Tiergarten Schönbrunn News from Schonbrunn

Two questions:

Any Rhino-News ? Any matings of the pair ? Both are very important animals for the population, so if they are not breed together, they should exchange with Whipsnade.

2.Is there maybe a new guidebook available ? The last edition is now 5 years old with the tiger on the cover, but many things have changed in the meantime-hopefully, the Zoo will publish again a guidebook-in germany, they will be extinct in 10 Years....
 
Vienna is claiming a world first in rearing the 'giant' jellyfish Rhizostoma luteum.
(In 'google translate English): in the Tiergarten Schönbrunn, the offspring of a rare sea dweller is the world's first successful: the Rhizostoma luteum. The jellyfish was discovered in 1827 in the western Mediterranean. However, it happened so rarely that their existence was doubted," said the director of the zoo, Dagmar Schratter. The umbrella species from the order of Rhizostomae can reach a diameter of up to 60 centimeters. Currently about four centimeters big, baby jellyfish can be seen in the Aquarium House.
"The marine researcher Karen Kienberger of Jellyfish Research South Spain has for its research activities caught off the coast of southern Spain an animal", Schratter reported. "In the laboratory, it has been discovered that the jellyfish was sexually mature, and we passed Planula larvae." 30 baby jellyfish were reared.
 
Another report, in better English, about the jellyfish:

Vienna Zoo director Dagmar Schratter said: "The giant jellyfish was discovered in 1827 in the Western Mediterranean, but is so rarely seen nowadays that some scientists had doubted its continued existence. The fact that specimens are still alive was only confirmed a few years ago when a few of the animals were stranded on beaches in Morocco and Spain."
Rhizostoma luteum can span up to 60 centimetres (24 inches) and can weigh up to 50 kilogrammes (110 pounds) when fully grown. And it still remains a mystery in many ways. Schratter said: "Not a lot is known about the species. Oceanographic researchers from Jellyfish Research South Spain managed to catch a specimen of this jellyfish off the coast of southern Spain. At the laboratory, they discovered that the jellyfish was sexually mature and collected planula larvae which were sent to us."
The zoo painstakingly raised 30 baby jellyfish from planula to polyp and finally to jellyfish. The zoo has taken photos of all developmental stages and collected important data which will be forwarded to other parties for further collaborative research.
 
Another world-first breeding for Schonnbrunn : at the end of March a Augrabies or Broadley's flat lizard ( Platysaurus broadleyi ) hatched.
2 years ago Schonnbrunn recieved 2 pairs of this species and is the only holder of this species in Europe ( not mentioned on Zootierliste ).
 
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