Rotterdam Zoo Blijdorp News
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Polar bear Olinka
Any news on polar bear Olinka? Did she arrive well? How is she doing? Her twin boys are missing their Mum very much
Tania is doing pretty well here at Vienna. Find some photos and a video taken this Wednesday at zoobesuche.net.
Any news on polar bear Olinka? Did she arrive well? How is she doing? Her twin boys are missing their Mum very much
Tania is doing pretty well here at Vienna. Find some photos and a video taken this Wednesday at zoobesuche.net.
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Any news on polar bear Olinka? Did she arrive well? How is she doing? Her twin boys are missing their Mum very much
Tania is doing pretty well here at Vienna. Find some photos and a video taken this Wednesday at zoobesuche.net.
She is arrived and yesterday for the first time to seen outside.
Picture (c) Diergaarde Blijdorp / Zoo Rotterdam
Well, was Fanindra transferred to Rotterdam yet or is he still at Edingburgh?
Chuluugi, the male sea-otter that usually resides at Antwerp Zoo has passed away in Rotterdam Zoo. He was there for another attempt at AI, but if they managed to do it before he died is unsure...
feel really sorry for the keepers at Rotterdam who raised him from a found youngster
feel really sorry for the keepers at Rotterdam who raised him from a found youngster
The serval enclosure will be opened this weekend (april 10th). The colobus site (same kopje) will be ready before summer. So is the aviary for vultures, wich will be a walk through one. Species will be: Hooded vulture, African white-backed vulture, Ruppell's vulture, marabou stork, grey crowned crane, ground hornbill and black kite.
@ Jola, I didn't see a new indian rhino last week. In theory it could be behind the visitors area, or in one of quarantine quartes, but i guess some people would already know it and share that info.
And concerning the death of the male sea-otter. It seems to be that there was one last succesful attempt of artificial insemination, wich was the reason the male otter was in Rotterdam all the way from Antwerp.
@ Jola, I didn't see a new indian rhino last week. In theory it could be behind the visitors area, or in one of quarantine quartes, but i guess some people would already know it and share that info.
And concerning the death of the male sea-otter. It seems to be that there was one last succesful attempt of artificial insemination, wich was the reason the male otter was in Rotterdam all the way from Antwerp.
The zoo blog hasn't mentioend him departing yet (it usually would) so i'm assuming he's still in Scotland for now. Most likely paperwork holding things up.
According to Zoosite.nl (dutch zoo forum site) a klipspringer has arrived from Artis (Amsterdam Zoo) to finally make complete the crocodile river exibit together with rockdassies and african spurred tortoises; and thomsongazelles from Burgers' Zoo (Arnhem)(0.4) and Ramat Gan (Israel)(x.y) arrived for the savanna exibit, that will live together with giraffes and kudus.
Would this infer that Blijdorp will attempt with perhaps some other zoos to acquire klipspringers from Africa direct (as has been suggested previously) and resurrect a breeding programme for this fascinating species?
I've heared also, Rotterdam is trying to import Klippspringers from africa. Frankfurts attempts sevearl years ago have failed, so I hope, Blijdorp will have more success, because the european population of them is close to die out. I belive, only four or five klippspringers has left in europe.Two in FFM, one in Stuttgart, one in Rotterdam and maybe one in Artis ?
the one in Artis is moved to Rotterdam, so still just one in the Netherlands. And isn't FFM not keeping 3 klipspringers (a couple and a single male, at least that was the case last time I was there), anyway in the end there is just one female in Europe (the one FFM).
And so if we want to resurrect a breeding program there is a desperate need for importing a new group. Maybe it might be even smart to import animals from the Western population as that's the only subspecies that is being threatened.
And so if we want to resurrect a breeding program there is a desperate need for importing a new group. Maybe it might be even smart to import animals from the Western population as that's the only subspecies that is being threatened.
. But I'm afraid it will not happen in the very near future.I don't know how old the female at Frankfurt is now, but she is defenitely related to each of all other Klippsringers in europe, because all still living klippspringers are born in frankfurt. Maybe she is the mother of the Rotterdam animal or the sister. Next time in Frankfurt, Iask.
As far as I know, only Frankfurt and Naples has bred Klippspringers in europe. If I remember correctly, Frankfurt got only one time a klippspringer from naples. The breeding there has died out many years ago, as like as in Frankfurt a few years ago. I think, the last pair is too old to breed anymore. Frankfurt wants to phase them out.
As far as I know, only Frankfurt and Naples has bred Klippspringers in europe. If I remember correctly, Frankfurt got only one time a klippspringer from naples. The breeding there has died out many years ago, as like as in Frankfurt a few years ago. I think, the last pair is too old to breed anymore. Frankfurt wants to phase them out.