Rotterdam Zoo Blijdorp News 2021

[Blijdorpenaar]

Some short bits of news:
-Back in the okapi aviary: the European turtle dove
-Some interesting births in this enclosure too this year: a violet turaco and multiple purple starlings
-After two deaths earlier this year, the luck of the lion-tailed macaques isn't imrpoving: a youngster died shortly after birth in november.
-New in the Oceanium: sailfin sculpins and shiner perches
-The Oceanium and Amazonica are being hooked up to a new ground-coupled heat exchanger, which will reduce the CO2 footprint of the zoo considerably
-Eggs for the Testudo kleinmanni, Cuora mccordi, spider tortoises, as well as ''eggs'' for the blonde skates
-Death of the male yellow-faced mynah, one of the last of its kind in Europe sadly.

Source + some minor mutations: Kort Nieuws #172

 

[JurassicMax]

-A new hyena seems to have arrived, no further details yet
Source + minor mutations: Kort Nieuws

The new hyena male "Karoi" came from Singapore, so he is unrelated to the European population (for so far I know).

Source:
Instagram of Diergaarde Blijdorp (13/12/2021) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXbrR1rK8ix/

 

[JurassicMax]

Some short bits of news:
-Back in the okapi aviary: the European turtle dove
-Some interesting births in this enclosure too this year: a violet turaco and multiple purple starlings
-After two deaths earlier this year, the luck of the lion-tailed macaques isn't imrpoving: a youngster died shortly after birth in november.
-New in the Oceanium: sailfin sculpins and shiner perches
-The Oceanium and Amazonica are being hooked up to a new ground-coupled heat exchanger, which will reduce the CO2 footprint of the zoo considerably
-Eggs for the Testudo kleinmanni, Cuora mccordi, spider tortoises, as well as ''eggs'' for the blonde skates
-Death of the male yellow-faced mynah, one of the last of its kind in Europe sadly.

Source + some minor mutations: Kort Nieuws #172

2 eggs of the Egyptian tortoises (Testudo kleinmanni) have already hatched, a zoo first breeding for Blijdorp!

Source:
Instagram of Diergaarde Blijdorp (30/12/2021) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYHcN1JK5nQ/

 

[Tiger]

I went looking for pictures where @cockatootle asked for and I've founded 2 pictures:
On the left side of the hall were the Chinese alligators, on the right side were slender-snouted crocodiles (Hakuna and Matata) and on the far right side of the hall were alligator snapping turtles. These are the 2 pictures:
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Hakuna and Matata
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Chinese alligator
This is all I could find

Maybe @cockatootle doesn't need this anymore by now, but I accidentally came across some photos of the crocodile (enclosures) in the Riviera Hall at the Rotterdam Zoo on the same Facebook page where I found the pictures of crocodiles in the hall last time. Here are the main pictures, probably I don't need to say on which date the pictures were taken, since it is on the picture, but maybe I should quickly add that the date on the picture follows the classification year/month/day:
Slender-snouted crocodiles:

Chinese alligator:

Here is the link to the source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=613215006686064&set=pcb.3075553896046175
I don't know if this belongs in this thread, but it was asked about and discussed in this thread.