Zoo Aquarium de Madrid Madrid zoo news

Xavier GM said:
Sorry for the double post, but after seeing some recent videos it looks like there's only one hippo left.
Could anyone confirm this?
Thanks
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I saw 2 hippos exactly one month ago. Could you share those videos?

Anyway, given the size of that enclosure, I think it's clear that the zoo is waiting for them to pass away and use that area for pigmy hippos or some other smaller and semi-aquatic African animal.
 
Veah said:
I saw 2 hippos exactly one month ago. Could you share those videos?

Anyway, given the size of that enclosure, I think it's clear that the zoo is waiting for them to pass away and use that area for pigmy hippos or some other smaller and semi-aquatic African animal.
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I'v seen the video again, and you can see silhouette of the other hippo, so you're right. Sorry for the confusion!
Sorry for asking again, bot how many patagonian sea lions does the zoo have?
 
A new calf of forest/red buffalo was born at the zoo!
Zoo Aquarium Madrid | Os presentamos a la nueva integrante de nuestra familia de búfalo rojo ❤️ | Instagram
Also, last year there was also a birth, but it wasn't announced, here's the link
Zoo Aquarium Madrid | Ven a conocer a nuestra familia de búfalo rojo ¡Os esperamos! #Zoomadrid #bufalorojo #familia | Instagram
Happy to see that the population of the species are having some births, as there not that common, and I'f I'm correct ther hasn't been births in a long time.
Sorry if it's off-topic, but does someone know what will happen to the american bison habitat, last I checked it was empty, and it has been empty for a long time... Word on what animal could take the place? I hope it's the przewalski horse, but highly improbable.
 
Pholiacea said:
Sorry if it's off-topic, but does someone know what will happen to the american bison habitat, last I checked it was empty, and it has been empty for a long time... Word on what animal could take the place? I hope it's the przewalski horse, but highly improbable.
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If I recall correctly I've been told they moved the guanacos to the bison exhibit.
 
Pholiacea said:
Ugh... I'm starting to get tired with all the moves that the zoo is making with the SA animals. In no time the SA exhibit will only hold both anteaters and maras (which by the way, the zoo has a serious problem with it's population). Thanks @SivatheriumGuy for the update!
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Sorry for the double post, but it's incredible how frustrating the zoo can be at times. When was the list time the zoo acquired a new species they didn't had before? The SA animals are scattered around the park to try to fill up the obvious holes the zoo has. The australia are has 2 SA animals and the china are has also 2 SA animals. The bear area is quite sad, the aquarium isn't the same without Morgana the bull shark, the leopards live on a box, the mandrills and baboons live on literal bolbs of cement, etc... The zoo should make better decisons for the future of the zoo, and if not they're going a hanful of problems.
 
The zoo's dolphin pod has left the park:
- The zoo's eight-individual Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus truncatus) pod has left to Hainan Ocean Paradise, leaving the park without dolphins.
The pod has joined other dolphins that have arrived from other European parks, and the animals have traveled alongside their trainers so the introduction at the Chinese park goes as smoothly as possible.
The zoo's dolphinarium might serve as a temporary accommodation center when other parks or institutions require it while working on educational activities in this space. Later, it will be adapted to house other marine animals.

Zoo de Madrid traslada sus delfines a un nuevo parque de última generación
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I hope that one day we can read news about a new species, a new exhibition here...
I can already see a dolphinarium in the future that will look like the "Mysterious Nature pavilion" once did, as if the world had ended...
The day they no longer have pandas, I don't know what will become of this zoo.
 
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Kabomani said:
I hope that one day we can read news about a new species, a new exhibition here...
I can already see a dolphinarium in the future that will look like the "Mysterious Nature pavilion" once did, as if the world had ended...
The day they no longer have pandas, I don't know what will become of this zoo.
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I hope so too, the future doesn't look bright at all.
 
The last acquisition of a new species was back in 2016 with the two Iberian lynxes... since then, some replacements such as the new camels or the group of wolves, but nothing new to offer... leaving mostly a geriatric population in obsolete concrete facilities... if we add to all this the fact that there is less and less on offer (the previously mentioned and disappeared "Mysterious Nature pavilion" and now the elimination of the dolphin show).

I hope that at some point this system of minimum effort will be reflected in the influx of visitors and they will be forced to change their policy and offer both the family public and animal lovers something a little more interesting that will make them want to return to the Madrid Zoo again.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Can You elaborate or elucidate the financial and zoological outlook for the Zoologico / Zoo Aquarium de Madrid facility?

BTW: I have my own perceptions on the place ..., but yay ... I have never revisited the place since the early to mid 1980's :)oops::rolleyes:.
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Parques Reunidos (the business that runs the zoo as well as many other parks, such as Faunia, Weltvogelpark Walsrode, both Selwo zoos or the now-closed Marineland Antibes) is getting rid of all their cetaceans. I don't know if this is just the case of only European zoos as I don't know if the American parks they run also house dolphins. I've heard in the case of Selwo Marina for example, that they aren't just loosing the dolphinarium, the entire zoo will be closed up. The dolphins leaving the other parks to then go to Hainan might spend some time at Madrid.
Other than that, what we have always discussed on this thread surfaces as the main issue at the zoo; that it's an empty and antiquated facility with no genuine quality nor attempts to better the experience of both animals and visitors.
Funnily enough, I'll be visiting the zoo this weekend for the very first time :p I'll finally be able to make these critiques as properly as possible, one can judge places better after a visit ahaha.
 
SivatheriumGuy said:
Parques Reunidos (the business that runs the zoo as well as many other parks, such as Faunia, Weltvogelpark Walsrode, both Selwo zoos or the now-closed Marineland Antibes) is getting rid of all their cetaceans. I don't know if this is just the case of only European zoos as I don't know if the American parks they run also house dolphins. I've heard in the case of Selwo Marina for example, that they aren't just loosing the dolphinarium, the entire zoo will be closed up. The dolphins leaving the other parks to then go to Hainan might spend some time at Madrid.
Other than that, what we have always discussed on this thread surfaces as the main issue at the zoo; that it's an empty and antiquated facility with no genuine quality nor attempts to better the experience of both animals and visitors.
Funnily enough, I'll be visiting the zoo this weekend for the very first time :p I'll finally be able to make these critiques as properly as possible, one can judge places better after a visit ahaha.
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Whereas, I loved the day out at the Zoo Auqarium de Madrid anno 1981/82 ... even then I thought the place looked more like a concrete jungle than a parkland zoo.

The place has so much potential, yet the zoo management seems to be living in the 19th Century with regard to visitor experience and in the early 20th Century with their concrete exhibits in Hagenbeck style. I am thinking about how other zoos in Spain are making the jump forward into the 21st Century and that for a Capital City Zoo ... basically Zoo/Aquarium de Madrid fast becoming something like a public embarrassment!

It is high time the management gets kick-started or ... - preaching revolution - get kicked out by the powers that be in the Madrid Municipality and Govt. administration and modernise and/or renovate/rebuild the zoo into a state of the art future proof zoo with corresponding theming, nature mirroring exhibitry, more emphasis on animal welfare/well-being, a focus on a concept animal collection that is future and conservation-oriented and above all perhaps a zoogeographical theming and ecosystem approach in the zoo.

If only they would look at the competition of the small or medium-sized new zoos that have come up (e.g. Bioparc Fuengirola and Valencia, Sendavivia, Zoo del Pirineu, et cetera) or those zoos re-inventing themselves with modern concepts of zoo presentation (Zoobotanico Jerez, Zoo Barcelona and Cordoba Zoo).
 
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