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Two of the three tigers born in 2019 at Safaripark Beekse Bergen moved to Knuthenborg Safari Park in Denmark last Monday. They are the males Radames and Amneris.

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I hadn’t used google translate yet but I wanted to ask, which part of the park did the recent fire burn? Are the animals, staff, and guests ok?

Explosies bij enorme brand Beekse Bergen, bekijk hier de foto's

That's terrible! I hope there were no injured people (and also no injured animals).

The fire, resulting from a gas leak, destroyed the main building of the vacation park, which is located near but some distance away from the safari park.

No-one was injured, guests were not evacuated either. No animals were injured, although some were taken inside due to the smoke. The park remained open as foreseen.

So all in all, however terrible this is, the outcome is the best one could hope for.

Grote brand woedt in vakantiepark Beekse Bergen in Nederland
Bekijk hier de enorme ravage na de brand bij vakantiepark Beekse Bergen
 
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Frankly, everyone knows Calimero is a dysfunctional bull and he has never bred successfully here and the place deserves a new and proven bull now more than ever!

It is a waste of valuable space to have a bull on location not doing the job for years (Calimero has been around a really long time here now) and we remain in danger of losing the window of opportunity on the cows at yet another collection.

BTW: The number of places were this is the case is actually staggering and a major stumbling block for breeding the African elephants to proceed. Politics and local management at times seem to prevent progress being made more quickly.
 
Frankly, everyone knows Calimero is a dysfunctional bull and he has never bred successfully here and the place deserves a new and proven bull now more than ever!

It is a waste of valuable space to have a bull on location not doing the job for years (Calimero has been around a really long time here now) and we remain in danger of losing the window of opportunity on the cows at yet another collection.
That is why they want to get a second bull. Maybe when Calimero gets competition from another bull, he will take more interest in the cows again.

Calimero has already successfully mated once in the Beekse Bergen, but that young was born dead.
 
That is why they want to get a second bull. Maybe when Calimero gets competition from another bull, he will take more interest in the cows again.

I wonder if it can be literally true? That some male elephants must see older bulls to learn how to mate properly? Female elephants greatly benefit from watching older cows to become competent mothers, and male and female apes generally must watch older role models to reproduce. Could it be the same with elephant bulls?
 
I wonder if it can be literally true? That some male elephants must see older bulls to learn how to mate properly? Female elephants greatly benefit from watching older cows to become competent mothers, and male and female apes generally must watch older role models to reproduce. Could it be the same with elephant bulls?

I don't think either Elephants or Apes usually actually need to 'learn' by watching others mate, but they may well be stimulated by the presence of same sex rivals.
 
I don't think either Elephants or Apes usually actually need to 'learn' by watching others mate, but they may well be stimulated by the presence of same sex rivals.
From early onset of development cow and bull elephants have differing trajectories whereby males are more challenging/dominating behaviours and females more socially emphatically inclined behaviours come to the fore. In the very same way that around 10-15 years of age the bulls become less attached to their maternal herd and associate with conspecifics in age as well as looking to copy older bulls and experience their presence and behaviours towards same sex as well as in breeding / mating adult cows vis a vis females staying in their maternal herds and developing their socially competent and nurturing sides more fully with experienced mothers who have calved multiple times. As such, bulls and cows that have not experienced those behaviours when younger or have developed in social isolation will never be that competent in adult life.
 
A female black rhino has arrived at the Safari Park. Her name is Ebi and she comes from a Czech zoo. Earlier this year male Hodari moved from the Safari Resort Beekse Bergen to a new enclosure at the Safari Park. With the arrival of the female Beekse Bergen will contribute to the breeding program of the black rhinoceros.

Source: Safaripark Beekse Bergen verwelkomt vrouwelijke zwarte neushoorn Ebi

 
A female black rhino has arrived at the Safari Park. Her name is Ebi and she comes from a Czech zoo. Earlier this year male Hodari moved from the Safari Resort Beekse Bergen to a new enclosure at the Safari Park. With the arrival of the female Beekse Bergen will contribute to the breeding program of the black rhinoceros.

Source: Safaripark Beekse Bergen verwelkomt vrouwelijke zwarte neushoorn Ebi

From a Czech zoo is rather euphemism for Zoo Dvur Kralove, the only zoo in the region to maintain a breeding herd of major importance (and hugely successful at that). Popularly she is known as Emilka (Mweru x Etosha, born October 2017).
 
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