Tiergarten Nürnberg cheetahs at Nuremburg

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Does anyone know if Nuremburg currently has king cheetah? According to another thread on Wuppertal Zoo, the king cheetah they had (not sure if it is still there or died) was born at Nuremburg. The Nuremburg Zoo website shows a photo of king and normal cheetah cubs on their zoo hours page, but does not list any info about them. Their cheetah info link is just general information about cheetahs in the wild.

Do they still have king cheetah and are they still breeding them?
 
Nuremberg is keeping normal cheetas, "Helen" (the one that died at Wuppertal last year) was the only king cheeta ever born at Tiergarten Nuremberg (*2000).
 
Too bad, as that is my favorite animal. But thank you for the update on kings at both Nuremburg and Wuppertal - I really appreciate it!

(I still hope to go to Wuppertal in a couple years to see the massive lion exhibit and the cool historic hanging monorail that runs through the city. It is an inexpensive 3 hour train ride from Paris and it actually makes things easier not having kings at Nuremburg so I don't have to figure out a way to get there.)
 
Arizona Docent said:
(I still hope to go to Wuppertal in a couple years to see the massive lion exhibit and the cool historic hanging monorail that runs through the city. It is an inexpensive 3 hour train ride from Paris and it actually makes things easier not having kings at Nuremburg so I don't have to figure out a way to get there.)
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Even without Helen the cat collection is excellent - the rarest taxon (in zoo terms) being the pair of Indian Leopards (P. p. fusca). The rest of the mammal and bird collections are also packed full of gems. It's not overall the most modern German zoo in terms of design (see the rather dated Ape House, for instance) but it's one of my personal favourites.

And the Schwebebahn hanging railway is well worth a ride - it's fantastically bizarre. I've attached a couple of my shots for those who have no idea what we're on about! It's over a century old as well. Fantastic stuff.
 

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Maguari said:
Even without Helen the cat collection is excellent - the rarest taxon (in zoo terms) being the pair of Indian Leopards (P. p. fusca). The rest of the mammal and bird collections are also packed full of gems. It's not overall the most modern German zoo in terms of design (see the rather dated Ape House, for instance) but it's one of my personal favourites.

And the Schwebebahn hanging railway is well worth a ride - it's fantastically bizarre. I've attached a couple of my shots for those who have no idea what we're on about! It's over a century old as well. Fantastic stuff.
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Yes the Schwebebahn is amazing, and it's also a bonus that you need to ride it to get to the zoo.
I dont understand why this idea didn't take off in more cities as it saves space and is away from other traffic so is speedy too.

Guess the downside is one of the trains came off the track a few years ago and ended in the river below.
 
This was in the news today:

"NURNBERG - A young cheetah has escaped from a zoo in Nuremberg. That stated the zoo today.
The 3-month-old animal climbed over a 3 meter high fence and fled. According to the statement the leopard startled when a fellow cheetah injured in a fall.
The zoo warns that the leopard is difficult to see, even close by, because of the color of the coat. Whether the animal is a threat, is not known."
 
"Whether the animal is a threat remains unknown"

Apparently whether the animal is a cheetah or a leopard remains unknown as well! :rolleyes:
 
is this a recycling of the news of the cheetah that escaped in January, or a new escape?
 
It is a new escape. In january the father of the offspring escaped, now a young one got out of the enclosure.
 
I was there, at this zoo, in late May. There was a huge crowd around the cheetah enclosure as they had 5 or 6 (I'm not sure) adorable cheetah cubs, all playing around their mother.

I sure hope they can catch this cub, before it gets hurt.
 
A visitor found it two days after the escape, it is alive and back to its mother and siblings.
 
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