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  1. vogelcommando

    vogelcommando Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    After the spectaculair aditions of Squirrel monkeys and Snowy owls its time for something really intresting : a roller coaster :( ! :

    Wildlands krijgt achtbaan
     
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    vogelcommando Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Since last year Azara agouties are kept in the large tropical hall in Wildlands and now the first 2 young have been born :) :

    Agoeti’s geboren in WILDLANDS
     
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    Based on the following sources, Wildlands Adventure Zoo currently has two pregnant Asian elephants and possibly a third.

    Mingalar Oo -> Petra Prager – Elefanten-Fotolexikon
    Ma Yay Yee -> Petra Prager – Elefanten-Fotolexikon
    Mingalar Oo | EleWiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
    Ma Ya Yee | EleWiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
    Swe Zin | EleWiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia

    Since the arrival of Mekong in January of 2016, Wildlands Adventure Zoo has been able to presume its Asian elephant breeding program. In that time, Mekong has been able to breed with Mingalar Oo, Ma Yay Yee, and potentially Swe Zin. Subsequently, Mingalar Oo and Ma Yay Yee are pregnant with Mingalar Oo expecting some time in 2018 and Ma Yay Yee expecting in June of 2018.

    Some sources have stated that Mingalar Oo was expected to deliver as early as December of 2017 so when is Mingalar Oo actually expecting?

    Is Swe Zin pregnant and if so, when is she expecting?
     
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    vogelcommando Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    New species in the tropical hall : 2 blue-faced honey-eaters were released into the hall today :).
     
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    First elephant born at Wildlands - Emmen, a male :) !
     
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    Very exciting news! This is the fifth calf for mother Mingalar Oo and the fourth for genetically valuable sire Mekong, and the first of theirs together. Being a little bull though, it means all five of Mingalars's offspring have been males. Yikes!
     
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    Interestingly, the first two letters of Mekong’s second offspring Maxmilian and the last two letters of Mekong’s third offspring Sanuk create the name of the new elephant calf Mauk.
     
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    Huh, how interesting!
     
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    Again a new species to be seen in the tropical hall ( Jungola ) : Hottentot teals :).
     
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    If they contiue to add species here and there, I may be inclided to visit someday. :p
     
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    For me the only reason to visit wildlands is to check it off the list. Trying to visit all the zoos in the country!
     
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    If they keep on adding species at this rate, I might be inclined to visit in 5-10 years, if they haven't closed again that is :p
     
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    A new species will be added soon: a pair of Rhea (not Emu....) will join the wallaby.
     
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    Lets hope the male isn't aggressive!

    I don't get why they choose rhea. Emu are hardly different in husbandry and just as common, and they would fit better with the wallaby.
     
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    After 2 years of saying that information signs do not belong in "their type of zoo that is not a zoo", they have finally placed proper information signs that actually contain real information. This was done after a lot of visitors complained that it was impossible to get any information on the animals (they only had extremely basic signs and an app)

    There was also an Onager birth.
     
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    But the onager baby already was put down due to some damage after another onager kicked the baby
     
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    Some more bad new for Wildlands. In its second year of operation it has made a loss of 1.8 million euros and the number of people with an annual pass has more than halved to 31.000. Wildlands now has until August to come up with a plan that will convince the municipality it can get back to normal.

    On another note: Bali starlings and Nicobar pigeons have been added in the Tropical hall.
     
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    The old zoo was worth to revisit. The Biochron was something unique, especially in it's first decade with the dioramas of the coal forest, pterosaurs, Archaeopteryx and Protoceratops among others. The savanna, the pampa, the tiger, leopard and elephant enclosures were ahead of their time in my first visits to the zoo, compared to other Dutch zoos like Blijdorp or Artis in these days.

    Wildlands is just a crappy version of Hannover with a rollercoaster.
     
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