DierenPark Amersfoort Amersfoort News 2022

[JurassicMax]

Currently the Chilean flamingos (Phoenicopterus chilensis) are incubating one egg.

Source:
Instagram of Dierenpark Amersfoort (29/08/2022)

 

[JurassicMax]

Twin Pygmy slow loris born at Amersfoort .

Recently their gender has been revealed, they are both male!

Source:
Instagram of Dierenpark Amersfoort (01/09/2022)

 

[JurassicMax]

Recently multiple Yellow-crowned bishops (Euplectes afer) have hatched!

Source:
Instagram of Dierenpark Amersfoort (23/09/2022)

 

[MennoPebesma]

The 2-year-old Amur tiger Krai from Parco Natura Viva in Italy moved to Dierenpark Amersfoort today. Here he will live with Angara, the 13-year-old female already living in Dierenpark Amersfoort.

Source: Facebook Parco Natura Viva

 

[vogelcommando]

2 Crested screamers hatched at Amersfoort

Article ( in Dutch ) :

https://dierenparkamersfoort.nl/hoe...iUhQZGC0FtA5JNle8aHgT956P2NF1fY0TzuFpnTV-ZtX4

 

[JurassicMax]

At the end of this year male Greater One-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) Puri will leave the zoo.

Source;
Instagram of Dierenpark Amersfoort (06/10/2022)

 

[MennoPebesma]

At the end of this year male Greater One-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) Puri will leave the zoo.

Source;
Instagram of Dierenpark Amersfoort (06/10/2022)

Recently, Puri moved to Zoo Basel.

 

[Yunha]

A new male tiger, 'Krai', moved to Amersfoort. Introductions are now going with female 'Angara'.

Source: Facebook Dierenpark Amersfoort (23-11-2022)

 

[JurassicMax]

Amersfoort has received permission from the EEP coordinator to start breeding (again) with the red panda's.

Source:
Instagram of Dierenpark Amersfoort (29/11/2022)

 

[Yunha]

A new species has arrived in Amersfoort: the Barbary Macaque. The four individuals now living in Amersfoort were rehomed from Apenheul.

Source: Dierenpark Amersfoort website Nieuw diersoort: berberaap | DierenPark Amersfoort

On the site it's described that you can see the macaques in the monkey enclosure near the restaurant. Does anyone know if the monkies are co-housed with the Japanese Macaques or if the Japanese Macaques have moved away? I really hope I will have more time on the weekends next year to visit the zoo and just go and see

 

[JurassicMax]

A new species has arrived in Amersfoort: the Barbary Macaque. The four individuals now living in Amersfoort were rehomed from Apenheul.

Source: Dierenpark Amersfoort website Nieuw diersoort: berberaap | DierenPark Amersfoort

On the site it's described that you can see the macaques in the monkey enclosure near the restaurant. Does anyone know if the monkies are co-housed with the Japanese Macaques or if the Japanese Macaques have moved away? I really hope I will have more time on the weekends next year to visit the zoo and just go and see

For so far I know the Japanse macaques have left the zoo and the Barbary macaques replace them.

 

[Yunha]

Thanks for your reply!

 

[MennoPebesma]

For so far I know the Japanse macaques have left the zoo and the Barbary macaques replace them.

That's correct. And that probably has to do with the following message from the Old World Monkey TAG in the 2019 EAZA TAG Reports:

"Not all EEPs have the goal to maintain the population at its current size. Instead, some have been established to actively manage a decrease in population size, for some a move towards a phase-out. This will be done for the following species:

- Crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis), Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata), rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) and southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) will be actively managed for either keeping the ex situ population in control or for phase out in order to provide more space for Sulawesi crested macaque, lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), Barbary macaque or other species with important conservation roles"

 

[Yunha]

Very interesting to read! Thanks

 

[JurassicMax]

A few weeks ago a male Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) escaped from the zoo. Recently he was found back in the village of Berlicum which is 50 km away from the zoo.

Source:
Website of NOS (29/12/2022)