Rotterdam Zoo Blijdorp News 2017

[vogelcommando]

Blijdorp made some plans public :
- Next to the already finished fake-coral walk-through tunnel, an aquarium with living corals will be added this year.
- Next month will see the start of a new "endangered reptile-complex" in the Desert-part of the Oceanium.
- and.... there are plans to build a large tropical greenhouse next to the Oceanium.

 

[kiang]

0.1 Roadrunner has arrived from Berlin.

Onze mannelijke renkoekoek heeft na... - Diergaarde Blijdorp / Rotterdam Zoo | Facebook

 

[Nisha]

Indian Rhino, Namaste gave birth to her seventh calf in the past few hours. Mother and baby doing well so far

 

[kiang]

Indian Rhino, Namaste gave birth to her seventh calf in the past few hours. Mother and baby doing well so far

Live on the webcam too

Neushoorn webcams - Diergaarde Blijdorp

 

[vogelcommando]

Indian rhino calf is a female .

 

[Kifaru Bwana]

Indian rhino calf is a female .

Looking at the footage of the calf yesterday, both physically and behaviorally I was already under the impression the calf was female. So, this is more than welcome news (for the EEP) and confirmation of my gut feelings!

 

[vogelcommando]

New birds for Blijdorp :
From Burgers Arnhem :
2 Thick-billed parrots
x Little bittern(s?)
2 Mangrove herons
From Barcelona Zoo :
1-1 Blue-breasted kingfishers

 

[vogelcommando]

New enclosure for Dart frogs placed into Amazonica, will become home to Strawberry frogs.

 

[vogelcommando]

Walk-through part of the Wreathed hornbills will be closed for some time ----> female is in the nest and incubating .

 

[vogelcommando]

The Blue-breasted kingfishers went on display and can be found in the Okapi-enclosure .

 

[vogelcommando]

Pallas' cat gave birth to an still unknown number of young .

 

[kiang]

Philippine chevrotain born

Diergaarde Blijdorp / Rotterdam Zoo

 

[Nisha]

Okapi, Kamina gave birth to a calf last night (13th May) gender unconfirmed so far

The first birth at Rotterdam since the enclosure was rebuilt in 2015

 

[vogelcommando]

Okapi born on May 13 is a male and called Gerrit :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154556120280222

 

[vogelcommando]

Mhorr gazelle born .

 

[vogelcommando]

Pallas' cat gave birth to an still unknown number of young .

It is only one young and its a female. She got the name "Loesje".

 

[vogelcommando]

Gentoo penguins have hatched :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154691848685222

 

[vogelcommando]

Last 2 wolves ( a pair ) at Blijdorp put down ( old ( 13 years ) and sick ) :

AFSCHEID WOLVEN - Diergaarde Blijdorp

 

[kiang]

Not news, just an interesting photo i found online of a melanistic Malayan tapir that arrived at the zoo in 1924 and is believed to be a separate subspecies Tapirus indicus brevetianus.

ShukerNature: BREVET'S BLACK MALAYAN TAPIR - AN ASIAN MYSTERY BEAST RESURRECTED

 

[Chlidonias]

...an interesting photo i found online of a melanistic Malayan tapir that arrived at the zoo in 1924 and is believed to be a separate subspecies Tapirus indicus brevetianus.

actually even the article specifically says it is not a subspecies and was never described as one. I love how Shuker always takes credit for things that are blindingly obvious. In this article he only uses the phrase "...substantiates my belief that it is indeed a mutant morph..." but often he will claim to have "solved" a mystery, even right after saying he read it somewhere else. I'm also not sure why he thinks the record of the birth of a black baby "...is particularly intriguing, because tapirs of all species are normally born striped..." - of course a melanistic tapir is going to be born black.