Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden Budapest Zoo

Today I visited first time my home zoo in this year. The weather was wet, windy, temperature was around 15 C degrees. Certainly not the best zoo-visit weather...
First I went to the Ape House. This building exhibits Budapest Zoo's Western gorillas and Sumatran orangutans. Both have a baby. The 3 years old female gorilla cub (named Indigo) is a very cute and playful energy bomb, her existence is a life-enrichment for other gorillas. Unfortunately the 40 years old male gorilla named Golo shows stereotypical behaviours (turn his back on visitors, eat his own ****). Orangutans have a newborn male baby named Móric. He is only hanging on his mother what isn't surprising.
In the free roaming hall of Madagascar House, Ring-tailed lemurs were very playful. Once a visitor tried to pull a lemur's tail:mad:, but fortunately a zoo volunteer called him out.
Budapest Zoo's best exhibit is Australian Twilight for me, which is a walkthru hall in Australia House (former Bird House). Its inhabitants are Brush-tailed bettongs, a Ground cuscus and a plethora of Lyle's flying foxes. I spent half an hour there. Once a flying fox almost flown to my head.
Unfortunately Wombats and Echidnas were no-show:(
I saw a keeper who petted a young tapir. I was jealous of him, but I know this is only a small part of the zookeepers' job.
Young polar bear named Seriy shows stereotypical behaviour, whereon I'm not surprised, because his full-concrete enclosure is a lick of paint and his brother moved to Pairi Daiza a few months ago.
I always see more and more Muntjacs, Dholes and Warty pigs in the zoo. Today I counted 8 Muntjacs, 19!!! Dholes and 11 Warty pigs:rolleyes:
New Golden takins are wonderful.
I've seen Giant otters to play! This was my day's best experience:)
I highly recommend Budapest Zoo for anybody who plans an Eastern Bloc trip. If I get to it I'll happy to guide any of ZooChatters;)
( I'll upload my photos to the Budapest zoo gallery tomorrow)
 
Budapest's mayor, Gergely Karácsony gave an interview to Index. He mentioned the Biodome: based on his opinion Pannonia Park should be ready by 2024 at the earliest:eek::eek::eek: 50-50 percentage(8-8 billion HUF) of the costs will be covered by government and capital funds.
Karácsony also talked about the soon-to-be-announced competition for the zoo-directors.
Now nobody knows anything about the competitors. If I find out anything about them, I'll write to ZooChat right away.
 
I found the Biodome's full species list!:cool:
Interesting new species:
CHINESE PANGOLIN!!!
Goodman's mouse lemur
Dwarf slow loris
Malagasy jumping rat
Indian rhino
Bonobo
Grey langur
Lion-tailed macaque
Clouded panther
Caribbean manatee
Gharial
Varanus reisengeri
Varanus macraei
Chinese giant salamander
 
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