zoo news

The zoo will receive 3.0 giant otters at the end of July.

An eastern bongo has been born at the zoo, bringing the number at the zoo up to 4. https://www.facebook.com/DublinZoo/photos/a.113270893135.121892.98555278135/10153783466188136/?type=1&fref=nf

A second white rhino a female has been born at the park this year. New baby white rhino born at Disney's Animal Kingdom | Theme Parks - WESH Home

Karamat, the female Indian rhinoceros has been confirmed as pregnant and due at the end of this year. If successful, would this be the first of Whipsnade's wild born females calves to reproduce?

This new thread kicks off with the news that last year the zoo had a record year for attendances to the zoo, 2.012 million visitors.

3 Grevy zebra stallions are being shipped from Port Lympne to the coastal 680 hectare Decan Sanctuary in Djibouti . Here they will act as ambassadors for their species in a country which is part of their home range . Source - Daily Telegraph article .

A new year means a new news thread. The Zoo will be temporarily closing Wallaroo Station for some upgrades. Facelift Coming for Lowry Park Zoo's Wallaroo Station | South Tampa-Hyde Park, FL Patch

Images have been released for the new gorilla pavilion to be built on the higher level of the zoo, it should be completed in 2017. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.761639033920029.1073741901.444135375670398&type=1 Also the zoo has announced that it is to import 1.2 Asian lions...

The park is currently building an aviary for Steller's sea eagle to be opened next year (and it's a biggie!) https://www.facebook.com/dyrepark#!/dyrepark/photos/a.10150461623272731.384543.55187457730/10152842752767731/?type=1&theater

The zoo's marabou storks have hatched 3 chicks. https://www.facebook.com/204128069610957/photos/a.204141859609578.51662.204128069610957/829335297090228/?type=1&theater

To start a specific news thread, twin European moose have been born. https://www.facebook.com/KingdomPhotographics/photos/a.333427003383821.80019.142552522471271/733086720084512/?type=1&theater

The big question over the Koala joey has finally been answered today... it's a Bruce ;) Statement from the zoos Facebook It's a boy! The UK’s first ever koala joey has been sexed by keepers at Edinburgh Zoo, and it’s a boy! He has been named Yooranah, an Indigenous Australian word meaning...

The zoo is currently caring for around 1000 Madagascan reptiles and amphibians after a seizure at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport. The geckos, frogs, chameleons, skinks, lizards and toads, many of them endangered species, had been tied up in small muslin bags or crammed into...

The Antwerp zoo has announced plans for a new restaurant a mixed aviary featuring African buffalo an extension of the giraffe enclosure amongst other plans. Google Translate

The future will mean fewer animals but an overhaul of many exhibits. Here is an update on this 100 year-old establishment. Edinburgh Zoo plans to cut the number of animals - News - Scotsman.com Allen Nyhuis, co-author of America's Best Zoos, recently spent time in Europe visting a lot of...

A thread for those little bits of news from the sub-continent. 0.0.1 Indian rhino born at Kanpur zoo. Birth of Rhino calf brings joy in Kanpur zoo - The Times of India 1.0 gaur born at Arignar Anna zoo, bringing the herd there up to 13, including 7 females. There?s a new gaur on the...

For 2013 the zoo is opening new exhibits for Australian and Madagascan animals. Notable new arrivals are a pair of red fronted lemurs, the only ones in France, which came from Jilhava and Budapest.

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

A puma has been born at the zoo, keepers are fairly sure it is a female. Puma cub born at Cromer zoo - News - Eastern Daily Press

A litter of meerkats has been born to the group imported from South Africa last year. Wildlife park welcomes new meerkats - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)