7 Black wood turtles (Rhinoclemmys funerea) arrived. They are already living in the jungle of Gondwanaland.
Free-ranging animals within Gondwanaland - Vietnamese small flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus condorensis) - Australian green tree frog (Ranoidea coecrulea) - File-eared tree frog (Polypedates otilophus) - Greenhouse frog (Eleutherodactylus planirostris) - Mission golden-eyed frog (Trachycephalus resinifictrix) - Sambava tomato frog (Dyscophus guineti) - Spot-legged tree frog (Polypedates megacephalus) - Yellow stream frog (Sylvirana cubitalis) - African pygmy-goose (Nettapus auritus) - Asian fairy-bluebird (Irena puella) - Black crake (Zapornia flavirostra) - Blue-backed grassquit (Volatinia jacarina) - Blue-throated piping-guan (Pipile cumanensis) - Brahminiy starling (Sturnia pagodarum) - Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) - Crested partridge (Rollulus rouloul) - Cuban grassquit (Phonipara canora) - Fulvous whistling-duck (Dendrocygna bicolor) - Great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) - Hartlaub’s turaco (Tauraco hartlaubi) - Kilimanjaro White-eye (Zosterops poliogastrus eurycricotus) - Lesser brazilian teal (Amazonetta brasiliensis brasiliensis) - Madagascar crested ibis (Lophotibis cristata) - Masked lapwing (Vanellus miles) - Nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica) - Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis) - Pied Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula bicolor) - Radjah shelduck (Radjah radjah) - Red fody (Foudia madagascariensis) - Red-whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) - Snowy-crowned robin-chat (Cossypha niveicapilla) - Subittern (Erypyga helias) - Victoria crowned-pigeon (Goura victoria) - White-crowned robin-chat (Cossypha albicapillus) - Black wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys funerea) - Chinese water dragon (Physignathus cocincinus) - Common green iguana (Iguana iguana) - Cuban brown anole (Anolis sagrei) - Greater Madagascar day gecko (Phelsuma grandis) - Mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris) and several specied of fish in the „jungle river“
Good luck seeing all of them if you ever go, I'd imagine some of them are virtually impossible to see in practice given the size of the place. I kept my eyes out and looked around in suitable areas when I went, and only saw three of the herp species and missed a number of the birds.
Sixth Scimitar-horned oryx (1,0) was born at May 1st. Western chimpanzee female FRAUKJE (44) gave birth to a daughter at May 1st - it is group member No. 22.
Unfortunately orang-utan (Pongo abelii) female Rima (*02.08.2019, BIMBO x PINI) died from a short severe illness. Her older brother SUAQ (*14.05.2009, BIMBO x PADANA) moved to the Ape quarantine building to prepare him to leave the zoo.
Why were parrots included in the walkthrough if the new Seal and Penguin habitat?Was their exhibit always there,new or slightly improved?
The parrot avaries for Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus, Ara militaris mexicana and Ara macao (part of the old bird complex) will disappear during the next years. The new parrot aviary as a part of "Feuerland" (Tierra del fuego) will replace the old smaller aviaries.
When is that project now planned for? Any news on what timeframe Asian forests will take up (after CoVid19)?
Fuerland is the aforementioned project for South American semi-aquatic animals(penguins and seals)but the graphic shows a parrot aviary,which was not explained in the description.I do not know of Asian Forests.
The construction works for Tierra del fuego already started in spring - it is planned for 2021/2022. When the running projects (aquarium and Tierra del fuego) are finished further projects will follow containing Wild dogs, anoas, babirusas, musk deers, thamins etc.