https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvell...ranby-achalandage-projet-tourisme-cantons-est it seems the upgrades will include a new education pavilion a new hippo, lion and giraffe habitat
According to the zoo's social media accounts (and what appears to be a fairly confident in-app translation service), a male Amur leopard cub was delivered via C-section on either June 14 or 15th. It sounds like this was the second c-section delivery for the mom, Megan. There is video on their facebook and instagram accounts, though I'd caution you to not have lunch right before or plan on having it after.
The zoo has hatched its first Andean Condor chick to first time parents. Granby Zoo sees first hatching of an Andean condor egg! - Sherbrooke Record
Snow leopard, Snowflake, has been spayed to help with housing daughter Elsa, new breeding male Kang and any future cubs.
Female mandrill, Layla, has been moved to Calgary. The lions have moved to the tiger exhibit as theirs undergoes renos.
One of the zoo's female Rothschild's Giraffe's, named Kisumu, has sadly passed away at the age of 25. Very sad to hear, she was a beautiful animal. More information can be found here. In other excited news, the zoo has also has five Cownose Ray pups born over the past few weeks. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=291167768267493
It's been announced a female african elephant will be arriving from the states to either Granby or Parc Safari. Personally speaking,I'd say Granby would be better breeding wise, as Tutume's younger then Junot, though I can tell who should get her facility-wise.
This really shouldn't be posted yet, as this is still an unsubstantiated piece of information. However I will address idea location of any potential cows to go, and that is to Parc Safari. Both bulls are INCREDIBLY genetically valuable unrepresented founders to the North American population, however the priority should definitely be placed on breeding Junnot. He is *at least* 16 years older than Granbys Tutume, so emphasis should be placed on breeding him. This absolutely rediculous notion of "retiring" older bulls from breeding should be completely abolished, it's an ass backwards management decision that seems to be exclusively North American, that has relegated a number of INCREDIBLY valuable bulls to never breeding, instead being stuck with old, nonbreeding cows. It's a crying shame. Additionally, he is completely genetically unique, while Tutumes father and 5 siblings are all still alive and well in Europe, with his father and 3 half sisters all breeding.
The zoo acquired more land for expansion last December. Among its new additions will be dholes. Zoo de Granby: plus de 4 M$ pour deux terrains The article mentions something calls "saros", which I do not know what those are. Translation error, perhaps?
Saro is Japanese Serow, which the zoo already has. The "proper" name in french is saro du Japon, you won't find any search results using English search engines unless its the full name.
@Hyak_II Perhaps the zoo is getting another species of serow, or get more individuals for breeding (though I'd like to know how many the zoo has currently). Either way, i'm more interested in the prospect of the zoo getting dholes (which I never got the chance to see when I was at Toronto).
I highly doubt it, but you never know I suppose. I know they're actively breeding them, so who knows, lol. As far as I can tell they have at least 4 right now, but its a little tricky since them and Calgary seem to have multiple animals with the same names, so its a little hard to track Also I agree, I'm quite exited for the Dholes as well! Fingers crossed for a breeding pair for potential for expanding Canadian holders more in the future!
More news on Granby's future plans, specifically an offcampus reserve for geriatric animals sometime in the next four years, similar to Calgary's. Le Zoo de Granby va créer une réserve pour les animaux vieillissants et la recherche scientifique (Highly offtopic: Do we properly refer to the zoo as de Granby or just Granby, or is this just semantics?)
