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A male Przewalski's Horse is born on June 6th.
This young foal has been called VITO.
Kölner Zoo on Instagram: "Wichtig für den Artenschutz! Przewalskipferd im Kölner Zoo geboren Jüngst wurden wieder Pferde ausgewildert – acht Tiere aus Zoos für Schutzgebiet in Kasachstan Sommer-Fohlen-Freuden im Kölner Zoo: Am 6. Juni kam hier ein männliches Przewalskipferd zur Welt – und das bereits zum zweiten Mal in diesem Jahr. Sein Name ist „Vito“. Mutter ist die knapp achtjährige „Luna“. Sie wurde 2016 in Köln geboren und hat bereits drei Fohlen zur Welt gebracht. Der Vater heißt „Vandan“. Es ist sein fünftes Jungtier. „Vandan“ kam 2017 im Zoo in Prag zur Welt. Er lebt seit vier Jahren im Rahmen des Europäischen Erhaltungsprogramms (EEP) als Zuchthengst in Köln. Die Herde umfasst nun insgesamt acht Tiere. Die kraftvollen Przewalskipferde sind auf der Roten Liste der Weltnaturschutzunion als „endangered“ (stark gefährdet) gelistet. Zoos sind schon lange für den Erhalt dieser Wildpferdeart aktiv. Voran gingen die Biologen des Kölner Zoos, die Pionierarbeit als „Artenretter“ leisteten. Mehr als 30 Jahre managten sie das Erhaltungsprogramm für die Przewalskipferde. Sie koordinierten u.a., dass neue Bestände im riesigen Reservat Hortobagy in der ungarischen Puszta sowie komplett frei umherziehende Wildbestände in der Mongolei und in China aufgebaut werden konnten. Auch in Kasachstan werden nun Wildbestände aufgebaut. #artenschutz #zoo #tierschutz #reversethered"
 
At the end of July, their 29 year old male black rhino "Taco" will move to Zoo Frankfurt. A new pair of black rhinos, five-year-old male "Malte" of Diergaarde Blijdorp and seven-year-old female "Hazina" of Doué-la-Fontaine will move to Cologne Zoo after this.
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Can you elaborate on the new rhino enclosure and indoor at Koelner Zoo? They moved out of the Pachyderm House ..., right?

Is it known to what zoo bull Taco will move out? Has he ever been evaluated for his fertility?
 
We visited here on June 24 while on holiday in Belgium, it was about a 1h30 drive, and was on the list to visit last year May/June already but we didn't make it then.

We parked on the other side of the main entrance, where the Sea Lions are.
We had already google mapped the place to see for surrounding spots but thought we'd try there first, and there was 1 spot left, lucky!

Main reason for visiting was the Blue Eyed Black Lemurs.
Their Lemur house did not dissapoint! Felt like I stepped into heaven, lol.
All of them were out and about when we got there, and the Blue Eyed Black Lemur was eating so got to see her really well, and with the eye color and the color of the furr she looks stunning! (do they not have a male? only saw a female)

When in Belgium again I'm sure we'll go back here, it was a really nice place.
It was very hot that day, and I don't function very well when the sun is out :confused: so even after going back and forth to some animals after we did the full round, we were still about an hour before closing time done and decided we didn't want to go around some more anymore.

A few babies we saw: Lion Tailed Macaque, Red Howler Monkey, Lion cubs, we saw 1 of the Tiger cubs on the TV screen just in time before it crawled out of sight, the Aloatran Lemur twins and the highlight of the day was the Okapi baby, sadly not a great view as it was inside and you had to look through 2 panels of glass which were all quite dirty, but still, we managed to see it a little bit.

The Red Howler Monkey we hadn't seen before anywere else.
We also went to the Aardvark feeding, to make sure we would finally get a proper look at them, as ones we've seen before have always been asleep and usually in a very dark place.
The keeper had some troubles getting one of them out of their hut, but with some belly scratches and holding the food right in front of him he came outside.

Bummed about not seeing the Weddell's Tamarin, had not seen these before, and was just looking at ZTL, no where else in Europe?

Only a few no-shows, the Spectacled Bear, Rhino, Geoffoy's Cat and the Otters.
(but we've seen all these elsewhere before)
 
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