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Some better news from Frankfurt :
a Lesser Malayan chevrotain born
a Kikuyu colobus born
6 Gundis born from 2 different females ( 3 young each )
 
Lesser Hedgehog tenrec
Short Eared Elephant shrew
Green Acouchi
Emperor Tamarin
Luzon cloud-rat
Prehensile-tailed porcupine
Grey-handed owl-monkey
Moholi Bushbaby
Slender loris
Kowari
Australian water rat
Aye Aye
Grey mouse lemur
Fat-tailed mouse lemur
Eastern quoll
Seurat's spiny mouse
Golden Spiny mouse
Gundi
Southern Tamandua
Asian Garden dormouse
African dormouse
Feather-tail glider
Aardvark
Springhaare
Big hairy armadillo
White-faced saki
Cape ground squirrel
Blue-capped cordon-bleu
Sociable weaver
Northern tree shrew

I might have missed a couple of species, but that is what I can remember...
 
I miss:
Short beaked echidna
Two-toed sloth

and for the day section
Small-clawed otter
Dwarf mongoose
Golden lion tamarin
Komodo dragon
Rock hyrax
Lesser kantjil
Roulroul

and there is probably still more.
 
Male Hippo"Maikel"died yesterday-he swallow a Tennisball.He has lived at the zoo since 1977 and was very popular. Sad Story-the only Thing the zoo can do now is to send the female"Petra"to another zoo, and stop keeping hippos in the current exhibit.
 
Wish I could put this tennis ball into the throat of this idiot who throw it into Maikels mouth...
 
zoomaniac said:
Wish I could put this tennis ball into the throat of this idiot who throw it into Maikels mouth...
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Ditto! And I would help you...I knew Maikel since I was a child...Now I agree with the perfect idea to let walk zoovisitors through a zoo through Acryl tubes as like as in the aquariums...would be perfect for animals, and the zoogrounds keeps clean...At the closing time, the the visitors will be flushed out of the tubes by water...:)

So Maikels Death means the end of Hippos at Frankfurt for many years.:(
 
A sad and odious death. I wish one could have the dumb visitor(s) that provided the tools taken to task. But that is unlikely to happen ...

I hope and would suggest Kronberger Opel Zoo as the best location.
 
Kronberg has no space for a third hippo,( and teh hippo exhibit there is a Desaster) and "Petra"is the mother of"Max". And waiting until"Tana"has passed away isn't a good Option-she's doing well for her Age of 54 years and could live a few more years.Hannover and Cologne could take Petra, they have space enough for one more hippo, and both places are not interested in breeding them.

I ask me, whatfor people bring Tennis balls in a zoo....maybe bag controls like some places in the usa could be also an Option for european Zoos.Or Airport Scanners...
 
I meant this as Kronberg was meant / planning to upgrade / renovate their hippo exhibit. The fact quite a number of zoos do not breed is a wee bit up an iffy alley … (as the species as a whole is now threatened / endangered).
 
Bib Fortuna said:
Male Hippo"Maikel"died yesterday-he swallow a Tennisball.He has lived at the zoo since 1977 and was very popular. Sad Story-t..........
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This is, of course, very sad; a horrible incident.

It is by no means unique; a hippopotamus died at London Zoo in 1952 after a tennis ball was thrown into its mouth.
 
Tim May said:
This is, of course, very sad; a horrible incident.

It is by no means unique; a hippopotamus died at London Zoo in 1952 after a tennis ball was thrown into its mouth.
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I believe one of Dublin's Hippos died after a similar incident too. Possibly it was the mother of Whipsnade 'Hoover'.
 
Pertinax said:
I believe one of Dublin's Hippos died after a similar incident too. Possibly it was the mother of Whipsnade 'Hoover'.
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Indeed Dublin Zoo's female hippo also died in 2002 after swallowing a tennis ball; she was the mother of Whipsnade's male hippo "Hoover".
 
Tim May said:
This is, of course, very sad; a horrible incident.

It is by no means unique; a hippopotamus died at London Zoo in 1952 after a tennis ball was thrown into its mouth.
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Unfortuantely this happend several times in Germany. Two male hippos , father and son,died at Kronberg after swallowed a tennisball and beer can, at Stuttgart a male died on a Tennisball, also at Hannover a few years ago.Some strange Kind of a german Hobby...:(
 
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