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Recently a male Mhor gazelle (Nanger dama mhorr) was born. Source: Instagram of Diergaarde Blijdorp (04/01/2024)

Hi, I was lookling at the animals that were kept in the rotterdam zoo around 2007. I have a few questions what was kept in some enclosures and where some animals were kept since I dont remember seeing some species. Where were the Lowland anoa's kept? Where were the alaotra gentle lemurs kept...

Blijdorp Oceanium Tanks: Hello, on 16-09-2020 I visited Blijdorp. Because the signage is very bad in the Oceanium when I visited, I decided to make a full species list of all the onshow tanks. A lot of tanks didn’t have signage at all (including very big tanks). This list will contain all...

This Derby flycather (Pitangus sulphuratus) lives at Blijdorp's bird house.

Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Female Demba (the crazy one. She is almost always waving her head near one of the doors. And recently she started waving a leg as well.)

Okapi Kamina & Kibibi (Mother & daughter). Kibibi was born on 06-march 2008 (Tom x Kamina) Picture taken on 23 april 2008

Okapi Kibibi (female). Born on 06-march 2008 (Tom x Kamina) Picture taken on 23 april 2008

Okapi Kibibi (female). Born on 06-march 2008 (Tom x Kamina) Picture taken on 23 april 2008

This corridor is themed to resamble the inside of the beagle (Darwins' ship) on the left are the inside and outside enclosures for the galapagos turtles.

The biggest tank in the oceanium is this atlantic ocean themed tunnel. There are multiple species of shark, turtles, etc.

A small part of the wolf-enclosure. Blijdorp keeps scaninavian wolves (and breeds very often). The zoo used to have spanish wolves, thats what they started of with when the exhibit was opened somewhere in the early 90'. But the pair wouldn't breed so they were each send to different zoos to make...

Here you can see some of the adujstments made after bokito escaped. People now stand behind a fence so they cant tap the glass. A lot of the windows are also blinded or at least darkned (impossible to make decent pictures of the animals). This is all temporary, but its not clear for how long. It...

From on top of the bridge you can look into the 2 tigerenclosures.

Taman indah, the house for the elephants, rhinos, tapir, gibbon, hornbill (A. undulatus), python, prevost squirrel, roulroul, and some tortoises and fish. Here is a part of the elephant enclosure

'You've got something stuck on your nose' Thirza again with the guenon

'Mummy i want that one as a pet' On the left is female tamani, her daughter Thirza is playing with a white nosed guenon.

Okapi female Camilla in blijdorp/rotterdam (in the background is Tom who she is supposed to mate with)