Pairi Daiza the worlds first!!!

I'v heared, the adult, very old male from Zurich will be send to Paradisio to replace the lost breeding male. So maybe that's why Paradiso has send the chicks to Zurich ?
 
And perhaps in turn Zurich could exchange one of their chicks with an unrelated bird from Prague?
 
from what I know, prague is quite reluctant to send their shoebills anywhere.

paradisio is indeed getting a new, older male for the female.
let's hope he likes her as much as the one that died.
(allthough I'm quite pessimistic about that)
 
Forumbully,

Sorry, let me get it straight:

- Both Abu AND Marqub were moved to Zurich.
- A male from Zurich came to Paradisio instead.

Am I right ?
 
And one more question to sooty mangabey;
(though I know this is not the right place to ask since it's a thread in "Parc Paradisio". Sorry about that):

sooty mangabey said:
A female shoebill moved from Walsrode to Wuppertal last week.
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Walsrode had at least 2 female (one had been moved from Ueno/Tokyo a few years ago). Do you know which one ?
 
yes both chicks were moved to Zurich and their old male came to paradisio.

in regard to your walsrode question: as far as I know, they always had a male and a female, but they didn't match. on the contrary even.

A while back, they exchanged an animal with ueno, but I was under the impression that this was to test if another animal would pair up with one of theirs.
 
Thanks, forumbully.
Hope the chicks would live happy days in Zurich, and the widow in Paradisio would love the new guy (to have another baby soon !).

As for the Walsrode female, I've been tracing the one from Ueno since when she was in Ueno. I emailed Walsrode and hope the staff would give me a reply one day..........
 
Zurich shoebills were pinioned, they lived in open exhibit.

I hope Zurich will not pinion new birds...
 
forumbully said:
YES! It's a fact!

the worlds first ever shoebill born in captivity!
at Parc Paradisio in Belgium!!!

I reported earlier that the eggs were infertile.
this was told to me by the staff. literature states that incubation lasts for 30 days. after this period the eggs were candled (also before) but no proof of viability.

staff kept them in the incubator and the day before yesterday the first egg showed cracks. yesterday I got the news the chick had hatched and emerged fully from the egg.
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According to the International Zoo Yearbook Volume 6, page 408 a shoebill was bred at Jardin Zoologique D'Elizabethville, Congo in 1964
 
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