Some bad news and some good news - little echidna born this year passed away surprisingly (probably due to infection) On the other note, while it isn´t oficially confirmed yet, wombats are in zoo (should be on display next month probably)
That little echidna died due to mixed bacterial infection (the zoo did not specify exact sort), edema and acute pneumonia, acute hepatitis, dilatation of the stomach with food and signs of acute circulatory pulmonary failure, according to an autopsy report done by state veterinary institute. This loss hurts a lot... And those "not confirmed yet wombats" will get a press conference tommorow morning so we might even get fresh pics. But yes, they need to go though 1-month quarantine period because they are imports from outside the EU (Australia).
I don't know, maybe they'll say something about it tommorow. But if they had this option to bring in animal considerably easier, it's understandable they went for it.
