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Safari part of the zoo will close on 6th of October for winter.

Attendance of the zoo is up by 12% compared to last year. Poland finished construction of a new highway S3 in July and this led to jump in number of Polish visitors. If current trend continues the zoo could reach annual attendance of 730-750k and come close to record years 1969-1970, the golden times when former director Vágner was importing big game directly from Africa.

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Birth of an African Forest Buffalo.
Safari Park Dvůr Králové on Instagram: "Narodilo se mládě buvola pralesního! Na svět přišlo minulé pondělí a v podstatě celý první týden strávilo s matkou na ostrůvku v mokřadu lesní části safari. Pomalu se ale připojují ke stádu a máte poslední týdny na to je spatřit. Safari se dle plánu uzavře 6. října. Tyto majestátní lesní velikány neuvidíte nikde jinde v Česku nebo na Slovensku. Safari park je jejich světovou velmocí. Pohled na ně je opravdová vzácnost. Povedlo se vám dvojici pozorovat? Helena Hubáčková / SAFARI PARK DVŮR KRÁLOVÉ #safariparkdvurkralove #afrikavsrdcievropy #africa #safari #czechrepublic #zookeepers #wildlife #animals #zooanimals #zoodvurkralove #conservation #visitczechrepublic #eaza #safari #vecernisafari #buvolpralesni #africanforestbuffalo #mlade #baby #pouzevedvore"
 
In an interesting but quite gruesome piece of news, the skeleton of SUDAN, the last known male Northern White Rhino, has been brought back to Dvur Kralove Zoo.
Safari Park Dvůr Králové on Instagram: "‼️ Nejslavnější nosorožec světa opět ve Dvoře. Sudán je zpátky a s ním i Nabiré. Kosterní preparát posledního známého samce nosorožce bílého severního se vrátil do Dvora Králové. Spolu s ním i kostra Nabiré, jedné z posledních samic této jedniečné formy nosorožce. Takřka tři roky byly kostry dočasnou branou do nově zbudované expozice v Národním muzeu v Praze. Obě jsou teď už k vidění v Muzeu koster ve vile La Rose. Helena Hubáčková / SAFARI PARK DVŮR KRÁLOVÉ Helena Hubáčková / SAFARI PARK DVŮR KRÁLOVÉ #safariparkdvurkralove #afrikavsrdcievropy #africa #safari #czechrepublic #zookeepers #wildlife #animals #zooanimals #zoodvurkralove #conservation #visitczechrepublic #eaza #safari #muzeumkoster #skeleton #nosorozecbilyseverni #northernwhiterhino #pouzevedvore"
 
Fun little info, in their map/guidebook they have all 4 species of hyena on the cover and as the first subject of the map, however the Aardwolf depicted is undoubtedly just a slimmed and different coloured striped hyena.
Found it a bit odd when I got it.
 
 
Nile Hippo Expert said:
A 0.1 Rothschild's Giraffe was born October 14th, which is the 184th birth of the species in the park's history.
PHOTOS: A Rare Rothschild Giraffe Born in Czech Zoo
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Is the breeding stop that plagued a good part of all giraffe EEP's over the last 5-8 years now completely off the agenda?

I would be glad ... to see it go and that finally the successful breeding of pure bred various giraffe taxa and subspecies is taken up back in earnest. Zoo Dvur Kralove has always been instrumental in developing giraffe populations in Europe through the Jiri Vagner imports from Kenya-Tanzania.

Along with an increased impetus for and emphasis on ex situ breeding that my dream of true global management of giraffe and the actual possibility of sending back rare giraffe back to Africa and vice versa fresh genes for the European ex situ conservation breeding programs might become a reality at some point. This would certainly assist for instance the Nubian (ex Rothschildt's giraffe) northern giraffe subspecies.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Is the breeding stop that plagued a good part of all giraffe EEP's over the last 5-8 years now completely off the agenda?

I would be glad ... to see it go and that finally the successful breeding of pure bred various giraffe taxa and subspecies is taken up back in earnest. Zoo Dvur Kralove has always been instrumental in developing giraffe populations in Europe through the Jiri Vagner imports from Kenya-Tanzania.

Along with an increased impetus for and emphasis on ex situ breeding that my dream of true global management of giraffe and the actual possibility of sending back rare giraffe back to Africa and vice versa fresh genes for the European ex situ conservation breeding programs might become a reality at some point. This would certainly assist for instance the Nubian (ex Rothschildt's giraffe) northern giraffe subspecies.
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As far as I’m aware. The studbook requested a resumption of breeding in giraffes last year some time.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Is the breeding stop that plagued a good part of all giraffe EEP's over the last 5-8 years now completely off the agenda?
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Dvur Kralove got green light from the coordinator to resump breeding of both giraffe groups in 2021. And while Bořek proved prolific (maybe too much), the reticulated bull is so far a failure.
 
Two Eurasian griffon vultures that hatched at Dvur during spring have been moved to a quarantine aviary at the island of Sardinia (Italy). They are being prepaired to be set free in April 2025, to join local endangered vulture colony that is in process of recovery.
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All residents of town Dvur Kralove have free entry to the zoo on 22./23./24. of December this year. The zoo wants to apologise in this way to locals that suffered huge traffic jams caused by zoo guests driving through the town on some days during this summer. (This is reverse side of zoo´s success and growing attendance. It leads to some very critical voices in local community and the zoo has a pressing issue to solve it till next summer season starts, before community leaders might go populistic and start to hinder future zoo´s plans that include area enlargement and new investments). Whoever plans Christmas zoo visit should be prepaired the zoo might be busy.
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Jana said:
Two Eurasian griffon vultures that hatched at Dvur during spring have been moved to a quarantine aviary at the island of Sardinia (Italy). They are being prepaired to be set free in April 2025, to join local endangered vulture colony that is in process of recovery.
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Hopefully they don't get shot or poisoned like it usually goes...
Sheperds are stuck in the belief that vultures will hunt their livestock and will do anyhting to get rid of them
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Some inaccuracies in that article of course, most notably the claim that the cubs are the first outside Africa for 35 years.
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Hamerton bred them in 1999. What happened to the cubs? Did they managed to survive for longer time to be considered a successful breeding? I have no further information about this.
 
Grimnir said:
Hamerton bred them in 1999. What happened to the cubs? Did they managed to survive for longer time to be considered a successful breeding? I have no further information about this.
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The cubs in question lived at Hamerton until their deaths from old age - here is a photograph of one of them I took in March 2012:

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