Not sure if anyone knows who the father of the male reticulated giraffe Bashu is? He was born at Artis in 2012 to Iwana and was her second calf but I can't find any mention of who his father was.
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Where did you saw them? They were in the “monkey House”, next to the birdhouse, but they are already gone there. I was in Artis 1 week ago, but I haven’t seen them.
Some notes from my visit last sunday :
- the new Spider monkey enclosure looks great and much better then the enclosure they used to have at the Small Mammal House
- the last Malayan tapir - a male - 23 years old - was put asleep due to health problems
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- 3 or 4 young Great white pelicans seen
- no young Gannet(s) seen, only 3 adults
- Former Fossa enclosure still empty
- Golden-cheeked gibbon baby seen
- in the Reptilian House ( at least ) 3 ( baby ) Chinese crocodile-tailed lizards and 2 baby Radiated tortoises on display
- only one Californian sea-lion pup seen
- new enclosure for Red-crowned cranes and Snowy owls looked good and also the birds seemed to be happy with it because there was already at least 1 young Snowy owl in the aviary
- spend some time at the grass-land aviary but was unable to discover the Rock sandpipers so I'm not sure if the species is still kept at Artis
- the new Spider monkey enclosure looks great and much better then the enclosure they used to have at the Small Mammal House
- the last Malayan tapir - a male - 23 years old - was put asleep due to health problems
.- 3 or 4 young Great white pelicans seen
- no young Gannet(s) seen, only 3 adults
- Former Fossa enclosure still empty
- Golden-cheeked gibbon baby seen
- in the Reptilian House ( at least ) 3 ( baby ) Chinese crocodile-tailed lizards and 2 baby Radiated tortoises on display
- only one Californian sea-lion pup seen
- new enclosure for Red-crowned cranes and Snowy owls looked good and also the birds seemed to be happy with it because there was already at least 1 young Snowy owl in the aviary
- spend some time at the grass-land aviary but was unable to discover the Rock sandpipers so I'm not sure if the species is still kept at Artis
To put you out of our combined misery: the rock sandpipers are no more.
Missed: red panda cub.
Snowy owls had initially 6 eggs now 2 chicks. Not bad for a first immediately upon opening exhibit nest attempt by a young pair.
Missed: red panda cub.
Snowy owls had initially 6 eggs now 2 chicks. Not bad for a first immediately upon opening exhibit nest attempt by a young pair.
The Southern ground hornbills hatched one chick at the end of January and raised this succesfully. Strange enough they started a second breeding-attemp during the summertime and now a second chick is in the nestbox ! To give the family a little more space, they got acces to the aviary next to their own.
Artis recieved a new group of 26 Chilean flamingos.
Where from?
To be honest, I don't know but there are several privat breeding stations in the Netherlands which breed larger numbers of Flamingo's, so its well possible that they came from one of these.
Damn, wish they go for a more unique lemur species. Still cool though.
If I'm right, ring-tailed lemurs inhabited the Metzelaarkas before. The original plan was to keep both species of ruffed lemurs and the ring-tailed lemurs at Lemur Land, but that didn't work out. Black-and-whited ruffed lemurs left the collection and the ring-tailed lemurs are moving around for some years now between the restyled Monkey House, Metzelaarkas and Small Mammal House.
Somewhat off topic but some of these facilities really need to establish new ex-situ lemur populations or we are going to start losing them, particularly a multitude of Sifaka species... There are so many ring tailed and ruffed lemurs in the states that they are sold as pets, zoos need to start diversifying their efforts. If only more zoos had the guts to do the hard work like the Jersey/Durrell park does. Just imagine the impact it would have if all the major zoos focused on targeted field and captive conservation efforts rather than flashy new enclosures and train rides.. If I didnt know better visiting the zoo would teach me that lions and giraffes are the most endangered animals in the jungle, all through the medium of a 50 million dollar disneys the lion king experience. Idk man, it pisses me off sometimes. I need to get some sleep
Komodo dragons and/or giant tortoises would be nice too!
I was in Artis today (untill it started to rain) and the new enclosures for the spider monkeys, snowy owls and cranes look very nice.
A new building with a inner enclosure for gibbons is under construction at this moment, between the aviary for Dutch water birds and the former parrot lane.
Ground cuscus is not longer mentioned at the leaflets of the Monkey House, so I guess this species either moved to an other zoo or the last one has died. The last option seems more likely to me. Mouse lemurs are added to the collection of the Monkey House, although these are probably even more difficult to see than the cuscus was (mouse lemurs are still in the Small Mammal House as well).
The sole squirrel monkey now lives in the former spider monkey enclosure (although to me it's still the old enclosure of the ring-tailed en ruffed lemurs, being kept there for many many years). Some meerkats inhabit the old enclosure of the squirrel monkey. A rock hyrax was kept in that enclosure as well in recent years, but I didn't see it today so maybe it left.
A new building with a inner enclosure for gibbons is under construction at this moment, between the aviary for Dutch water birds and the former parrot lane.
Ground cuscus is not longer mentioned at the leaflets of the Monkey House, so I guess this species either moved to an other zoo or the last one has died. The last option seems more likely to me. Mouse lemurs are added to the collection of the Monkey House, although these are probably even more difficult to see than the cuscus was (mouse lemurs are still in the Small Mammal House as well).
The sole squirrel monkey now lives in the former spider monkey enclosure (although to me it's still the old enclosure of the ring-tailed en ruffed lemurs, being kept there for many many years). Some meerkats inhabit the old enclosure of the squirrel monkey. A rock hyrax was kept in that enclosure as well in recent years, but I didn't see it today so maybe it left.
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I was at Artis today for the first time in a few years. I noticed that the baby/young elephant has an injured trunk. I haven’t seen anything about it here and a google search brought up news about an operation to fix it but I don’t know how it was injured, does anyone know?