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Temporary exhibition of poison dart frogs starts this Saturday and will last till middle of September. Ca 40 frog species on show. Located in Gocar house.
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The zoo has asked companies for price offers for reconstruction of existing Amur tiger exhibit. Timeline is unclear to me.
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Jana said:
Temporary exhibition of poison dart frogs starts this Saturday and will last till middle of September. Ca 40 frog species on show. Located in Gocar house.
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The zoo has asked companies for price offers for reconstruction of existing Amur tiger exhibit. Timeline is unclear to me.
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Is it possible they want to work on it simultaneously with polar bear complex? (which is already under construction, but, I assume, tiger exhibit (re)construction should take less time...)
 
xmoose said:
Is it possible they want to work on it simultaneously with polar bear complex? (which is already under construction, but, I assume, tiger exhibit (re)construction should take less time...)
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It´s possible I think. Amur leopard complex next door is empty (last animal sent away) and Amur tiger exhibit might be empty soon too so now would be optimal solution to just close the whole area for visitors and do all construction works at the same time.
 
Jana said:
Temporary exhibition of poison dart frogs starts this Saturday and will last till middle of September. Ca 40 frog species on show. Located in Gocar house.
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The zoo has asked companies for price offers for reconstruction of existing Amur tiger exhibit. Timeline is unclear to me.
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Will Amur leopards return to Prague Zoo? If not, I hope that another leopard subspecies with a conservation plan will come to Prague .
 
Raikou said:
Will Amur leopards return to Prague Zoo? If not, I hope that another leopard subspecies with a conservation plan will come to Prague .
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I dont know answer to your question, the zoo has not said anything yet. But if I may take a guess, I think Amur leopards will return. The zoo has long tradition of keeping them.

BTW
A little fun fact - the first Prague Amur leopard arrived on 22.11.1952 - directly from China.

Here is translation of part of article written by J.Felix, former zoo director:
Shortly after the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Prague Zoo established very friendly relations with Beijing Zoo. These led primarily to mutual exchanges and gifts of animals. The Beijing Zoo thus donated a number of rare wild animals living in China to Prague Zoo. This was the first time in history that the Prague Zoo kept some species of Chinese animals (donations from the People's Republic of China were officially provided by Mao Zedong, according to protocol).

In 1952, a delegation from the People's Republic of China visited the Prague Zoo and brought a collection of extraordinary animals as a gift, which became an attraction at the Prague Zoo. It was mainly an Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), a female, a pair of Chinese alligators, two Chinese giant salamanders and 5 parrots (2.0 ring-necked parakeets - Psittacula krameri, 1.0 moustached parakeet - Psittacula alexandri and 1.1 Malabar parakeets - Psittacula columboides), and other animals. It was on November 22, 1952.

A year later, on November 13, 1953, Beijing Zoo sent a large consignment of animals to the Prague Zoo, including a young male Amur tiger, 3 bear macaques, 3 Tibetan macaques, 3 sika deer, a Burmese rock python, 2 silver pheasants, 2 green pheasants (P. versicolor), 2 Indian cobras and 5 Chinese giant salamanders.

A year later, on November 29, 1954, Beijing Zoo sent, among other things, a female Amur tiger captured in northern Manchuria, two pairs of Lord Derby´s parakeets, another Burmese rock python, etc.

In September 1956, the Prague Zoo held a celebration of the 25th anniversary of its opening date (September 28, 1931). The director of the Beijing Zoo, Tsui Chan-p´ing, also came to the symposium to mark this anniversary and was warmly welcomed by the director of Prague Zoo, Dr. Cyril Purkyně, who himself accompanied the distinguished guest on a tour of Prague Zoo and the city of Prague. The delegation from Beijing Zoo also brought with them an extraordinary gift, a male red panda, a rare Chinese subspecies Ailurus fulgens styani. The gift also included two more Chinese giant salamanders (Andrias davidianus), 4 mandarin ducks (Aix galericulata) caught from the wild, and 2 Chinese pangolins, from southern China (Manis pentadactyla).

In 1956, the Prague Zoo also sent a number of animals to Beijing Zoo, including 1 greater rhea, 1.1 Andean condors, 2 boa constrictor, 1 serval, 2 toco toucans and other animals, later also dozens of breeding canaries, etc.

In 1957, the Prague Zoo received 2 king cobras from Beijing Zoo, the largest venomous snakes in the world. On November 30, 1957, the Beijing Zoo also sent another pair of red pandas to Prague. And then the Beijing Zoo also provided the world's primate to Prague. On July 19, 1958, she sent two males of the Tibetan pheasant (Crossoptilon crossoptilon drouyni) and later, on July 26, 1958, a female. Until then, this rare subspecies had not been kept anywhere in the world outside of China. The Tibetan pheasant has been known to science since 1868, but it was not until 1956 that the first live individual was captured by an expedition from the Beijing Zoo in Kam Province from the upper reaches of the Mekong River. In July 1958, 5 individuals of the amazing big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) also arrived from China for the first time at Prague Zoo.
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Question is - would there be space for them? Where?
(there were plans for them in place of brown hyenas, but these could be outdated at the time... and another, older plans, mentioned, probably in more distant future, space for big cats, somewhere behind gorilla house and giraffe enclosure)
 
Zoofan15 said:
@Jana summarised the key information on Page 4 of this thread; but noted the omission of the tables of animal population changes over the course of 2024 (which can be found on the final pages in this edition of the report).
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Yeah, I know - though, this report mentions stuff like turning the former polar bear exhibit into a sun bear exhibit! More specifically, it's been confirmed the space should be turned into a complex combining enclosures for those bears and orangs.
 
merlin said:
Yeah, I know - though, this report mentions stuff like turning the former polar bear exhibit into a sun bear exhibit! More specifically, it's been confirmed the space should be turned into a complex combining enclosures for those bears and orangs.
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I think it would be crazy to juggle both species instead of using the polar bear enclosure for a single great expansion for the orangs. I assume the zoo would have to use space from the Australia row to make both species work.
 
merlin said:
Yeah, I know - though, this report mentions stuff like turning the former polar bear exhibit into a sun bear exhibit! More specifically, it's been confirmed the space should be turned into a complex combining enclosures for those bears and orangs.
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Very bizarre choice. I certainly hope that some of the land around it (probably the existing kangaroo enclosure in large part) will be incorporated into the sun bear enclosure, or else there is quite obviously not enough space to design anything half-decent for both another bear species and orangutans. Presumably, the orangs and bears will have one of the existing grottos each, and again hopefully in the latter case a sizeable extension will be attached.
 
Kalaw said:
Very bizarre choice. I certainly hope that some of the land around it (probably the existing kangaroo enclosure in large part) will be incorporated into the sun bear enclosure, or else there is quite obviously not enough space to design anything half-decent for both another bear species and orangutans. Presumably, the orangs and bears will have one of the existing grottos each, and again hopefully in the latter case a sizeable extension will be attached.
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Yeah. I guess the complex should be somehow connected to the Indonesian jungle, but we'll see.
 
PossumRoach said:
I think it would be crazy to juggle both species instead of using the polar bear enclosure for a single great expansion for the orangs. I assume the zoo would have to use space from the Australia row to make both species work.
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Well, if that mean malay bears for red kangaroos, I am all in :D
(it would make sense to me, I think that original plans for pandas/asian bears weren´t limited for current polar bear paddocks)
 
xmoose said:
Well, if that mean malay bears for red kangaroos, I am all in :D
(it would make sense to me, I think that original plans for pandas/asian bears weren´t limited for current polar bear paddocks)
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Of course they weren't. And there's actually plenty of free space around too, including the playground.
 
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