Zoo Płock News from Płock

Two young Indian elephant males left the zoo yesterday and moved to Attica Zoo in Spata. In the spring will come two younger elephants from Emmen.
 
I'm planning to visit Plock Zoo on Saturday so I've tried to find some information about it, but there seems to be very little about the zoo on ZooChat. Does anyone have any advice or know any particular things to look out for? Based on Zootierliste, Plock seems to have quite a few unusual freshwater fish.
 
So now that I've visited Plock Zoo, I may as well post a few brief things here as I have done for Lodz Zoo in the Lodz news thread. I have also uploaded a few pictures from Plock Zoo to the gallery here: Zoo Płock - Photo Galleries | ZooChat

Plock is not a huge zoo, but it's a substantial enough size to be a half-day visit. The location of the zoo is very nice being right on the Vistula river with some woodlands in and directly next to the zoo grounds with some nice wild birds like waxwings, treecreepers, and Crested Tits.

Considering the size of the zoo, it has quite a diverse collection with a range of different birds, primates, and large and small mammals, however the major highlight of the collection is the very large (relative to the rest of the zoo) terrarium, and the similarly large aquarium located in the basement below with a nice collection including a few unusual species. In particular there were a lot of small fish that are unusual in zoos (according to zootierliste) but can sometimes be found in large aquarium shops (e.g. Poecilia salvatoris, Liberty Molly).

A lot of the zoo is quite modern and looked fairly new, and there weren't any obviously really old enclosures, though it was obvious that the zoo didn't have the budget to match some of Poland's bigger zoos like Warsaw, Wroclaw, or Poznan and enclosures weren't built to quite the high standard of the new enclosures in those zoos. There were some noticeably poor enclosures though and the elephant enclosure in particular was really very small (the picture in the gallery shows the entirety of the outdoor enclosure) and the big cat and giraffe enclosures were on the small side too but the zoo doesn't really have the area to build huge enclosures for its larger mammals.

Not a bad zoo though, all in all.
 
In autumn 2018 there were several births in Płock zoo: 2 pygmy marmosets (in ZTL as Cebuella pygmaea pygmaea), 1 scimitar-horned oryx, 1 pileated gibbon, 1 southern three-banded armadillo and 2 persian leopards!
It's a second litter of a leopard pair Orlando (m, born in France) and Sulakhat (f); one cub was also born this year, but unfortunately didn't survive. I was lucky to observe him for his first weeks.

In zoo also hatched 2 scarlet ibis and european bee-eater, for the first time for Płock.
(Source: Płock zoo FB)
 
A female snow leopard is coming to Płock!
Basira was born in Wuppertal and she will join a male - Dexter (born in Opole zoo).
When I visited Wuppertal in September last year, I was told that a young female will leave Wuppertal and move to Poland. And yesterday I finally saw this information in a short film about this transfer. Fingers crossed for Płock's new pair snow leopards' success :)
 
New lions arrived at Zoo plock this week. They are the 1-year old male Ullra from Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands. And two females, 6-year-old Chipo and 3-year-old Kimani, from Wildlands also in the Netherlands.

Source: Facebook ZOO Plock
 
Neva said:
A female snow leopard is coming to Płock!
Basira was born in Wuppertal and she will join a male - Dexter (born in Opole zoo).
When I visited Wuppertal in September last year, I was told that a young female will leave Wuppertal and move to Poland. And yesterday I finally saw this information in a short film about this transfer. Fingers crossed for Płock's new pair snow leopards' success :)
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Can anyone tell me what happened to Loki the male snow leopard that was born at Lakeland Wildlife Oasis in Yorkshire and who I believe moved to Plock Zoo in 2015?
 
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