Zoo de La Palmyre News from La Palmyre

Rémi, a young 2 years old bull Rothschild's giraffe, left the zoo for a park in Spain (name not mentionned) where he will form a breeding pair with a young female (EEP recommandations).
La Palmyre will receive a young female before the end of the year to continue breeding (I suppose the other females in the zoo are too old or have non breeding recommandations).

 
Recent news :
- birth of red-ruffed lemurs triplet (1.2) in april,
- Riva, a 19 months old female Rothschild's giraffe, arrived from Knies Kinderzoo in Swintzerland in june,
- a male marabou stork arrived from Rotterdam to form a breeding pari with the resident female,
- birth of three female sudan cheetahs at the end of May,
- eight royal pythons have hatched.


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I'm doing some research about the french population of sea lions in captivity. Somebody has knowledge about the history of the population of California sea lions in La Palmyre ? The births ? The deaths ?
 
Antoine said:
Pictures of the refurbishment of the pas polar bears exhibit into giant otters exhibit :











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Unfortunately there will be no enlargement of this space that is really tiny and I am afraid there will add just mock rock and nothing more to this area :(
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The giant river otters are coming this autunm.

Cet été girafes, zèbres et lions ont été ravis de vous voir plus nombreux au zoo de La Palmyre | Actu La Rochelle
 
Small light in the dark : the last snow leopard, a 9 years old male, left the zoo yesterday for Zoo Chorzów in Poland. The zoo will no longer held the species and the enclosure will enlarge the Sri Lankan leopards one.
The new enclosure will not be too large at all but it remains a good news for the leopards.
 
Brazilia, the female giant otter who arrived at the beginning of the year died on October 7th. The cause of death is said to have been drowning when the otter got stuck in a decorative element of the pool.
 
Jana said:
Wow, so many chicks! Well done. Chileans are not doing as well as other flamingo species in Europe so this is positive development.
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Though off-topic, I'd like to ask what is the fate of James's and Andean flamingos in Europe?
 
Mickey said:
Though off-topic, I'd like to ask what is the fate of James's and Andean flamingos in Europe?
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Berlin mixed flock breeds a chick here and there but breeding doesnt cover deaths in longer term. Slimbridge doesnt breed at all for decades, but refuses to send their birds to Berlin.

These two species will die out in Europe. Due to their longevity, it will be extremely slow demise taking half a century.
 
Jana said:
Wow, so many chicks! Well done. Chileans are not doing as well as other flamingo species in Europe so this is positive development.
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The zoo has a flock of something like 200 flamingos divided into american (small group at the entrance) and chilean (huge group on the main zoo pond) so not surprising to see such breeding success.

But wait for next year : maybe Beauval will have en extra large flock in the new giant south american aviary and, hopefully, a lot of chicks in the following years.
 
Antoine said:
The zoo has a flock of something like 200 flamingos divided into american (small group at the entrance) and chilean (huge group on the main zoo pond) so not surprising to see such breeding success.
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I was far away from the current situation : the chilean colony counts now 350 birds and with the american colony the zoo is now home of 430 birds :cool:
I suppose this is one of the three european zoos with the more flamingos together with GaiaZoo and Sigean.
 
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