2013

So 2013 is drawing to a close and I was just wondering what everyone's zoo/animal highlight(s) was/were! This is preferably for any big trips you went on (for example, Hix and Chlidonias' travels to Uganda and Asia), zoos you visited, or species you saw but could also be any big piece of zoo...

Time for a new thread and time for big news, the Prague zoo has received a male Javan leopard from Tierpark Berlin. The zoo is sourcing a female for the male "Arjuna" from Asia. Prague zoo has Javan leopard | Prague Monitor

THREE baby white-tailed eagles have been born in Ireland for the first time in 100 years. A proud pair of eagles hatched a chick at a nest in Killarney National Park, Co. Kerry, having laid eggs in late March. A second pair has also successfully hatched two chicks near Mountshannon, Co...

No appropriate thread for this so started a news thread for Banham. According to ISIS they now have a pair of red titi. Along with 0.2 Pallas cats

Mollie the European brown bear has died, she was 32 years old and put to sleep. (would Mollie be the brown bear from Edinburgh zoo?) The Amur tiger enclosure has been extended and a viewing platform added 1.0 Bactrian camel born

First birth of the year. A male Mishmi takin was born to the herd on 3rd March. Other news is that a chute has been built to connect both forest reindeer enclosures.

Time to open the 2013 thread. The White-nosed Coati can now be found in the Brown Spider Monkey House. I had my third sighting of the False Gavial in Croc Swamp this week - again it was on the side of the pool under the area housing various snakes and the two monitor lizards. So if you're...