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Pygmy marmoset twin born at Artis 
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Baby-gorilla which was brought to Artis meets its future foster-family ( through the glass to start with ) :
Where in the zoo are these kept?
I think in the Savanna.
Giraffe House and outside courtyard.
New stick insect species entered the collection : Oreophoetes peruana .
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New male-group of springboks ( 2 normal colored and 2 black ones ) :
2 young Griffon vultures are send to Sardinia to be released later this year :
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2 young Griffon vultures are send to Sardinia to be released later this year
Article about the planned re-introduction :
ARTIS Griffon vultures return to the wild
He is in the former sloth bear indoor enclosure, thus down the stairs behind the current red panda enclosure.
PicanBird
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Ohmygosh. We walked straight past that area as it looked so dead and for staff only!
Has anyone actually seen the Thomson’s gazelles since they’ve arrived? Also, where are the speckled padlopers in the zoo?
I have seen several visitors pictures of the Gazelles already. The padlopers are in the Gorilla house, next to the indoor enclosure for the Giant tortoises.
Yes, 2.0 tommies alternating with the springbok bachelor group.
After a visit today;
Still no sign of the thommies; today it was because the weather was bad so they were locked indoors as the giraffes were in their paddock.
Saw the padlopers as well; counted three
The gorilla introductions are going well; I counted 3.2 in with the new infant female today. Only the silverback, one adult female and one of the blackbacks were locked away.
Lots of fowls offshow because of the flu; eiders, argus pheasants and screamers to name a couple.
It appears the three young arapaima that were in the main Aquarium hall have been moved into the giant Amazon tank; very impressive to compare them to the huge one in there.
Ostriches seem to have been temporarily moved from the savannah to the nilgai paddock; incidentally, no nilgai sighted so are they still there? Only a few left when I last visited a couple months back.
Also, for the first time ever saw every species of animal in the Monkey House walkthrough that is signed on the handout ID sheets; two-toed sloth, night monkey, pygmy marmoset (plus the hybrid), white-faced saki, Rodrigues fruit bat, green iguana, Chinese water dragon, Belanger's treeshrew, New Guinea ground cuscus, tokay gecko (heard one too
), and incredibly a Seba's short-tailed bat going on an early evening reccy towards the end of the day! Only missed the (not signed) sugar glider...
Still no sign of the thommies; today it was because the weather was bad so they were locked indoors as the giraffes were in their paddock.
Saw the padlopers as well; counted three
The gorilla introductions are going well; I counted 3.2 in with the new infant female today. Only the silverback, one adult female and one of the blackbacks were locked away.
Lots of fowls offshow because of the flu; eiders, argus pheasants and screamers to name a couple.
It appears the three young arapaima that were in the main Aquarium hall have been moved into the giant Amazon tank; very impressive to compare them to the huge one in there.
Ostriches seem to have been temporarily moved from the savannah to the nilgai paddock; incidentally, no nilgai sighted so are they still there? Only a few left when I last visited a couple months back.
Also, for the first time ever saw every species of animal in the Monkey House walkthrough that is signed on the handout ID sheets; two-toed sloth, night monkey, pygmy marmoset (plus the hybrid), white-faced saki, Rodrigues fruit bat, green iguana, Chinese water dragon, Belanger's treeshrew, New Guinea ground cuscus, tokay gecko (heard one too
), and incredibly a Seba's short-tailed bat going on an early evening reccy towards the end of the day! Only missed the (not signed) sugar glider...
New species at Artis : 2 three-banded armadillos can be viewed in the Small Mammal House.