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Kirkesgaard said:
As I have received some great advice here for our trip to Burger Zoo, I wanted to share a quick recap of our visit there this last Friday.

We were lucky to have picked the best day of the week as the summer has been quite wet and unstable in the last couple of weeks. On Friday, except for one shower we had a perfect day.

As suggested we made our way straight for Bush to catch a glimpse of the Aardvarks. The keeper was still cleaning the enclosure and the Aardvarks were "somewhat" active while they moved from one sleeping spot to another :) ... a male and two female are in one, the third female in another enclosure. They posed a bit for our cameras and then huddled together for their dayly nap. We passed through a couple of times during the day and also had a nice chat with the keeper. We love Aardvarks so it was great to see them. Of course if you have a "night house" like Frankfurt or Berlin - and / or feeding times then your changes of seeing them a bit more active are higher.

We found the habitats in Burger Zoo quite impressive - if maybe a bit focussed on the scenery, and with limited number of (larger) animals on display. Heaving said that it is still fun to spot birds and other smaller creatures (I would probably enjoy doing a tour with an ornithologist.

Other than our Aardvarks I think we were probably most impressed by Ocean and Safari. Ocean has some really great big Aquariums. At the end of our day we set a while in front of the big shark tank, but also the smaller riff aquariums are very impressive and invite to sit and discover ...
Safari is also fun to sit there for a while and watch the events around the watering hole. The little Rhino is up and about and Mama is making sure it stays safe, if necessary making the point quite clearly ... the gnus (?) have also a few young with them.

The lions and chetahs are in seperate areas :) and here it was especially thrilling to see mama chetah with five young who play around here. Great sight.

The other three habitats are also definetely worth seeing, Mangrove being a bit smaller than the other areas and Rimba offering some great enclosers again to sit and watch the action - especially the monkeys are giving quite a show. The Desert I think I liked a lot for the scenery but I felt it was a bit "underpopulated" ... even though the sheep and the Pekaras were quite cute to watch.

We arrived right at opening time and it was the best one or two hours of the day. It never got overcrowded, but at some of the more popular spots it was great to be there early (in the afternoon the Gorilla viewing point was a bit of shoving and pushing) ...

All in all i would say it is a unique zoo with some very nicely done habitats. I wish there was guided tour options or a more detailed tour guide / book. But very worth the visit which we enjoyed.
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Have you seen the manatee's?
 
DNA reseach on a Eagle ray born at Burgers had a big suprise. The young is an exact copy of its mother and don't have a father !
 
vogelcommando said:
DNA reseach on a Eagle ray born at Burgers had a big suprise. The young is an exact copy of its mother and don't have a father !
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thats right. Unfortunately the animal died 3 days after it was born, cause of death was an bacterial infection.
 
For the first time in Europe 2 second-generation Blue-spotted stingrays were born. The parents were captive born and came from Lisbon and Salzburg. The 2 young are 1 male and 1 female ( FB ) :)
 
The Kea-pair at Burgers are a brother/sister pair but now an unrelated male has arrived from Warsaw Zoo ( Poland ) :)
 
Lowland Gorilla, Shatilla died today following a short illness

To our great regret we have today unfortunately have to say goodbye to the adult female gorilla Shatilla. She had been seriously ill for several days, but this morning her condition deteriorated drastically. Our vet has Shatilla therefore extensively studied directly, but her situation was so bad that he unfortunately in consultation with biologists and carers euthanasia has to decide. Pathologists at the University of Utrecht going to do extensive research into the causes of the disease of our gorilla.
 
Two couples of Gambel's Quails and Scaled Quails have arrived in Burgers Zoo. All 8 animals live free in the Desert.
 
Tomorow ( Feb. 11 2015 ) a Spotted eagle-ray - born at Burgers - will leave for Hagenbeck Hamburg. Burgers is spreading their captive-born rays to other collections because several females are pregnant and will bare new young soon !
 
Chaca chacalaca have entered the collection, the animals will be introduced in Burgers Bush, bringing the number of free flying bird species up too 35 again (after the last pink pigeon recently went away / died).
 
0.4 African Lions arrived from Givskud on 13th March. They replace the previous adult females who recently moved to Dvur Kralove
 
lintworm said:
Chaca chacalaca have entered the collection, the animals will be introduced in Burgers Bush, bringing the number of free flying bird species up too 35 again (after the last pink pigeon recently went away / died).
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I guess it should be Chaco chacalaca ;).
BTW last weekend 4 Capybara's were born at the Bush :).
 
Burgers has kept for some time a brother pair of Binturongs. Now one of the is send to another zoo and Burgers recieved instead a new female.
 
For the TV-serie "Burger's Zoo Natuurlijk" the film-crew wanted to make use of a drone to make some clips of the famous Chimp-enclosure from above. One Chimp wasn't happy with this distutbance of its privicy, took a branch and took down the drone !
The tape made by the drone was saved ( the drone itself not ) and can be seen here ( in Dutch ) :
Chimpansee Burgers' Zoo haalt drone uit de lucht (video)
 
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