Zoo Hodonín Zoo Hodonín news

Last year the Chestnut-eared aracari's bred for the first time at Hodonin. This year the pair laid a clutch of 4 eggs in Mid-June and in July 2 of the eggs hatched. At the end of August both left the nest - 2 males.

 

Does anyone know the name and origins of Hodonins current jaguar/s?

 

Male Tito (black, 9) came from Sankt Petersburg in Russia
Female Grácie (yellow, 12) came from Saarbrücken in Germany

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The zoo has a young female white tiger circa 2 - 3 months old. The animal was recently seized by custom officers due to complete lack of legal documents. The ministry placed it temporary in Hodonin zoo but they dont have space for it once it grows. So they search for a permanent holder (should have zoo licence). Is in good shape, seems healthy and show no big deformations like crossed eyes. If anybody is interested...

Samičku bílého tygra zabavili celníci, dočasný domov našla v hodonínské zoo - iDNES.cz

 

The whole group of 6 green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus) was sent to somewhere in Lithuania. It were last animals of this species in Czechia it seems at least ZTL comes back blank. Their space in monkey house will get some repairs and get new inhabitants (lemurs maybe?).

New bird species on show:
- common rosefinch
- booted eagle

New bird species, but kept off-show at the moment
- northern lapwing

Planned new bird species:
- Eurasian hoopoe
- European roller
- red-footed falcon

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The zoo plans to build new entrance building and reconstruct surrounding areas. This will lead to temporary closure of the whole zoo for visitors from ca October 2023 till spring 2024.

Zoo Hodonín čekají změny za desítky milionů, bude ale dočasně uzavřená

 

Not lemurs. But King colobus. A 2-years old male from Jihlava. And young female should arrive from Vienna Schönbrunn soon.

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A quiet nice addition. It’s nice to see this species get a boost in holding numbers.

 

The white tiger was sent to a private rescue station in Maßweiler/Germany.

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A 15-years old male collared mangabey arrived from Münster last month. Female for him is expected to come any day now.

Nice new species in Czech zoos.

 

A female mangabey arrived from Barcelona. They are already together.

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Chapman´s zebra colt was born and it´s a boy.

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The zoo handed over 9 Lesser kestrels (Falco naumanni) hatched at the colony in zoo´s aviary this spring to organisation Green Balkans. They will be prepaired for reintroduction into Bulgarian nature in their centrum in Stara Zagora.

Lesser Kestrel distribution range significantly contracted in 20th centrury in Europe and it got extirped both in Bulgaria (and Czechia and some other countries). Bulgaria decided to re-establish this species by releases of captive-bred birds and succeeded - this species breeds again in the wild since year 2020 there. 3 Czech zoos joined the program and supply their chicks, Hodonin seems to be the most prolific one.

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A white-handed gibbon born on 4th of February. It´s got dark-colored fur like its mother.

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A red-footed tortoise hatched at the end of February.

Hodonin keeps this species since 2021 but the tortoises are kept back stage and are only visible during contact programs.

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The zoo has united all its chimpansees into a single group few days ago. That led to a lot of aggression and noise but so far no bigger injury.

Hodonin keeps following chimpansees:
- 1,0 Fáben born 1979 somewhere in Sweden (had lived in many zoos already - Leipzig, Bratislava, Bojnice, Brno) - habitualy unable to breed
- 0,1 Gina born ca 1979 (ex-circus animal from Hungary, lived in Plzen, Brno)
- 0,1 Maryša born 1995 in Poland (lived in Plzen, Brno)
- 0,1 Tea born 2001 in Liberec
- 0,1 Judy born 2001 in Liberec

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