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- Bogor, one of the zoo's bull Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) has been transferred to Selwo Aventura.
This transfer has been made because he reached sexual maturity at the age of 10. This move was coordinated by the EEP.
Selwo keeps two elephant cows (Jangolie and Tima), but nothing is mentioned about Bogor's role at Selwo.

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- Nima, one of the zoo's Giant otters (Pteronura brasiliensis) has been transferred to the Iberá national park to be rewilded.
This move has been coordinated by Rewilding Argentina, Nima is now living in a pre-release enclosure alongside Coco (a male from a Danish zoo) and two pups.

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A few days ago I visited this zoo, the last time I visited was more than a year ago, but as usual at the Madrid Zoo there are hardly any changes. Even so, here I leave you the highlights:
-The yak and camel enclosure is empty and without any signs.
-In the old bongo exhibit there is an ostrich and a group of dorcas gazelle with about 19 specimens
- The American bison enclosure was under construction and without signs. Has this species disappeared?
-In the chimpanzee building, we only find the group of chimpanzees and a couple of mandrill, the rest of the exhibits are empty.
-I don't know if it's been said before but the reptile building "Naturaleza misteriosa" has been demolished.
-The store and the cafeteria at the main entrance were under construction
-The two Siberian tigers were in sight, they seemed comfortable in their facility which has a climbing structure.
 
Thanks for sharing all this news! I really appreciate it, this zoo doesn't get much news coverage online so it's always nice to read what people have seen in visits.
The yaks and camels being empty is odd, maybe they plan to replace them with another species? If that's the case I hope it can mean the arrival of a more interesting ungulate than what came before. I really hope they don't get rid of the American bison though, it's a really fitting species for the zoo.
I hope they allow all the exhibits in the primate complex, they seem like ghastly glass atrocities but more space for the animals is always a good sign. I also wonder what they will do with all the empty space Naturaleza Misteriosa has left.
 
Honestly, I don't have very high expectations. What they have normally done with the empty enclosures has been to fill them with species that already exist in the zoo, join several enclosures or leave them empty. For example, in the European zone they removed the facilities for the peccaries and wild boars, one they made a garden, the other they simply filled with earth. In the Australian area they filled two facilities with maras and another with rheas. In a facility for felines they put ground hornbills. I'm not saying to keep large animals for small enclosures but perhaps they could be adapted for smaller animals and more interesting.
 
That's a good point to make, but all those refillings have been done for animals that passed away due to old age, right? If I remember correctly the zoo still proper groups of camels, yaks and bisons, so I doubt they'd just move them away to just leave their enclosures empty, right? I might be wrong since the population of the zoo is almost geriatric.
 
This is a great example of a zoo that's dying Little by little. Not because it's going to close, but because the owners' vision seems purely commercial: as long as visitors come and make money, the rest doesn't matter. Obviously this isn't an oficial versión, but it is my opinion after many viewings over the decades. The zoo is commercially very powerful, and it doesn't matter what animals they have, they've many visitors, so they don't need to invest in major renovations or new animals, or in improving the current facilities. In other zoos, species have been lost over the years, but this has translated into better facilities, more space and better living conditions for those that remain, but here that does'nt happen, the facilities simply remain abandoned and empty, and the collection is getting poorer and poorer. It's a shame, because this trend seems common in several Spanish zoos.
 
News:
- The Madrid Zoo will return the pandas to China, but Beijing promises to send two younger bears to Spain. Female Hua Zui Ba and the male Bing Xing, are already 21 and 23 years old, respectively, and Spain will have to return them to their native country soon. Given this situation, China has committed to sending two other younger specimens to Spain.
It has not been specified whether the two new specimens of panda bears will be destined for the Madrid Zoo and, when consulted by El Debate, this establishment did not want to provide information about the next renewal of the animals.

El Zoo de Madrid devolverá los panda a China, pero Pekín promete enviar dos osos más jóvenes a España
 
According to this video they will arrive in a few months time:

"Madrid Zoo Aquarium, in collaboration with the China Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA), will continue its commitment to the conservation of the giant panda with the return of a new pair in the coming months.

This was announced at the official event in which the return of the family of five giant pandas found in the Madrid Zoo to China was also announced. This concludes the agreement for technical cooperation and transfer of the breeding pair Hua Zui Ba and Bing Xing who arrived in Madrid in 2007, from the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base."
 
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