It seems the obvious way to use this extra space. As you said, if they get more Eland to keep the 'rescue' one company, they would need space for them too. Perhaps add a gazelle species or something else smaller for contrast with the larger animals as well?
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It seems the obvious way to use this extra space. As you said, if they get more Eland to keep the 'rescue' one company, they would need space for them too. Perhaps add a gazelle species or something else smaller for contrast with the larger animals as well?
Don't the cape buffaloes live in a pretty small separate paddock alongside the rest of savannah animals? It would make sense to move them to the elephant paddock, giving them more space and maybe mixing them with the eland. The addition of a gazelle species would be wonderful.
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I visited the park yesterday, and we decided to go to the "Thai All-You-Can-Eat Buffet" restaurant in the Mersus Emergo.
It was my first time eating there and enjoying the vivarium there. There is a rare"Yellow-bellied puffing snake" (Spilotes Sulphureus) on display in the restaurant. Only visible to the restaurant's guests.
It is not listed on ZTL (I will add it in a few seconds).
The new lesser bird-of-paradise is on display (male visible, female backstage) and not sure it has been mentioned here but the two Toco Toucans in Tropicalia have been replaced by two green aracari (Pteroglossus viridis). I saw one "brown" and one "black" neck, so probably 1,1
The Toco probably moved somewhere else in the park (I didn't go to the Oasis)
It was my first time eating there and enjoying the vivarium there. There is a rare"Yellow-bellied puffing snake" (Spilotes Sulphureus) on display in the restaurant. Only visible to the restaurant's guests.
It is not listed on ZTL (I will add it in a few seconds).
The new lesser bird-of-paradise is on display (male visible, female backstage) and not sure it has been mentioned here but the two Toco Toucans in Tropicalia have been replaced by two green aracari (Pteroglossus viridis). I saw one "brown" and one "black" neck, so probably 1,1
The Toco probably moved somewhere else in the park (I didn't go to the Oasis)
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The puffing snake was listed as a former holding. It used to be kept in the reptile house but someone must have assumed the species was gone, good to know it is not.
I've moved that listing back into current holdings multiple times because of people making that assumption; ditto for the Chinese Giant Salamander listing.
The three pandas born at Pairi Daiza, Tian Bao (almost 8 years old) and twins Bao Di and Bao Mei (almost 4 years old), will leave Pairi Daiza in the coming autumn.
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The zoo recently revealed that they received two female corsac foxes named Menza and Selenga.
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Instagram of Pairi Daiza (19/02/2024)
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Instagram of Pairi Daiza (19/02/2024)
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Two sisters from Ménagerie/Jardin des Plantes in Paris. They are in the former "Raccoon Dog" enclosure in the Asian area. The Raccoon dogs are backstage until their transfer to the new/future Japanese zone.
A pair of white-cheeked turacos that was seized by authorities has moved into an aviary in the Oasis following the completion of their quarantine.
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Pairi Daiza's shoebills have started to come outside earlier than usual on some days, given that Belgium is experiencing some quite pleasant, fairly warm for the season and sunny spring days lately.
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Pairi Daiza's shoebills have started to come outside earlier than usual on some days, given that Belgium is experiencing some quite pleasant, fairly warm for the season and sunny spring days lately.
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The new farm area and the Farmhouse Lodges have been opened. This area houses now greater rheas alongside the already present domestic animals.
Ça y est, les portes vous sont ouvertes! Vous l'attendiez et avez fait preuve de patience: la nouvelle Mini-Ferme de Pairi Daiza est désormais accessible à tous. Agrandie, toute coquette, accueillant de nouvelles familles et de nouveaux pensionnaires, équipée de nombreuses structures pour les animaux, elle vous permettra d'observer et rencontrer de très nombreuses espèces (chèvres, nandous, wallaby, lapins, poules, mini-cochons, daims, maras, etc.). On vous partage ici de premières images | Pairi Daiza | Pairi Daiza · Original audio
Ça y est, les portes vous sont ouvertes! Vous l'attendiez et avez fait preuve de patience: la nouvelle Mini-Ferme de Pairi Daiza est désormais accessible à tous. Agrandie, toute coquette, accueillant de nouvelles familles et de nouveaux pensionnaires, équipée de nombreuses structures pour les animaux, elle vous permettra d'observer et rencontrer de très nombreuses espèces (chèvres, nandous, wallaby, lapins, poules, mini-cochons, daims, maras, etc.). On vous partage ici de premières images | Pairi Daiza | Pairi Daiza · Original audio
I ought to say, I don’t like how the farm is surrounded with hotel balconies instead of wooden fences as I remember from my visit.
Wallabies and rheas seem to be both an odd yet clever addition. I say clever since, as far as I know, greater rheas and bennets wallabies are kept as hobby species in farm so them being next to traditional domestics isn’t too jarring to me.
@KevinB has PD ever previously keep white bennets wallabies before?
Wallabies and rheas seem to be both an odd yet clever addition. I say clever since, as far as I know, greater rheas and bennets wallabies are kept as hobby species in farm so them being next to traditional domestics isn’t too jarring to me.
@KevinB has PD ever previously keep white bennets wallabies before?
According to ZTL they previously had this species around 2013, but I personally don't remember where they kept them.
They had Bennett's wallabies for a long time, even back in the Parc Paradisio days. The species was originally kept in an enclosure near the lake under the monumental stairs, which is now an extension of the playground. In 2011 the wallabies moved to the then-new Australian "Mura Mura Territory" zone, in which they lived on the current site of the Tasmanian devil enclosure.
The thread at Laafsekikkers has some more images of the new farm area, including a photo of the former ticket checkpoint and entrance area that now houses pigs. It is also mentioned that the former main gift shop will now be used as an animal building.
Nieuwstopic Pairi Daiza (2024) - Pagina 11 - Laafsekikkers.be
The thread also mentions that vinaceous-breasted amazons (Amazona vinacea) are now on display in the Oasis.
Nieuwstopic Pairi Daiza (2024) - Pagina 11 - Laafsekikkers.be
The thread also mentions that vinaceous-breasted amazons (Amazona vinacea) are now on display in the Oasis.
Birth of a Japanese macaque.
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Pairi Daiza's post about the vinaceous-breasted amazons.
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After this weekend African elephants Suzy and Gitana will no longer be publicly visible as they enter their quarantine before moving to the UK.
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Pairi Daiza's post about the vinaceous-breasted amazons.
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After this weekend African elephants Suzy and Gitana will no longer be publicly visible as they enter their quarantine before moving to the UK.
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According to a recent post in a Facebook group the white-cheeked turacos in the Oasis have gotten the company of a blue-throated piping guan (Pipile cumanensis).
Pairi Daiza / WIKI Daizen | Une pénélope à gorge bleue à rejoint la volière des touracos à joues blanches. | Facebook
According to a post at the Laafsekikkers Facebook page Pairi Daiza now has Valais blacknose sheep in the new paddock area around the old abbey tower, and plumed whistling ducks in the Oasis.
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Report it to ZTL as an correction please.
Nice to see PD devote an aviary to this endangered Amazon species. There is a recovery program in Brasil for these.
LINK: Amazona vinacea, Vinaceous-breasted Parrot • Loro Parque Fundación
Re: the elephant relocation. The exclosure was unfit for the elderly elephants due to the undulating terrain and medical conditions with elderly elephants and the plan to complete an entire Savannah exhibit with them backfired due to the hilly parts. I think both from an animal welfare point and exclosure it is wholly understandable. Be interesting to know ... what next for this part of PD in future.