New pics and videos with Padang and Upita on the inside island. This mixing must be very recent because these are the first pics of them together I´ve ever seen.
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That's a surprise, I wonder if the change with Jersey is not going to happen soon.
If Padang and Upita get on as well as they appear here, mating happens(which it will almost certainly if not already) and she doesn't tyranise him as she did their old male, its possible Prague may not want to do the exchange anymore.
Or Upita might still go to Jersey but already pregnant from Padang!
Or Upita might still go to Jersey but already pregnant from Padang!
It'll be hard on him if the move now goes ahead when he's just got used to her.
They might decide to rethink it?
Padang seemed to get on with Upita right from the very start as those first photos show him in very close contact with her.
The exchange of females with Jersey is indeed no more on the schedule.
The relationship between Pady and Upitka started immediatelly after the separating door was opened, after some wrestling and biting, the first full mating was observed only after 3 hours later (the first pics I linked here were taken ca 24 hours after their first contact). The first days, Pady was affraid she could disapper so that he was constantly in a physical contact with her, now he is much more relaxed and I saw him to let her go further then 2-3 meters from him during my last visits.
The current status quo seems to work well - Padang and Utipa live as a future breeding pair on the main island while the old male Kama sits alone on a smaller island, separated by 3-meter-wide moat, and the gibbons can move freely between the two islands. It´s only unfortunate that there is only 1 outside enclosure so that they´ll have to use it in shifts. When Kama, Upita and their sons still lived together, they could use it 24 hours a day during summer.
I wonder if anyone has told Jersey, my friend visited recently and they had no idea what was going on re Mawar moving.
Someone who visits Prague frequently told me Upita was unable to move when she was supposed to because of health problems, I wonder what these are and whether they will prevent her breeding?
Maybe they'll look for another exchange for her now. Though I am not really sure why they want to exchange her
- I believe she has been bullied? But trying to keep Orangutans in groups often results in this- Jersey already had to send one female-Julitta- to France because she wouldn't get on with the others. There's no guarantee if they exchange Mawar that it won't happen with another female too.
Jordan-Jaguar97
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Does anybody know what happened about the Ratel incident that was posted by Kiang?
The escaped breeding female ratel has never been recovered, there are no hints what happened. The zoo is left with just one male, they try to source another female, but it´s very difficult.
Jordan-Jaguar97
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So she could potienally still be in the Zoo has any animals gone missing?
I think that can be ruled out, she was spotted on road near zoo and although after it was made public there were many hoax sightings, (made up, sightings of native wild animals and allegedly even a homeless person with colour-fitting jacket sleeping below some tree or something) the first one was probably genuine. The zoo was most concerned that she could be run over by a car during her journey.
P?ÍMÝ P?ENOS! Líhnutí WALDRAP? v pra?ské ZOO - tn.cz walldrap hatching webcam
Some news from last weeks:
- A Cape fur seal was born, its parents are halfsiblings (they are son and daughter of the famous male Gaston, who escaped during the big flood in 2002).
- Two Edwards's Fig Parrots (Psittaculirostris edwardsii) left the nesting box.
- Two Rhinoceros Hornbill chicks are still in the nesting box.
- The two Jaguarundi cubs are 5 months old but still quite payfull.
- Two Binturong cubs, one White-fronted brown lemur young, one black lemur, male Lowland anoa calf, Southern Three-banded Armadillo young.
- As for other birds, there are also chicks of Abdim stork, european hoopoe, White-headed Buffalo-weaver, White-bellied Go-away-bird, White-headed sea eagle, Stellers sea eagle, Red-crowned Crane, Little Bittern, Roseate spoonbill, Little Owl, Black-and-white Laughingthrush, Chestnut-winged Laughingthrush, Barred Laughingthrush, Yellow-billed Amazon, Garganey, Asian Glossy Starling...
- There are some Cassowary and African open-billed stork eggs in incubator.
- Hatched: Black marsh turtle, Egyptian tortoises, Leopard tortoises (G.p.pardalis), Tunisian spur-thighed tortoise, Oustalet's Giant Chameleon.
Unfortunatelly, it looks like there will be no flamingo chicks this year, birds in both pens show only little/ no interest in nest building. The only arrival is 8 young Greater flamingos that have been foster-reared in Liberec and Ostrava, after the Prague flock deserted its nests during incubation last summer.
Edit: RE oran Upita - she is unfiertile, thus no breeding oportunity for Padang (yet).
- A Cape fur seal was born, its parents are halfsiblings (they are son and daughter of the famous male Gaston, who escaped during the big flood in 2002).
- Two Edwards's Fig Parrots (Psittaculirostris edwardsii) left the nesting box.
- Two Rhinoceros Hornbill chicks are still in the nesting box.
- The two Jaguarundi cubs are 5 months old but still quite payfull.
- Two Binturong cubs, one White-fronted brown lemur young, one black lemur, male Lowland anoa calf, Southern Three-banded Armadillo young.
- As for other birds, there are also chicks of Abdim stork, european hoopoe, White-headed Buffalo-weaver, White-bellied Go-away-bird, White-headed sea eagle, Stellers sea eagle, Red-crowned Crane, Little Bittern, Roseate spoonbill, Little Owl, Black-and-white Laughingthrush, Chestnut-winged Laughingthrush, Barred Laughingthrush, Yellow-billed Amazon, Garganey, Asian Glossy Starling...
- There are some Cassowary and African open-billed stork eggs in incubator.
- Hatched: Black marsh turtle, Egyptian tortoises, Leopard tortoises (G.p.pardalis), Tunisian spur-thighed tortoise, Oustalet's Giant Chameleon.
Unfortunatelly, it looks like there will be no flamingo chicks this year, birds in both pens show only little/ no interest in nest building. The only arrival is 8 young Greater flamingos that have been foster-reared in Liberec and Ostrava, after the Prague flock deserted its nests during incubation last summer.
Edit: RE oran Upita - she is unfiertile, thus no breeding oportunity for Padang (yet).
Please let us know if you hear any more news on that...
And is there any chance new female Gorilla 'Bikira' might be pregnant yet?
Please let us know if you hear any more news on that...
And is there any chance new female Gorilla 'Bikira' might be pregnant yet?
The only info about Upita I know is, that the health-check before planned transport to Jersey showed she is unfertile (no idea what exactly is wrong). Prague asked for a new female, but there is no suitable one in EEP now, so they must wait.
Bikira had its last visible regular heat at the beginning of March. So there is some possibility she is pregnant, but there is no announcement from the zoo.