Zoo Liberec Liberec zoo news

A bearded vulture chick hatched last week. Till last year, Liberec already rewilded 15 bearded vulture chicks they bred. This one is also destined to fly free somewhere in Europe.

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BTW Liberec has the most experienced birds of prey team among Czech zoos. It´s specialised in their care and breeding for 50 years. It´s a go-to place to get help or advice for bird staff of local zoos (in same way antelope or giraffe staff would call to Dvur Kralove).
 
Liberec zoo will soon get a competition that might affect negatively its attendance.

A "Papilonia" will open in a shopping mall within centre of the city (2 km from the zoo). No official opening date is known but it´s already started to hire staff. Papilonia is a business chain of walk-through butterfly houses popular localy.
 
A king vulture chick hatched in an artificial incubator at Liberec zoo this spring.

Olomouc zoo keeps a vulture pair that lays fertile eggs but hasn´t reared any chicks for 14 years. So this winter their egg was collected and transported to Liberec. It was incubated for 55 days and once the chick hatched, Liberec cared for it for first sensitive 10 days and then returned it to Olomouc. Olomouc´s keepers are hand-rearing the chick using a "vulture puppet" and the chick sits in a cage with direct view of its parents - to imprint on king vultures and not humans. It weights now 1 kg already and all hope it will fledge.

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Margays have a female cub born in January. It will gain access to on-show outside enclosure next week.

White-nosed coati gave birth 10 days ago but number of cubs is still unknown. They are kept off-show now because of planned plumbing construction work that affects their enclosure.

Tadjik urial herd has a new calf and it´s a little female.

During winter, the bird house got two new species - laughing kookaburras sit in one enclosure, while American kestrel flies freely in visitors´ space.

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Jana said:
A king vulture chick hatched in an artificial incubator at Liberec zoo this spring.

Olomouc zoo keeps a vulture pair that lays fertile eggs but hasn´t reared any chicks for 14 years. So this winter their egg was collected and transported to Liberec. It was incubated for 55 days and once the chick hatched, Liberec cared for it for first sensitive 10 days and then returned it to Olomouc. Olomouc´s keepers are hand-rearing the chick using a "vulture puppet" and the chick sits in a cage with direct view of its parents - to imprint on king vultures and not humans. It weights now 1 kg already and all hope it will fledge.

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Nice working together Mechanism between both zoos.
 
Two employees of Philippine Eagle Foundation from Mindanao breeding station are attending an internship at Zoo Liberec. They get hands-on training in keeper techniques like artificial incubation, artificial insemination, cryonic preservation of bird sperma and hand-rearing of different species of birds of prey under tutelage of Jan Hanel (curator of birds).

The aim is to help captive breeding program of Philippine eagles at Mindanao to increase its production of chicks.

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A set of 10 reptile tanks has been recently added to ZooExpo house.

Species on show:
- panther chameleon
- Henkel's leaf-tailed gecko
- Williams' dwarf gecko
- Guadeloupe anole
- emerald tree skink
- psychedelic rock gecko
- 3 Madagascar day gecko species (?)
The last tank will get probably a Union Island gecko in future.

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This is a very hairy elephant. I saw her some years ago and was struck by how hairy she was.
 
Rhino00 said:
The last elephant in the zoo - female Bala (*1984) will move to another institution in the second half of next year.
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I assume they have facilities in their sights where they could send their lone cow Bala to?

Have they publicly communicated anything on what future path the zoo will take in terms of the elephant exclosure and the general outlay of the Zoologichka Zahrada Liberec?
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
I assume they have facilities in their sights where they could send their lone cow Bala to?

Have they publicly communicated anything on what future path the zoo will take in terms of the elephant exclosure and the general outlay of the Zoologichka Zahrada Liberec?
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According to the article, everything is still under negotiation. Because of her problematic nature (she can't live in a large herd), it's possible she'll go to some non-zoo facility for old elephants (eg Elephant Haven). The elephant exhibit will be reconstructed for the new species. The financial situation of the zoo is not very good, the elephants could theoretically return in the future, but to a new exhibit, which will be expensive for such a zoo, so it is quite unlikely.

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@Rhino00, Thanks for providing the source!

It seems Liberec Zoo has a (realistic) intention to focus on smaller endangered species. The Zoo has recently also "lost" its last white (hybrid) tiger and will have an extension area of 12 hectares at its disposal. The outlay of this area is not suited to holding elephants in future (observation as per the current zoo director).

I will be very interested to learn what smaller endangered species they are looking at for the future development of the old zoo (tiger complex and ex pachyderm area) and the new extension area.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
The outlay of this area is not suited to holding elephants in future (observation as per the current zoo director).
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It isn´t, but there was also some mention of another area, near the entrance, where some smaller facility for bull(s?) could be eventually built... once
For forseable future, zoo is, as you said, focusing on other projects

Kifaru Bwana said:
I will be very interested to learn what smaller endangered species they are looking at for the future development of the old zoo (tiger complex and ex pachyderm area) and the new extension area.
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Yup!
Maybe elephant paddock will be use for extension of giraffe paddock?
About carnivore house - as far as I know, it should serve to lions only? (and possibly some other small species) Don´t know if there is planned some other enlargement or refurbishment in near future
 
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