I believe the new lion enclosure is supposed to open today. I was there a few days ago and it looked quite good.
Brno has first surviving Margay kitten. It´s offspring of breeding male Yoro they borrowed from Jihlava zoo for a few months.
Visited Brno Zoo last month, it rained the entire day, but still visited the entire park. Some good enclosures (brown bears and wolves come to mind) some bad (chimpanzees, leopards , manul, polar bears, and the worlds smallest lemur island) but mostly average. Nothing too spectacular. The least impressive zoo of my trip (which also included Praha, Plzen, Zlin-Lesna, Dvur Kralove and Ostrava) * Lion enclosure is finished, but due to the rain, I did not see any lions. It is quite spacious. For sure a whole lot better than the cages the Sri Lanka leopards live in. * Saw the margay kitten. It's doing great. * In addition to the giraffes and zebras, the savannah now also houses blesbok. There are no more wildebeests, though. * The Tropical House now displays Short-tailed opossum! Although, I didn't see any (it's a diurnal enclosure). * New as well; European badger (It's not on the map or the website, and it was not mentioned on ztl) * Another recent addition is the long-nosed potoroo. The also still keep rat kangaroo. * Another recent addition are the white-faced marmosets in the Tropical House. * Near the entrance, a new aviary for European birds is being constructed. * The chimpanzees are also getting a new, much bigger enclosure. This was much needed. * The new chimp enclosure is being build where the ibex enclosure used to be. The Siberian ibexes have moved in with the geladas. The barbary sheep that were there before that, seem to have left the collection. * I THINK the wallaby enclosure is no longer walk-through and I didn't see any yellow-footed rock wallabies, just the Bennetts. Theres still some photographs of the yellow-foot, but no actual signage. * Saw my first Freshwater morays (Gymnothorax tile) here. Awesome creatures and well visible. This one and a lot of other fish species were not on ZTL yet, so I updated it, for those who are interested.
Well you compare Brno with best zoos in Bohemia (and Moravia), thats bit unfair Leopards are still in cage? I thought they have an "open" enclosure (not too spacious and with net above, but definitely not a cage) Are there another expositions which are under construction now? (Himalaya, muskox?)
The leopards have 2 enclosures, one cage and one netted enclosure. The netted enclosure is somewhat more spacious and somewhat acceptable, but still not huge. The cage is just bad. (But Ostrava was even worse!) The zoo has enough space to expand the enclosure, one might think. I have photo's, I'll upload later. There were signs about the Himalaya area, but no works going on yet. I don't read Czech, but I remember snow leopards, kiangs, yaks and takins being in the plans.
Yeah, I know about plans and seems interesting for me (there is not something like that in Czech and in Brno with it´s terrain it could work good) And yeah, I really like Ostrava but big cat enclosures are more or less meh (at least tigers should get soon bigger space, not sure with lions and leopards)
If Ostrava would make enclosures for tigers, leopards and lions like the bear enclosure it would be awesome!
Well I think tigers should have something similar, with others however... (planned tigers expo.: Naše projekty - Zoo Ostrava)
Himalaya is the next project. I think it is due next year or so. The chimp exhibit should be finished this year.
That has been the case for last 4 years (seriously) I think the Chimpanzee exhibit won´t be that big to incorporate the Ibex´s exhibit. Maybe there are some repairing works going on but zoo has lined-up Himalayan tahrs for this exhibit. Barbary sheep had certainly left the collection. The Himalaya area should have according to Zoo´s website Snow leopards, Tibetan macaque, Blue sheep(not confirmed but heavily rumoured, other option is Goral), Vultures, some Pheasant species, Kiang, Takin and some domestic cattle
It´s Brno...so I´m going to be really surprised if those timeframes become true. (The chimps might be likely, but I´m sure that they´ll find some way how to delay it )
No idea...But the thing is, Brno has quite a habit of putting unique species to plans of new exhibits, but they never really get them.
The enclosure is still walk-through maybe it was just closed that day for some reason... There is a group of Swamp wallabies, and I'll try to find out if the yellow-footed are still present too.
