Emmen has a herd of 15 elephants. One big bull (Radza), 5 younger bulls, and 9 females. In 15 years time 17 elephants were born here! Only two of them died.
Thanks for the explanation. I checked out the thread, the zoo´s web site and the map here at ZooChat. What a wonderful and incredible project! In a city with only 100 000 inhabitants... fantastic! And still - I really liked most of what I saw in the old zoo.
But the coming new elephant exhibit promises to be something spectacular! And how about that "baboon canyon"? Great stuff, indeed!
The municipality of emmen consists out of 100.000 people, emmen itself has 57.000 inhabitants But, with that number it has managed to be the second largest city in the northern part of the netherlands ( quite an achievement in a rural area).
