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How many kiwis does Frankfurt currently keep? Also, why did Frankfurt give Paignton a kiwi? Was it because of a trade or an EAZA recommendation?
 
zoogeekmaelstrom said:
How many kiwis does Frankfurt currently keep? Also, why did Frankfurt give Paignton a kiwi? Was it because of a trade or an EAZA recommendation?
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When I visited in 2023 they had 3 breeding pairs, with one offspring. And some solo males and one solo female. Using zootierliste they have 8,4,2 since 01/01/2024.
I would assume they moved a kiwi on breeding recommendation. The breeding program is tight nit and well managed. In general the larger facilities are used to form pairs that match before they place a pair. But I don't know about the move or gender so I have no clue.
 
Perseus6 said:
When I visited in 2023 they had 3 breeding pairs, with one offspring. And some solo males and one solo female. Using zootierliste they have 8,4,2 since 01/01/2024.
I would assume they moved a kiwi on breeding recommendation. The breeding program is tight nit and well managed. In general the larger facilities are used to form pairs that match before they place a pair. But I don't know about the move or gender so I have no clue.
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The gender is female. How many zoos have recieved kiwis from Frankfurt?
 
JurassicMax said:
Recently 4-year old female Okapi (Okapia johnstoni) Imani arrived from Kölner Zoo. According to the Instagram of Frankfurt zoo, she came from Antwerpen, which is incorrect since Kölner Zoo reported her move last month.

Sources:
Facebook of Kölner Zoo (29/01/2024)
Instagram of Frankfurt Zoo (24/02/2024)
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IMANI has given birth to a calf, that has been called SHIMONI.
Zoo Frankfurt on Instagram: "Na, wer kommt denn da aus seinem Versteck? Es ist, wie ihr bereits erraten habt, unser kleines Okapi-Mädchen, das bei seiner Mutter trinkt und die Anlage erkundet. Die kleine Abliegerin hat mittlerweile auch einen Namen: SHIMONI. Das ist Suaheli und bedeutet frei übersetzt so viel wie: "Mädchen, das im Graben wohnt." Die Mutter der Kleinen ist IMANI. Die Vierjährige kam im Februar bereits trächtig aus dem @koelnerzoo zu uns, hat das Töchterchen also quasi mitgebracht."
 
Frankfurt has made good progress on its master plan, starting from the 2019 concept note, and has now launched very impressive visuals on its website.

Visuals Masterplan - Zoo Frankfurt (zoo-frankfurt.de)

More info : News - Zoo Frankfurt (zoo-frankfurt.de)

They are even thinking of not 1 but 2 restaurants, quite revolutionary for those who know the situation of catering over the last decade :)

3 new halls, Serengeti, Manu and Lomami, all with large mixed species enclosures, exhibits for reptiles and others, free flying birds, an underwater hippo tunnel, etc.

All current key species appear to be retained.
 
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This is my personal opinion that is just as valid as that of the next person.
There are a few parks that I found to be my favorite, and one of these has always been Frankfurt.
I always used to joke about how the park would exactly be what I imagined central park zoo to be.
Its self speaking that its simply part of likelyhood that most often zoos would not coincidentaly happen to come up with the exact masterplan one would have envisioned for their institutions, though in some cases did certain concepts seemed to be almost common sense among enthusiasts, so that several people independently came up with the same ideas might say something.

Maybe its my autism, that I struggle to like this plan, I mean some parts look actualy unexpectedly promising, but then again would I have to say one thing that feels simply too rationaly plausible at least for me to dismiss.

A city zoo has an advantage further out laying institutions dont have and that is how easy they are accesable and thereby beating potential competition. So in ny opinion if an institution is given this priviledge they must live up to the oportunity. Meaning that they should in my opinion convert round about the landscape for smaller lesser know species. Dont even mean that they would need to get rid of all the larger species, but find a bit more of a balance between giant indoor areas and the amount of species kept. Now we had a lot of smaller enclosures then we would have what felt like three or four zones. They are also not that multidimensional that one could spend lots of time in each and then internaly think wow and now there are three more of them. I am not going to walk a few meters further and be like this angle offers me something totaly different rather than have my time and possibilities reduces compares to the previous model.

The first thought I had seeing the new design was munich, there might be a logic behind that thought but there might be another time and space to go into this.

This masterplan destroys the character of the park, it absolutely erasesthe architectural history of it, the heritage that grizmek left them.

Also do i find the new plan not too adaptive for the future. Neither with the case that certain species would become unavailable nor that the park would further evolve.

One thing that realy disappoints me is that the long term plan for the large cats neither meant any increase in size nor even room if they were to change their mind. I realy love the Katzendschungel, but I always found the enclosures too small.

Like always I cant speak for the animals, I have adopted this belief that with time we will only find out that the enclosures need to be bigger than we currently think is acceptable, and also its boring to only have one or two different perspectives, both in the literal sense and the behavioural spectrum of the species.

The reason these masterplans infuriate me so much is that they are the change I looked forward to and now sadly found out to be less than very possible.

Might be a naysayer or whatever people would call me but I think everybody in such a position should deliver something that would manage to win over skeptics.

Dont want to end my statement on a negative note but I feel as if they failed the potential.
 
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