Any idea whether these are male or female?
Any idea whether these are male or female?
Last year's cub was a male and was sent to Todd Dalton / Feral Project by the end of the year, the cub of this year also appears to be male.
Great news! The population (at least a couple of years ago) was/is female-biased, so a few males are welcome.
No unfortunately not, but they post basically all births, deaths and transfers, so still gives a reasonable overview.
Elephantelephant
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Kölner Zoo: Freude über Nachwuchs bei den Elefanten
Great news!!! Elephant cow Shu Thu Zar gave birth to a calf. She is a cow and she is doing well. It's great that after a few bulls they have a cow again.
Great news!!! Elephant cow Shu Thu Zar gave birth to a calf. She is a cow and she is doing well. It's great that after a few bulls they have a cow again.
Elephantelephant
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Very nice video from the birth of an elephant calf. One of the sharpest I've ever seen.
The zoo received a sum of 350.000 euros from the Friends of the Zoo Association to build the new Coquerel sifakas exhibit. First step, an indoor facility will be built in the old elephants house with three enclosures. It will be finished for the end of summer. Second step, the old outdoor elephant paddocks will be refurbished and connected to provide good climbing opportunities for the animals.
First the Zoo will house two animals.
Kölner Zoo
First the Zoo will house two animals.
Kölner Zoo
New male Przewalski horse arrived and was introduced to the females :
At the end of May a Greater Bamboo lemur ( prob. a male ) was born at Cologne 
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Colognes last Grizzly bear - female Frederike - died last Saterday at an age of 36.5 years 
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What will live in their former enclosure?Colognes last Grizzly bear - female Frederike - died last Saterday at an age of 36.5 years
Unsure, probably too early. But the article mentioned the area would be used for endangered bear species. Sun bear was mentioned ...
Some more intresting breeding-results :
- Sumatra prevost squirrel
- Papuan mountain-pigeon
- Sumatra prevost squirrel
- Papuan mountain-pigeon
A late reaction: according to their masterplan the old bear dens will be replaced by a aviary for Humbold pinguin and spectacled bear enclosures.
The sunbear will be housed in the present gorilla enclosure, once these primates are moved to their new Congo exhibit.
During November some nice breeding-results with the fruitdoves :
- White-eared brown fruitdove - 1 hatched
- Black-naped fruitdove - 1 hatched
- Pink-spotted fruitdove - 2 hatched
- White-eared brown fruitdove - 1 hatched
- Black-naped fruitdove - 1 hatched
- Pink-spotted fruitdove - 2 hatched
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Probably not the best place to post this but Cologne zoo and its sending of Philippine crocodiles to the Philippines for reintroduction purposes is mentioned in this interesting Mongabay article :
Rare captive-bred crocodiles develop new, ‘odd’ habits in Philippine wild
Rare captive-bred crocodiles develop new, ‘odd’ habits in Philippine wild
JurassicMax
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In February an Eastern Ring-tailed vontsira (Galidia elegans elegans) was born.
Source:
Instagram of Cologne Zoo (12/04/2021) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNjiumgHhUK/
Source:
Instagram of Cologne Zoo (12/04/2021) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNjiumgHhUK/