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[vogelcommando]

Shipment of animals expected from Singapore, among them :
1-1 Greater mouse deer
Superb starlings
Scarlet ibisses
Roseate spoonbills

 

[DesertRhino150]

Some interesting research with a very interesting animal being conducted at Moscow Zoo - Chinese pygmy dormice (Typhlomys cinereus) are now known to use sonar in a manner similar to a bat.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/video-blind-mouse-navigates-bat

 

[kiang]

The zoo has sent a 7yr old female polar bear to Hannover

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1349650651723421

 

[kiang]

And now behind the scenes of the legendary herp collection.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1364309220257564

 

[Chlidonias]

Some interesting research with a very interesting animal being conducted at Moscow Zoo - Chinese pygmy dormice (Typhlomys cinereus) are now known to use sonar in a manner similar to a bat.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/video-blind-mouse-navigates-bat

vogelcommando made a thread about this too, with a better article in which they were careful to specifically note that echolocation is not confirmed, merely suspected, and that further study is needed.
Vietnamese pygmy dormouse - new info

The article: Dormouse might be first tree-climbing mammal shown to echolocate

 

[vogelcommando]

Intresting : Moscow Zoo's herp stories :

Legends of the Moscow Zoo: Reptilian rumors and killer crocs

 

[kiang]

1.0 Sichuan takin born

В Московском зоопарке родился первый... - Московский зоопарк/Moscow Zoo | Facebook

 

[MikeG]

Interesting recent arrivals in the Bird Section = 3.3 Spice Imperial Pigeons (Ducula myristicivora); the only ones in a European zoo.

 

[MikeG]

And new to Moscow's huge (but largely off-show) Reptile collection = Petter's Chameleons (Furcifer petteri), from northern Madagascar.

 

[kiang]

2 pygmy slow loris born

Московский зоопарк/Moscow Zoo

 

[Fishapod]

Three Eurasian lynx kittens were born in May 2017

У наших рысей родились три котенка

 

[kiang]

1.0 Asian elephant born.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1492500377438447

 

[Kifaru Bwana]

Great news!

Am I correct to believe this is the first birth in Asiatic elephant at Zoo Moskva for a good long time?

 

[Fishapod]

0.1 mountain goat was born in June:
У снежных коз родился детеныш - девочка

 

[Jana]

What is a mountain goat? Sorry, can´t open the link.

 

[aardvark250]

What is a mountain goat? Sorry, can´t open the link.

Going google isn't that hard.

 

[kiang]

What is a mountain goat? Sorry, can´t open the link.

This one is a Rocky Mountain goat

 

[Chlidonias]

Going google isn't that hard.

there are several species of animal which could be termed "mountain goat", especially in translation, so Googling it would only give you possibilities - which doesn't answer the question.

 

[Fishapod]

Male Siberian tiger named Umar has been sent to Denver Zoo:
Тигр Умар из Московского зоопарка отправился в зоопарк Денвера

 

[Fishapod]

Moscow Zoo announced that a young male aardvark from Ekaterinburg will arrive in the end of July. This male will be the first aardvark at the Moscow Zoo. It is planned to house it in the section with nocturnal primates in Primate house.

Впервые в Московском зоопарке появится трубкозуб.