The zoo won two CAZA awards... First the Thomas R Award for their mixed white rhino, red river hog, waterbuck, and marabou stork exhibit. The second was the Professional of the Year Award which went to veterinary technician Rock Boily.
Two female Eastern grey kangaroos, Heather and Blue, are due to arrive soon from Fort Wayne to breed with Kenzi. His son Zumba will be leaving for Children's Zoo at Celebration Square in Michigan to join a bachelor mob. African spotted necked otter, Rufus, was sadly put down last week due to his deteriorating health thanks to old age. He was just over 20. His mate Dafina is adjusting well to his loss. The zoo has also offered a temporary home to 2 lions and 2 Amur tigers from Cherry Brook as they await paperwork to be moved south. They have arrived and are on rotation with the zoos lions and tigers. They are expecting to transfer them come spring.
Interesting that the two lions from Cherrybrook are actually siblings of one of the Granby Lions. Sounds like they have enough room to have all the tigers on display at a time. Nice to see one zoo helping out another after it closed.
Granby had an oops moment. One of the flamingos escaped and like any good Canadian headed right for Tim Horton's where it was safely and calmly captured by its keepers who no doubt stopped for a Timmies before returning it to its enclosure. How Canadian? Watch: Flamingo escapes Quebec zoo, visits Tim Hortons parking lot - UPI.com
The zoo will apparently be opening a new Animblocks exhibit next year. Basically life sized Lego animals. As a Lego fan from childhood I think its a neat exhibit to add probably just for the year but who knows maybe longer. The example lioness they showed a photo of on Facebook looks incredible! Where can I get a job putting together Lego for a living? That sounds fun!
The zoo will be phasing out its African Elephants. There is no timeline or selected home for the trio as of yet. Quebec zoo to move elephants to new home as senator puts forth bill to ban captivity | Globalnews.ca
That's a fascinating video, because in this article it appears that the zoo is getting rid of its three African Elephants in the next few years. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mont...=A zoo in Quebec plans,for the last few years.
I know before the pandemic they had two females, Kumi and Ushindi who would be 6 and 5 respectively. At that time they were seeking a male as both girls were super valuable. No clue if they got one.
There is a new kangaroo joey named Holly. The rainbow lorikeet aviary is open to the public again as Avian flu concerns subside. The zoo did post about hoping to get dholes in the near future. It was a random Facebook post but I wonder if something is about to happen there. They are the ones who said they hope to have them in the near future but then again its a translation from French and sometimes its not accurate.
Does the zoo no longer have serow? It was on their website in June, but no longer seems to be. I also want to confirm it closes at the beginning of september?
Other 2022 News: On January 4th, the zoo officially announced the arrival of (0.3) eastern grey kangaroos named Blue and Heather (there is a baby in Heather's pouch) from Fort Wayne's Children Zoo in Texas. As @TZFan previously reported, the baby is known as Holly. Accueil de deux nouvelles pensionnaires dans la traversée australienne | Bienvenue à Blue et Heather, deux kangourous nous arrivant tout droit du Fort Wayne Children's Zoo, aux États-Unis. Les deux femelles seront intégrées... | By Zoo de Granby | Facebook On January 27th, the zoo announced that the former general manager of the facility, Paul Gosselin, has been promoted to CEO as the facility made a new position, Vice President, for the former CEO Samuel Grenier. Log into Facebook Nominations au Zoo de Granby On February 3rd, the zoo announced that a (0.1) red panda named Kayah has passed away at age 14. Log into Facebook On May 19th, the zoo announced that they have released (0.0.20) bats (species(s) not specified) back into the wild on May 18th. Log into Facebook Remise en liberté de chauves-souris On July 18th, the zoo announced they have acquired a new species at the facility, wildebeest.* https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1103179650629023 On July 29th, it was announced that the (1.1) African lions and (1.1) Amur tigers have been transferred to the Popcorn Park Zoo in New Jersey. https://patch.com/new-jersey/tomsriver/s/ichev/4-new-big-cats-come-popcorn-park-zoo *I do not speak French-Canadian and the only thing that mentions the arrival of wildebeest is a 10-minute video in French-Canadian. If anyone can speak that language and could answer these questions that would be much appreciated; How many animals did the zoo acquire, what kind of wildebeest did the zoo acquire, and where did they get the wildebeest from?
According to the video and to an article in french, the zoo acquired two wildebeest, Eugénie (F, 6 years old) and Louis (M, 3 years old) from Parc Safari (Hemmingford, QC). They live with the two rhinos, red river hogs and marabou storks, and they replaced the waterbucks which were only a loan from another zoo. The article said that the zoo is planning to acquire African cichlids and a type of bird to live with the hippos. There are also plans for the Japanese serows to live with red-crowned cranes in a new exhibit. The article: La cohabitation en vogue au Zoo de Granby I was at the zoo last week so if any of you have a question I will be happy to answer!
Thanks for answering my questions (btw @TinoPup you should read this post to see where the serows are).
On September 13th, the zoo announced they have acquired a (1.0) Grant's zebra named Mshangao which will be placed on exhibit with the facility's female Grant's zebras at a later date. Log into Facebook
On September 14th, the zoo announced that a (0.0.1) blue-headed lorikeet was hatched on August 31st. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3155438051339701
On October 22nd, the zoo announced that they acquired a (0.1) African lion named Kamaria from the Woodland Park Zoo in Washington on October 19th. Log into Facebook
Interesting move bringing Kamaria to Granby. She cant breed with Congo, he is considered generic and is not allowed to breed. Kamaria is pretty darn valuable. She could have stayed in Seattle and bred with their incoming male like her sister. If they had sent her to Calgary instead she would have had their males who are very valuable and not breeding with their girls who are not valuable at all.
