Pairi Daiza Pairi Daiza News 2020

KevinB said:
It seemed to me that the great white pelican group in the pygmy hippopotamus/pelican exhibit next to the Mersus Emergo was substantially larger than it was last year. I also noticed that there were great white pelicans in several other exhibits: one in the Père David's deer and crane exhibit in the Chinese area, one in the giraffe/Ankole-Watusi cattle/Ostrich paddock and five on the lake with the Russian restaurant and the pontoon terrace.
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They received 15 white pelicans from Artis last year I believe.
KevinB said:
In the Oasis there was an exhibit that was not there yet in October of last year, housing an adult female and a sub-adult black howler monkey. I don't know why they are housed separately from the group on the island next to the Mersus Emergo. Next to the howler monkey exhibit was a second, smaller new exhibit housing cotton-top tamarins (previously housed elsewhere in the Oasis).
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These two howler monkeys have been housed there for a few years now. Two years ago they were kept in the back left corner between the entrance and the restaurant area. I believe they were separated because they didn't want to mix the mother and child with the two newly arrived females at that time.
 
Pairi have announced on their Instagram that Asian elephant Soraya is expected her first calf! She is expected to give birth by the end of the year according to the post and if everything goes well it will be the third time in two years that a calf is born at Pairi. With the new calf, Pairi will have 23 elephants living in the reserve, a European record afaik.
 
amur leopard said:
Pairi have announced on their Instagram that Asian elephant Soraya is expected her first calf! She is expected to give birth by the end of the year according to the post and if everything goes well it will be the third time in two years that a calf is born at Pairi. With the new calf, Pairi will have 23 elephants living in the reserve, a European record afaik.
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23 elephants in total that is, not all of them live in the main reserve as they are split into at least 4 different groups (of which 1 African group). They do have the largest amount of elephants, that's been the case now for a few years I recall. Wether they have the biggest herd is another more doubtfull case.
 
Jarne said:
23 elephants in total that is, not all of them live in the main reserve as they are split into at least 4 different groups (of which 1 African group). They do have the largest amount of elephants, that's been the case now for a few years I recall. Wether they have the biggest herd is another more doubtfull case.
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Yes, they have the biggest herd of asian elephants in Europe. Their elephants are divided into these groups:
1. African elephants- Suzy, Chitana
2. Older asian elephant cows- Jana and Praya
3. Sayang's family- Sayang, Saphira, Sitara, Thambi, Ravi
4. Mala and Khaing Hnin Hnin's family- leader cow Mala, Khaing Hnin Hnin, Aye Chan May, Farina, Soraya, Amithi, Malay, Nang Faa, Ta Wan, Malee, Luna
Bulls Chamundi and Po Chin live separately or with different herds.
The largest herd is therefore the fourth herd. Leipzig or Cologne compete a bit, but they don't have as many elephants in one herd.
 
KevinB said:
Five new blackbuck (one male, four females) have arrived at Pairi Daiza from Krefeld. They join the four blackbuck already at Pairi Daiza to form a herd of nine.

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I assume this might have been the end of blackbuck management at Zoo Krefeld, right?!
(or would this be some of the offspring born over the years there?)
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
I assume this might have been the end of blackbuck management at Zoo Krefeld, right?!
(or would this be some of the offspring born over the years there?)
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With concrete plans to replace their Asian Savannah exhibit with one for mountain zebras, I think Krefeld going out of blackbuck entirely makes more sense...
 
ShonenJake13 said:
With concrete plans to replace their Asian Savannah exhibit with one for mountain zebras, I think Krefeld going out of blackbuck entirely makes more sense...
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This comment and further discourse should really be in the Zoo Krefeld thread. I will ask to mods to place it into the Krefeld Zoo threads.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
This comment and further discourse should really be in the Zoo Krefeld thread. I will ask to mods to place it into the Krefeld Zoo threads.
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Why would you ask about Krefeld news in a Pairi Daiza thread then....? :confused:

In other news, if the rumours are correct then from what I’ve heard PD are down to just one Tasmanian devil....
 
I am unaware of which one is left - I have only heard a rumour from a close friend in Belgium that there is one left. The males were both at quite an age - I’m unsure of the female’s age.
 
ShonenJake13 said:
I am unaware of which one is left - I have only heard a rumour from a close friend in Belgium that there is one left. The males were both at quite an age - I’m unsure of the female’s age.
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The female is 4 I think - hence my assumption the two 7-year-old males are the ones which have died.
 
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