Nocturnal House interior at Olomouc 30/05/09

The small nocturnal house has a mixed exhibit for Bolivian Douroucoulis and Large Hairy Armadillos, a central exhibit for Fennec Foxes, and a large open-fronted/walk-in exhibit for Rodrigues Fruit Bats, Tawny Frogmouths, Common Scops Owls, Brush-tailed Bettongs and Orange-rumped Agoutis (with a small cage containing mouse lemurs).

Mouse Lemurs? Do you know what species?

Grey Mouse Lemurs (Microcebus murinus); though as the species has been split since the main zoo population was established they may technically be hybrids.

Some of the animals at other Czech zoos (Prague, Plzen and Jihlava) are labelled as M. murinus but are a new import, all from the same location, and are probably either M. myoxinus or M. ravelobensis according to the curator at Jihlava.

As regards Pilsen, I had spoken with speaker of this Zoo and I had been told, they knew anything about the changing of the genus, their animals are Microcebus murinus. (This information was confirmed by Tomas Pes, Studbook keeper for Mouse and Fat-tailed dwarf lemurs). But the situation in another zoos might be different. I will try to find out more details.