Zoos with the Best Cat Collection

Are you certain there was a Jungle Cat in there? I wasn't aware of that.

 

Yes, I was there for a research in the Alfred Brehm Haus and I worked for two days with Christian Kern (Carnivore curator of the Tierpark). There were two jungle cats, but the curator told me that they are only temporarily at the Tierpark, because they are going to another german zoo during the renovation work of the Alfred Brehm Haus.

 

Thanks for confirmation, I didn't realise there were Jungle Cats there (couldn't find on Zootierliste and weren't there when I visited in 2015) -I'm keen to see a Jungle Cat as it's about the only cat species currently in Europe I've never seen. Unfortunately this year's foreign trips are already planned and they don't include Berlin.

 

Because they are part of the new project for the Alfred Brehm Haus, but now the works in the indoor/outdoor exhibits of the right wing of the house make the temporary relocation necessary.
In the coming days I'm going to upload in the media section a lot of photographs that I took over there.

 

I’ve done Iberian lynx in December 2016 at Madrid, and I too did jungle cat on Sunday at Jihlava. Southern tigrina eludes me, however!

 

I’m hoping to be in France around either August or September time and so the former would tie in with this; Dortmund has been on my long term list for visiting for a number of years now.

 

The Prague zoo surprised me with their collection of cats. I saw:
- Asian lion
- Siberian tiger
- Malaysian tiger
- Sumatran tiger
- Amur leopard
- Javan leopard
- Clouded leopard
- Caracal
- Ocelot
- Fishing cat
- Jaguarundi
- Palawan leopard cat
- Oncilla