Two giant panda cubs were born just after 1 AM this morning. Zoo de Beauval Naissance de DEUX pandas géants cette nuit ! - Beauval Actus
More recent births : 2 dwarf mongooses, 1 sitatunga, 1 bush thick-knee, 2 blue-winged gooses, 10 scarlet ibisses, 6 common black kites, 4 abdim's storks, 5 african spoonbills and 1 female ocellate river stingray. Moreover the zoo opened in the last weeks a new nursery for frogs and fishes where you can seen mostly poison frogs and a pair of catsharks. This new nursery is located at the end of the gorilla and stingrays greenhouse. Saint-Aignan - La nurserie des grenouilles, pour tout savoir des batraciens au zoo de Beauval
The attendance at the zoo for this summer was incredible. The zoo welcomed 301.900 visitors in July (the best july month in history) and I heard on TV that August saw 440.000 others coming so a total of near 742.000 persons in 2 months !
Great news : the zoo has submitted a planning application for the construction of an off-show local wildlife conservation centre. The new building will be constructed 1 km far from the zoo and will be 500 square meters large (with care rooms, operating room and a lab). 7 employees will work there including two vets. They will care of the local injured fauna (5.000 animals expected each year) in order to cure and release the most of the animals. I suppose that the zoo will work with local NGO such as LPO (french member of Birdlife International). Cost will be between 1,5 and 1,7 million euros. Opening is expected for late 2022/early 2023.
Another good news : Akili, the bull elephant, met the females for the first time. We don't know more about but the zoo said that a next episode of the zoo series "Un oeil en coulisse" will focussed on this meeting.
Alan Roocroft has already posted the video of the first meeting. I hope Akili will sire the females. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=791962461482598
As far as I know, there's probably only Ashanti who could breed. Maybe also N'Dala but it would be surprising because she's 31 years old and she had her only calf, Rungwe, 9 years ago. The other females seem to be too old to breed. Among the 4 old females, only Tana has bred in the past, her last calf was born in 2007 (it died the day of its birth).
On the 22nd of August a male Eastern bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) was born, he was given the name Kimbo. Source: Instagram of ZooParc de Beauval (18/09/2021) https://www.instagram.com/p/CT7b34FIvZO/
Recent births : 6 scarlet ibis, 2 de Brazza's monkeys, 2 Philippine sailfin lizards, 1 green anole, 3 red-bellied tamarins and 2 grey-crowned cranes.
Pachamama has been released into the wild, with six other andean condors, last September 17th. Video about the release : https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=400723078316596
On the 11th of September a male Blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus taurinus) was born, he was given the name Tanguy. Source: Instagram of ZooParc de Beauval (13/10/2021) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU7yxi2IVBY/
The latest newsletter indicates also the births of a new Douc (after the births of the first months of 2021), and a Puma.
For now I know only small projects like the refurbishing of some aviaries near the entrance. Bigger projects remain possible for next year.
The contest for naming the panda cubs is open! In other news, Kylian Mbappe appears to have 'adopted' one of the cubs; good news for the zoo...
