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A lot happened in Berlin Zoo for one year!

- The 25 m tall Rhino Pagoda with four outdoor enclosures for the four Indian Rhinos and underwater viewing is the new beautiful landmark at the zoo. It's a great tribute to the Elephant Pagoda, destroyed in WWII and it's dedicated to the Endangered Species. I was watching Rhino fight and was listening how one big male was calling with very distinctive "roar". Malayan tapir would be much more appropriate Tapir species, but that was probably been said already.

- The new outdoor exhibits for the Big Cats are under construction - The Jaguar will have an island between the Aquarium and the Restaurant, while the Leopards/ Sumatran Tigers will roam around the Deer grounds.

- Creatures of the night line up also changed. Eastern Quoll, Kowari and Echidna are on display now. I saw at least 5 very active Quolls early morning. Boky's baby was a great delight to see and the Oncilla and Margay are not so shy anymore :)

- 3 Brown Bears came back to Berlin at the renovated former Asiatic Black Bear home. The Bear's exhibit is not connected to the Eurasian Wolves (former Arctic) and still looking quite naked, without mach vegetation.
All Bear "glass" exhibits are occupied by the Sloth Bears now while the Polar bear habitat is empty.

- Sadly the last in Europe Bornean Bearded Pig (Rip) and the White-tailed Deers left the zoo. I am not sure if the Deer's habitat will be part of the Leopard/Tiger outdoor exhibits or will get another Deer species. I haven't seen the Black Rhino either, but it is still signed.

- Kirk's Dik Dik is signed together with Gerenuks. I hope will be more visible in the future.

- The whole 3rd floor in Aquarium is closed for renovation now.
 
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twilighter said:
A lot happened in Berlin Zoo for one year!

- The 25 m tall Rhino Pagoda with four outdoor enclosures for the four Indian Rhinos and underwater viewing is the new beautiful landmark at the zoo. It's a great tribute to the Elephant Pagoda, destroyed in WWII and it's dedicated to the Endangered Species. I was watching Rhino fight and was listening how one big male was calling with very distinctive "roar". Malayan tapir would be much more appropriate Tapir species, but that was probably been said already.

- The new outdoor exhibits for the Big Cats are under construction - The Jaguar will have an island between the Aquarium and the Restaurant, while the Leopards/ Sumatran Tigers will roam around the Deer grounds.

- Creatures of the night line up also changed. Eastern Quoll, Kowari and Excidnas are on display now. I saw at least 5 very active Quolls early morning. Boky's baby was a great delight to see and the Oncilla and Margay are not so shy anymore :)

- 3 Brown Bears came back to Berlin at the renovated former Asiatic Black Bear home. The Bear's exhibit is not connected to the Eurasian Wolves (former Arctic) and still looking quite naked, without mach vegetation.
All Bear "glass" exhibits are occupied by the Sloth Bears now while the Polar bear habitat is empty.

- Sadly the last in Europe Bornean Bearded Pig (Rip) and the White-tailed Deers left the zoo. I am not sure if the Deer's habitat will be part of the Leopard/Tiger outdoor exhibits or will get another Deer species. I haven't seen the Black Rhino either, but it is still signed.

- Kirk's Dik Dik is signed together with Gerenuks. I hope will be more visible in the future.

- The whole 3rd floor in Aquarium is closed for renovation now.
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Is the jaguar island gonna be netted over or open-topped? Curious how they'll do containment for a powerful cat like that...
 
Green_mamba said:
What enclosure are the quoll, kowari and echidna in? Did they replace other species or are they mixed with existing species?
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Quolls are at the former Malagasy giant jumping rat exhibit left to the Fennec Fox. Malagasy giant jumping rat is at the former Rusty-spotted cat exhibit now.

Kowari is at the former Sugar glider exhibit right to the Fennec Fox.

Echidna is leaving together with Sugar glider in one of the former Night Monkey ( still at the house) exhibit right to Kinkajou.
 
twilighter said:
A lot happened in Berlin Zoo for one year!

- The 25 m tall Rhino Pagoda with four outdoor enclosures for the four Indian Rhinos and underwater viewing is the new beautiful landmark at the zoo. It's a great tribute to the Elephant Pagoda, destroyed in WWII and it's dedicated to the Endangered Species.
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Yea, but the orginal pagoda was such eye candy. Man 'I miss historical ecxhitecture. I was in Berlin in 2022 but Icould see the bulding being build and it allways kinda looks like somebody build with bricks in minecraft too me. Atleast it is not concrete :)
 
twilighter said:
- Sadly the last in Europe Bornean Bearded Pig (Rip) and the White-tailed Deers left the zoo. I am not sure if the Deer's habitat will be part of the Leopard/Tiger outdoor exhibits or will get another Deer species. I haven't seen the Black Rhino either, but it is still signed.
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Are the forest reindeer still at the zoo? I recall they were in the same general area
 
With the departure of black rhinos from Berlin zoo and the appearance of okapis on some TP Berlin maps, it seems clear there is change to be expected in this area of the zoo.

If we extend to bongo, sable and anteater enclosures, that is a huge area that could be made available for revamp. Does any plans had already been made public? What would makes sense according to you?
 
Can I ask: does anyone know of an up-to-date full bird list for Berlin Zoo? The latest one I can find is from 2013 and only covers the indoor area of World of Birds, not the whole zoo.

Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Oscar
 
Hey. Does anyone know if Berlin still keeps Channel Billed Cuckoo? I'm sure I heard that they no longer did but ZTL contradicts that.
Any help would be great.
 
olhl.animal.photography said:
Hey. Does anyone know if Berlin still keeps Channel Billed Cuckoo? I'm sure I heard that they no longer did but ZTL contradicts that.
Any help would be great.
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A good way to see how trustworthy ZTL is for each instance individually is to look at the sources. For the Channel-billed Cuckoo, the most recent source reads: 'Besuch 05/2024 (gesehen, ausgeschildert).' The date of the visit is of course very recent (last month), with the brackets saying that it was both seen and signed on said visit, so at the very least the cuckoo was present last month, and as such it is safe to assume that it still is. :)
 
Kalaw said:
A good way to see how trustworthy ZTL is for each instance individually is to look at the sources. For the Channel-billed Cuckoo, the most recent source reads: 'Besuch 05/2024 (gesehen, ausgeschildert).' The date of the visit is of course very recent (last month), with the brackets saying that it was both seen and signed on said visit, so at the very least the cuckoo was present last month, and as such it is safe to assume that it still is. :)
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Oh OK thanks @Kalaw - didn't realise you could do that.
 
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