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Visited yesterday and was told by a "ranger" that a Greater kudu was born last week and that no less then 4 Southern white rhinos are pregnant --> births expected at the end of the year .

 

Yesterday the first European flamingo of this year hatched .

 

Like last year also this year a Secretary bird hatched at Beekse Bergen .

 

Quick question, does anyone here know what happened to the pair of Agile mangabeys they received from Epe in 2015? They were being kept behind the scenes in SBB, but now they seemed to have left the collection, according to ZTL.

EDIT: ZTL was just updated with a new holder in Italy (Zoo delle Maitine), so never mind this question.

 

Attempting to work out what the chimp groups are at the zoo. This is my current theory based on various news articles, excerpts found online and help from the 2014 studbook:

Bachelor group of 4

Dennis
Daan
Wouter
Sanne

Group of nine

Socrates
Stephan
Marlies
Michelle
Pepa
Fangina
Martje
Jozi
Inosha

Group of eleven

Gert-Jan
Wakili
Julian
Anna-Clara
Lenny
Centa
Linda
Nadine
Joke
Marijke
Lily


Can anyone confirm if I'm even half right? (also if anyone knows who Lily's mother is?)

 

Also, have any animals transferred from Antwerp, Münster or Emmen recently?

Because the zoo gave me seven chimp names I'd never heard of on private message and one of them was Tuena who apparently came from Rotterdam (this is clearly the gorilla). So I'm wondering if the following names from the above three zoos ring any bells?

Antwerp = Erik

Emmen = Sharno, Kitoto, Umba

Münster = Abuja, Amadou

All are male if that helps

 

Emmen has not kept chimps for the past 30 ( or eve more ) years so don't understand were these names came from .... ?

 

Exactly. This is why I'm asking here, to see if the others are in fact other animals with those names that have been transferred over, considering Tuena is a gorilla.

For the full story on why I'm asking this go to the Dutch Apes thread.

 

Komale and Tuena on their island :
https://www.facebook.com/petra.valkenburg/videos/1450783954939157/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED

 

After asking on a Dutch forum, it appears that these new chimps SBB said they had aren't real. These are the chimp groups as of right now:

Bachelor group (5) = Dennis, Gert-Jan, Daan, Wouter, Sanne

Socrates' group (9) = Socrates, Marlies, Michelle, Pepa, Fangina, Martje, Stephan, Jozi, Inosha

Wakili's group (10) = Anna-Clara, Lenny, Centa, Linda, Nadine, Joke, Marijke, Wakili, Julian, Lily

 

Today the world first "walk-through"enclosure for Sloth bears opened at Beekse Bergen ( video al little childish and in Dutch but nice views of the enclosure ! ) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3hGmPkMLc

 

African spoonbills hatched at Beekse Bergen .

 

The old Sloth bear / rhesus monkey enclosure being rebuild. Here a North african desert enclosure will be made with Addax, Dorcas gazelle and Ostrich.

 

The Black mangabeys from the park have been placed with the Gorillas. For the empty Mangabey island a new group will arrive soon.

 

With the bachelors, or Komale and Tuena? Also if it's the former, are the colobus also present in this mix?

 

The Black mangabeys are with the newly formed pair and the Colobus are still with the bachelor-group.

 

Yesterday Red buffalo female Inge became first-time mother of a female calf. It was the first birth of this species since 1997 .

 

A new Gorilla seem to have arrived at Beekse Bergen :
N'Washi .

 

The fourth Chilean flamingo for this year has hatched .

 

Today a Nile lechwe was born at the Safaripark .