Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabarceno Parque de la naturaleza de Cabarceno

Births and other news:
- Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi) foal born at the park!
- The year's first Guinea baboon (Papio papio) has been born at the park.
- An European lowland bison (Bison bonasus bonasus) was born back in January, but forgot to report it over here. :p
- The park's general signae when it comes to educative displays of individual species is being remade entirely throughout the park.
- The new stable that will house the cape buffaloes and maybe the dromedaries and addax is almost finished.
 
News:
- Cristina and Neco the African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana) will leave to Opel Zoo Kronberg as part of the species breeding plans.
This is bittersweet news because Cristina was a special animal for the park. She was born in 2006, damaging her hip at the moment of birth and being unable to stand up on herself. The animal's mother and grandmother tried to help the newly born elephant to stand up, but at those trials, they damaged her left eye and certain points of her ear. Because of this, her family rejected her, so the keeper team bottle-fed her until the age of 8.
Once she was a fully grown animal the team tried to incorporate her into the herd, but it wasn't recognized as part of it. The arrival of a young male that took a liking to Cristina, Jumar, helped the incorporation process. She lived alongside the rest of the herd for the rest of her time at the park, but she mostly liked to hang around by herself socializing mostly with the bulls, since the female individuals rejected her.
In January of 2021, she gave birth to her first calf, Neco, the first third-generation elephant born at the park.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=997516764952070
 
Recent births:
- A Watusi (Bos primigenius taurus) calf was born in early May.
- The year's first Chapman's zebra (Equus quagga chapmani) was born in the middle of May.
- The birth count of European brown bears (Ursus arctos arctos) this year is around 10 individuals.
- The year's second Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) calf was born recently.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1362048894653182
 
I find it funny (and sad at the same time) that they just estimate their surviving bear cub count.
 
Jana said:
I find it funny (and sad at the same time) that they just estimate their surviving bear cub count.
Click to expand...
To be fair these aren't numbers displayed by the park itself, but rather what visitors have seen in their visits and what they have posted in the zoosdelmundo forum.
I'd guess keepers and the zoo's staff can make give us better data, but the lack of management within the exhibit is very telling. The park's biggest flaw without a doubt as for now.
 
News from over the summer:
- Indian gaur (Bos gaurus gaurus) calf born! The herd is now up to seven individuals.
- Another Watusi (Bos primigenius taurus) calf was born.
- Second Chapman's zebra (Equus quagga chapmani) foal of the year born at the park.
- Eight Kafue flats lechwe (Kobus leche kafuensis) calfs have been born through the year!
- A new Addax (Addax nasomaculatus) has joined the existing herd, joining the three females that already lived there and growing the group to four individuals.
- Apparently, the park is due to receive some female Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) to accompany the male that currently lives at the park.
- Parkings, roads, and observatories are being renovated. The fencing at the Chapman's zebras is being renovated to suit the new fencing style that the park has been doing in other exhibits, replacing the current rotten wood one.
- Even more of the park's exhibits have received new signs with the new design (Ostriches, elands, cape buffaloes, wallabies, emus, waterbucks, lynxes, and wolves to be precise. The other species that got new signage a couple of months before were the cheetahs, giraffes, watusis and bison).
 
An hemorrhagic disease sneaks into Cabárceno:
- Back in September VEHD (Viral Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease) sneaked into the park and killed one of the Eurasian elks, a red deer buck, and a male common waterbuck, and it is suspected that a Kafue flats lechwe and a red deer doe have died of the same disease as well.

La enfermedad hemorrágica se cuela en Cabárceno
-
This is very sad news, especially for the death of one of the elks that came back in 2021. A regular visitor to the park has mentioned he hasn't seen none of the elk for their last visits, so there are chances that the species has fully left the park :(
 
News:
- Two female Gemsboks (Oryx gazella) arrived to the park from Sweden! I'm guessing
Kolmården. The park's group is now up to three individuals after several years of the male being alone.
- A Guinea baboon (Papio papio) was born!
- The Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) pair is now down to a single individual.
- The last remaining Eurasian elk (Alces alces alces) has left the park. :(
Cabárceno no longer houses this species, unfortunate news. They were definitely my most favorite recent introduction. Aran Park apparently also got some moose, so some other zoo houses them at a Spanish level. The exhibit they used to live at is now home to three Dromedaries (Camelus dromedarius), the ones that used to live alongside the addaxes until they introduced the cape buffaloes into their enclosure.
 
SivatheriumGuy said:
Yes! Amazing news! Cabárceno has never been too lucky with rhino births, and since Mayayi left last year the paddock was feeling in need of another individual. Hope we get some calfs soon or later!
Click to expand...
The situation will not change unless Cabarceno swap out the male Cosme for an unrelated proven bull (female Zola is his mother).
 
News:
- The president of Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga, announced today at FITUR an "unprecedented" investment plan in public tourist infrastructure, which will reach 60 million euros during this term, and will concentrate 15 million euros in projects this year.
The ones that concern us are the developments that are "in the oven" for Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabárceno. The projects for the park are the transformation of the elephant facilities with an investment of 4 million euros (maybe the project that Elephant Business made back in 2021?), the rehabilitation of the old sea lion space and the expansion of the reptile house, creating a specific area for crocodiles "unique in the entire continent" and that "will attract thousands of tourists." (This was also rumoured about last year, and might be coming sooner than we thought. I wonder what they mean by unique in the entire continent, I really don't know what they can be planning).
Dia de Cantabria FITUR plan inversiones sin precedentes

- Coincidentally, this Sunday, January 28, the reptile house closes for maintenance for a period of, in principle, two weeks. Apparently, the final completion date will depend on the progress of the works, so it might be the start of the renovation mentioned above.
El reptilario de Cabárceno cierra por mantenimiento - Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabárceno
 
News:
- The reptile house has re-opened but there isn't any information about what has been done. Despite that, recently the park's webpage has added a new species to the lineup, the Oriental rat snake. The individual sheets of the park's webpage don't show the species's scientific name (a really annoying thing in my opinion) and the picture chosen does not look like the species I mentioned, but the description given and range map shown in it are the exact description of Ptyas mucosa. If that's the given case, that would make Cabárceno one of the three European institutions that exhibit this species! (The other ones being the Moscow zoo in Russia and Grodno Zoo in Belarus)
Won't take anything for granted until I see a picture of the animals or see it myself, but that would be a good addition to the park's reptile house.

Reapertura del reptilario de Cabárceno - Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabárceno
Serpiente rata asiática - Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabárceno
 
Zookeeper Diego said:
Cabárceno will have a new species next to the baboon enclosure. The new species will be African wild dogs that will arrive in the spring of 2025. The park has to build two buildings, one with shelters and another area for work and access, with a budget of 180,000 euros.

Cabárceno tendrá una nueva especie en el parque, el licaón
Click to expand...
Great news! The park used to house African wild dogs until the cheetahs arrived, very glad to see the park will be regaining the species! It was rumored the enclosure they will be going to be housed at was going to be renovated to be the new hyena exhibit, but I see this as a great inclusion!
 
This summer i will be staying in Bilbao for a week. Is this zoo a full day or a couple of hours ? It seems huge, but it doesn't seem to have a lot of species.
 
Sneeuwpanter said:
This summer i will be staying in Bilbao for a week. Is this zoo a full day or a couple of hours ? It seems huge, but it doesn't seem to have a lot of species.
Click to expand...
It might not be as species-rich as any major zoo, but if you want to see everything the sheer size of the park itself and the crowds that might or might not happen to be at the park the day of your visit do end up making the zoo a whole day zoo. Even more if you plan on visiting just by foot, in which case you won't be able to access one of the exhibits.
Depending on the date the park can get very crowded and by that very annoying to visit.
 
Thanks, I will be visiting in July. How many km are the footpaths ? The paddocks feel huge. At 750Ha it's 5x the size of Safaripark Beekse Bergen.

Can you use the car to get around ? There don't see drivethough exhibits. Planning my vacation i do hope to fit in a visit to Potes. We don't minder driving a lot and making long days off it, but it has to be within the realm of possebility.

We will spend another full day driving through the Picos Europa, so if you have another tip to possibly combine with the zoo i would love to hear it.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top