According to Facebook post from a member of Brno's city council, zoo will get new polar bear male from Holland next year after reconstruction of current exhibit will be finished.
There must be plans somewhere around as this project had been in the planning stages for some years now!
It won't be construction of whole new exhibit which is planned for years and its visualisations is on zoo's website, that is for sure. Basically what has been said is that the bears will get new pool - larger and deeper than the current one. There will be new concrete floor made and some rockwork (both natural and mock rock) placed.
Indeed, so it is. It also need pointing out ZZ Brno has a good track record in polar bear husbandry and breeding!
I think it also needs pointing out that the current exhibit is essentially a classic bear pit that isn't really fit for purpose.
I see no need to take on this argument any further as the renovation is part and parcel of improving the current exhibit (deservedly so or undeservedly so). What I will say though is that no amount of new polar bear exhibit development can take away some of the breeding achievements in modern day and age considered substandard, outdated or downright sub fossil historical exhibitry where breeding achievements may have been totally contradictory to any well thought through hyper new and modern day husbandry and animal welfare aspects and zoo management considerations in design and operation new polar bear developments (both in size, tools and instruments within and / or replacting natural habitats … exhibits might hope to achieve). Amen! (This quip needs no response here …, for those wishing to take it any further I suggest than setting up a separate thread. And no, for now, I am not going to participate in any of that for entirely personal reasons. And please no offence to anyone intended to take up discourse … to be direct and to the point here).
Chicks hatched on June: Cinnamon Teal Pied Avocet Crested Partridge Security Check A Bactrian camel was born on June 8th. Security Check A Yellow footed rock wallaby got out of the pouch on May 16th. Zoo Brno
The above discussed enlargement of water pool in polar bear enclosure is done, after some delays. The zoo can finally ask for a new male from the EEP.
The zoo published some plans for year 2021. Here is the list of points from the article: - transport of 1,0 Khari the Giraffe from Whipsnade to Brno as a new breeding male in spring - oficial opening of new viewing structure at giraffe pavilion - addition of common European adder in the zoo entrance exhibit - addition of a new male moose - import of 2 Sumatran tigers from Batu Secret zoo (in exchange for a pair of snow leopards from other european zoos) during autumn The zoo lost 80.000 visitors compared to last year.
Their group of Yellow-footed rock-wallabies in the walk-through exhibit got a little bit larger. A still unxesed youngster has left its mummy´s pouch. The group now consists of 1 male, 2 females, 1-year old cub and now this fresh one. An obligatory pic from FB page of Zoo Brno:
In year 2017, the resident pair of lions Lolek and Kivu gave birth to a litter of two cubs (1,1). The young female Anoona has been now sent to Zoo Chorzow/Poland. Future place for the young male Akashinga is still under discussion.
At least 3 Rainbow lorikeets (Trichoglossus moluccanus) have hatched. Source: Instagram of Zoo Brno (15/04/2021) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNsJdvQLKZk/
The walk-though wallaby enclosure has a small baby boom. 2 young Swamp wallabies have left pouches as well as the second Yellow-footed rock-wallaby cub. And follow-up lion news, young male Akashinga left for Zamosc /Poland last month.
Sri Lanka leopard pair Daan (male *2011 Arnhem) and Nayana (female *2011 in Bratislava) have a new litter of 2 cubs born late evening 31.May. Their sex will be know in one month after first check-up by a vet.
Their polar fox pair Gunnar and Lola has a litter of 12 cubs (11 are males and 1 is female). The Red panda cub born last year in May with name Siddhi has been sent away, to Switzerland (Zürich zoo). The breeding group of Spider tortoises (Pyxis arachnoides brygooi) has produced another youngster in May. Two Roti Island snake-necked turtle babies (Chelodina mccordi ) hatched in May. 3 Swift parrots hatched as well as one Great horned owl chick. Two Little Owl chicks have hatched this spring and are prepaired for rewilding. This species is critically endangered in our country and several zoos participate in rescue breeding program. The pair of Large hairy armadillo has 2 youngsters.
A new Kamtschatka-brown bear came from Zoo La Fleche/France. A female named Irina, born 2014 at Hagenbeck Tierpark in Hamburg. She will get to know the resident old female Kamcatka and if it goes well, both will be mixed in a few months.
It seems that new larger chimpanzee outdoor paddock was finally opened - for visitors, not for animals, who don´t have acces to it due to planned reconstruction or upgrades inside their house
The zoo got financial support from the local municipality - 288.000 EUR. Those will be used to build a (mixed?) new enclosure for African pigs and mongooses next spring. Exact species has not been named. It contains a new pen, new animal stable with flat roof accessible to visitors, wooden visitor bridge, pier for keepers and relocation of utility network.
