Kyiv Zoo Kyiv zoo

Status of animal collections on 01/07/2012: Mammals – 68 species (256 specimens), Birds – 96 (720), Reptiles – 55 (197), Amphibian – 31 (268), fish – 48 (550), Invertebrates – 48 species.
 
Elephant bull Horas broken the right tusk against fence, after the cables were replaced by metal pipes to 'prevent him from rubbing' (which choice did he have other than stereotypic behavior?!)... Tusk is broken at gum level and pulp is exposed.
I'm afraid that Horas is repeating the fate of his predecessor Boy, who also broken his tusks...
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Did the Ukrainian media give more details about the building process?
The newspapers I read only metioned that Ms Panettiere and mr Klitschko "made it possible" or some such.
This is great, no question, we need more prominent arm twisting in the zoo world!!

What I see here is, builders and zookeepers made the most of the meagre possibilities they had, and it looks like they just called a solid local construction company.
No great names.
Because this is what I reproach a lot of zoos: they want the new houses built by star architects! => expensive and often ugly (Stuttgart. The new Givskud projekt)
 
He got a completely new indoor housing, which was expanded as much as the building's boundaries allow (demolition of more solid walls is dangerous), and the outdoor exhibit is converted from the past wolves' one (which originally belonged to gorillas...) There would be grass and climbing structures, and I guess hot wire with water moat as boundaries.
Anyway, Tony is quite old (he turned 40 this year), and the zoo is certainly NOT getting other gorillas in future, neither as company for Tony nor as replacement when he dies.
Those exhibits can be used probably for lemurs or monkeys then.
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Elephas Maximus said:
He got a completely new indoor housing, which was expanded as much as the building's boundaries allow (demolition of more solid walls is dangerous), and the outdoor exhibit is converted from the past wolves' one (which originally belonged to gorillas...) There would be grass and climbing structures, and I guess hot wire with water moat as boundaries.
Anyway, Tony is quite old (he turned 40 this year), and the zoo is certainly NOT getting other gorillas in future, neither as company for Tony nor as replacement when he dies.
Those exhibits can be used probably for lemurs or monkeys then.
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Is that his old outside cage on the right? In which case it now connects via the little bridge to the new open areas. Has he dared go outside into the 'open' yet I wonder?
 
Pertinax said:
Is that his old outside cage on the right? In which case it now connects via the little bridge to the new open areas. Has he dared go outside into the 'open' yet I wonder?
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He will go outside next year, it's too cold now.
To the right, there are probably outside cages for smaller primates of the same monkey house.
 
Any think worth seeing here?

Depending on flights into Kiev I may have a spare morning for a trip around the zoo? Only in for a day (CL final) and want to do some tourist sites in the afternoon before the game.
 
Hello Taun.

You may be interested in the nine-banded armadillo, Arabian barn owl, Caspian gull, Cuban and Mongolian toads, Orlov's, black-spotted casque-headed and pied warted tree frogs, Dumeril's Madagascar swift lizard and three-lined girdled lizard. Kiev also has the only Pallas's rose finches, red-spotted beaked snakes and venerable collared lizards listed on ZTL.
 
Dassie rat said:
Hello Taun.

You may be interested in the nine-banded armadillo, Arabian barn owl, Caspian gull, Cuban and Mongolian toads, Orlov's, black-spotted casque-headed and pied warted tree frogs, Dumeril's Madagascar swift lizard and three-lined girdled lizard. Kiev also has the only Pallas's rose finches, red-spotted beaked snakes and venerable collared lizards listed on ZTL.
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Thanks.
 
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