Zoo Bojnice Bojnice Zoo

czech_invertebrates said:
The new director of Zoo Bojnice is Emil Divéky elected on the 16th of November.
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A little detail about the new director. He has zero experience with zoos. He is chaiman of regional branch of SNS political party. SNS is minority part of the coalition of the new Slovak government of Fico that was sworn at the end of October. SNS is traditionalist (hardcore Catholics) and ethnic nationalistic (in the past called against Roma and Hungarian minorities) party that went into latest elections with thema of aligning with Putin´s Russia. Zoo Bojnice is owned directly by Slovak state and appointing its director is done by state ministry. Thus you see an examplary and open case of corruption in Slovak society. I love Slovaks as people and i´m partly Slovak but let me tell you this is just sad.
 
The zoo has a post on its FB about celebrating 50th birthday of their Chilean flamingo. The said bird was born in 1973 in Prague zoo and is probably the second oldest in flamingo flock in Bojnice.

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This post poses a small problem. Prague has probably not bred any flamingo chicks at that period. Zoo Pilsen breed first Chilean chicks in 1984 - the first ever time when any Czech or Slovak zoo managed to rear chicks of any species of flamingo (yes it´s incredibly late compared to zoos in Europe or US but illustrates how spartan and basic their enclosures/care/flock size used to be here for a long time). Pilsen zoo even commemorated that event by incorporating flamingo into their official logo.
 
 
 
Slovak authorities confiscated 3 young tigers fom non-licensed private keeper.

Slovakia banned private ownership of big cats, bears and primates in year 2022. Current holders are allowed to keep existing animals till their death but are prohibited to breed them or transfer them out.

The three seized cats are currently sitting in quarantine room of Bojnice zoo. They will be sent to Lionsrock Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa in several weeks after export/import papers are sorted out.

I could imagine Bojnice zoo would gladly donate them to any European licensed zoo instead. They seem less than 1 year old, 1 has normal color while 2 are white.

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The zoo rewilded an adult male European wild cat.

The cat was rescued in Slovakia in 2021 when it got injured and unable to hunt normal prey it targeted chicken of villagers instead. He arrived to back-stage rescue station of Bojnice zoo and could be cured back to health. It got paired with a female wild cat and sired one litter of 4 kittens. One of the kittens was successfully released into wilderness before, other 3 became part of captive breeding program. Now the adult male cat was rewilded too. The zoo made sure he is still able to hunt by feeding him live prey in recent time.

(BTW Feeding of live pray is prohibited in Slovakia. But the ban has two caveats - it´s allowed if an animal is in preparation stage of rewilding or if a captive animal refuses to eat anything else than live pray.)

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