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Perseus6 said:
They also started adding the old Echidna/wombat enclosure to the Tasmanian devils.
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Not a bad solution to use this area again, but personally I still would have liked an additional exhibit. Planckendael notably misses any kind of parrot species in this area, in my opinion.

KevinB said:
The spotted hyenas had another cub a few weeks ago, with some luck it can be spotted in the large den, or even walking around or being dragged around the exhibit.
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The hyena cub has been found to be a female and has been named Zahara.

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I spent a few hours at Planckendael today, here are some things I noticed:
  • There seem to be ongoing shifts in the species composition of the Asian section aviaries.
    • The aviary near the snow leopards now had signage for Chestnut teals and Australian maned wood ducks, so their moving from the Australian waterfront aviary seems to be getting a more permanent character. This aviary also held Eurasian spoonbills and Little egrets, which were not signed. I couldn't check the signage for the Australian waterfront aviary due to construction discussed below. However during my previous visit (May 10th) I did notice Glossy ibises in that aviary, which were kept in the oriental white stork aviary for years.
    • The aviary near the train car and the Asiatic lions, previously home to Eurasian spoonbills, Little egrets and Brown eared pheasants, seems to be currently empty, although with no signs of being renovated and without removal of signage.
    • I saw the brown eared pheasant in the demoiselle crane aviary near the bamboo forest.
    • The indoor/outdoor aviary inside/between the entrance and exit of the orangutan greenhouse was now signed for golden pheasant and collared hill partridge, two species previously kept in the bamboo forest aviary. I saw neither. I did however see an Asian azure-winged magpie (also previously in the bamboo forest aviary) and several bank mynas in this aviary. I did not see the hornbills or hill mynas that were still signed for this aviary.
  • There was ongoing maintenance in the indoor orangutan viewing area, which was partially closed and had some ladders in it.
  • In the Australian area the construction on an expanded Tasmanian devil exhibit continues, concrete with a brick red color was being poured in the area that used to be the wombat and later echidna exhibit. This area is also actively being redone with new hillier and rockier landscaping.
  • I saw several keepers observing at the windows of the Kordofan giraffe house, the head keeper was also in the area. Several other people, including the vet, were on the keeper platform in the house working on what seemed to be some kind of medical imaging. I don't know what exactly they were doing and whether it has or has not something to do with the recently communicated giraffe pregnancy.
  • There's nesting activity in the flamingo exhibit, both some American and some Chilean flamingos appear to be doing another nesting attempt.
I will be posting some images of recent developments in the gallery as soon as possible.
 
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KevinB said:
For the fourth year in a row black lemur was born to pair Oreo and Kimmie. Planckendael now houses five black lemurs, as this baby's two older sisters Xhuna and Yuna are also still at Planckendael.

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The baby Lemur is a girl, she has received the name of ZURI (pretty, lovely in Swahili language)
ZOO Planckendael on Instagram: "Kijk maar eens heel goed naar deze post, want onze kleine moormaki maakt heel graag haar naam bekend... Je hoort het goed 'haar'! Het is een meisje en ze heet... Zuri! Dat is het Afrikaanse woord voor 'aantrekkelijk' en 'lief', een mooie verwijzing naar hoe de kleine Zuri eruitziet. De herkomst van haar naam is ook heel toepasselijk natuurlijk, want deze bedreigde diersoort komt in de natuur voor op het Afrikaanse eiland Madagaskar. Welkom, Zuri! #ZOOsamen #ZOOplanckendael #maki #lemur"
 
 
I just noticed that Planckendael has a jaguar (the one that used to be in antwerp probably, behind the scenes), why is it there? Because there are no plans for it to be in zoo Antwerp or Planckendael. Will they keep it there or will it be moved?
 
Cheeorcox said:
I just noticed that Planckendael has a jaguar (the one that used to be in antwerp probably, behind the scenes), why is it there? Because there are no plans for it to be in zoo Antwerp or Planckendael. Will they keep it there or will it be moved?
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The jaguar is Zora from Antwerp zoo she is 25 turning 26 in December. She moved due to the old enclosure being unsuitable, and them renovating. She is kept behind the scenes in the cages near the canal(with some luck and binoculars you can still spot her). She will not move back to Antwerp and live out her life in Planckendael behind the scenes. I know the Amur leopard Jarolim was on the surplus list and there once was talk of him moving due to a breeding opportunity. He died in 2021.
 
Cheeorcox said:
I just noticed that Planckendael has a jaguar (the one that used to be in antwerp probably, behind the scenes), why is it there? Because there are no plans for it to be in zoo Antwerp or Planckendael. Will they keep it there or will it be moved?
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When the old jubilee complex at Antwerp closed in late 2019, the remaining predators moved to off-show exhibits at Planckendael. There were two spectacled bears (mother and daughter), a jaguar and an Amur leopard. The mother bear and the Amur leopard have since died. Only Tinka, the daughter spectacled bear, who was pretty young at the time of the move, is planned to return to Antwerp in 2027 when the new jubilee complex should open. All the other animals have or will remain at Planckendael until their deaths.
 
Perseus6 said:
The jaguar is Zora from Antwerp zoo she is 25 turning 26 in December. She moved due to the old enclosure being unsuitable, and them renovating. She is kept behind the scenes in the cages near the canal(with some luck and binoculars you can still spot her). She will not move back to Antwerp and live out her life in Planckendael behind the scenes. I know the Amur leopard Jarolim was on the surplus list and there once was talk of him moving due to a breeding opportunity. He died in 2021.
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KevinB said:
When the old jubilee complex at Antwerp closed in late 2019, the remaining predators moved to off-show exhibits at Planckendael. There were two spectacled bears (mother and daughter), a jaguar and an Amur leopard. The mother bear and the Amur leopard have since died. Only Tinka, the daughter spectacled bear, who was pretty young at the time of the move, is planned to return to Antwerp in 2027 when the new jubilee complex should open. All the other animals have or will remain at Planckendael until their deaths.
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According to a recent post on the members website Mijnzoo, Tinka has recently left her off-show exhibit at Planckendael and moved to Tierpark Berlin, where she will be introduced to a male for breeding. So it looks like Antwerp will receive different spectacled bears in the new exhibit in a few years.
 
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