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One of the leopard sharks is already swimming with the hamerheads also several smaller fish species. But the display is still divided. Also there is a bubble screen in the front of the hamerhead side. Is that so they don't swim into the glas ???. I hope that will dissapear once the hamerhead are settled in.
 
There is a bubble screen placed just inside of the glass at the side of the hammerheads. It's indeed to prevent the sharks from swimming into the glass and they will be removed eventually.
 
0:1 Sumatran Tiger called Hujan recently left for West Midlands Safari Park in the UK, this leaves 1:2 Aryo the recently arrived male as well as Bayu and Deru the sisters (Hujan is also their sister!).
 
Toddy said:
I saw them in the big tank on March 6th. The tank was divided in the middle by a huge net with all the other sharks and other fish on the other side. I don't know how it is now, though.
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The hammerheads are now, since two or three days, fully released into the main tank. The dividing screen has been removed.
 
Their address in Japan

Jordan-Jaguar97 said:
Thankyou, do you know were abouts in Japan they went to?
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Bayu is in Yagiyama Zoological Park in Sendai City, North-East Japan.
Deru is in ZOORASIA YOKOHAMA ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS in Yokohama City, near by Tokyo.

I have not yet met them, but I have heard they both are in good health.
Bayu will try paring with the male tiger named Keahi from Honolulu.
 
A few years ago flatline white rhino cow "Gingabelle" was moved from Emmen Zoo to Burgers to see if they could get her reproductive cycle going. As far as I know, she did start to cycle but never conceived leading Burgers to ask help from the Berlin based IZW experts. They concluded that she had cysts in her ovaries blocking her ability to become pregnant.

This week, the experts came back to remove her cysts by surgery. They knocked her out, wanted to start the surgery only to find she is about three weeks pregnant!

Excellent news for her and the rhino EEP (if it all works out).
 
Excellent it is.

Sufficient proof that the new notion of a move and change of scene can dramatically alter the breeding prospects of rhinos ... (glad to see the coordinator taking a very active role in this). Even if it has been a few years since introduction (that is the case with Gingabelle).
 
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It has been 8 years since she has moved. And she switched places with a female from burgers, who also did not get a calf sofar. That's hardly 'sufficient proof'. The old male in emmen lost his interest in her, but shortly after the switch he died. It's even possible that the new male, who arrived in 2005, would have been attracted to her, since he is quite young, and the females in emmen probably too old for him. Gingabelle is younger, and would probably have better suited him.
 
Johnny, she would certainly never have bred at Emmen Zoo with their male. Females need stimuli to to have a regular cycle, including a male that stands is ground and is socially compatible with the female. Male Bort in his latter days certainly was not. The new SD WAP born male seemed not to take an interest (hence the social compatability stake).

Introduction of a new male and into a different environment will all have played their part ... as did the active involvement of IZW staff who know their stuff (allthough meself remain a keen proponent of natural reproduction over AI as the latter technique's success' rate at the moment is not very ...).
 
The new male didn't have any interest in the older females, but since gingabelle was a lot younger he would probably have been attracted to her. But unfortunately the switch occured when bort was still alive, and he died soon after.

I don't think the different environment played a part, she has been there for 8 years. So it's a completely familiar environment to her after so many years. It has been suspected that the actual problem was that she had 3 calves in a very short time period ( 1996-1999), and that it has been too much for her to handle.
 
Female cheetah moved to Vienna?

A new female cheetah, about 2 or 3 years old, arrived at Zoo Vienna early this week. She is doing well. It is said she is from the Netherlands (maybe Burgers' Zoo or Beekse Bergen?). Could someone confirm that she was born at Burger's zoo, pls. When was she born and what's her name?
 
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@Jola, she came from Safaripark Beekse Bergen not from Burgers Zoo, but that's all I know.

today Burgers Zoo celebrates it's 99th birthday and it opens an indoor playground for children. Fortunately no animals had to move for this, as it is built directly next to a restaurant.

In the coming year they will also build a new rhino stable and a bird quarantaine building. A really big project (ecodisplay) is likely to start at the end of 2013.
 
@ lintworm: thank you. Well, it's female cheetah Farida, born 2008, from Beekse Bergen. Anyway, she arrived safely and is doing very well.
 
Orangutan Maja

Female orangutan "Maja" was born in 2004 at Zoo Vienna. After her mommie died she was transferred to Arnhem at the age of a few weeks. Is she still there? How is she doing?
 
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