Parc Zoo du Reynou Parc Zoo du Reynou

Antoine

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Quite funny to find nothing on Zoochat about this park !

This park is located in the middle west of France near the city of Limoges (100.000 inhabitants). It has a quite complete collection (giraffes, african, south-american and asian ungulates, big cats, monkeys...) for an average zoo with some highlights (persian onagers, vervet monkeys, bharals, visayan warty pigs, Philippines spotted deers, binturongs, kinkajous...).
The zoo is built around a castle with part landscape garden. It could be nice but a third of the enclosures are bad or uggly. But there are two large african plains and one asian plain, a really good sumatran tigers exhibit (built 3/4 years ago) and a double huge(1,6 hectares) natural enclosure for two polar bears.

Here you can find the internet site : Accueil - Parc Zoo du Reynou and the Facebook page : Parc Zoo Du Reynou

According to the map on the internet site the zoo will welcome bantengs this year.
 
Recent births :
- 4 indian swamp deers,
- 4 axis deers,
- 5 lemurs (don't know more),
- 13 egyptian fruit bats,
- 2 guerezas.
 
Some news from the park :
- after the recent death of the only old southern white rhino two new ones will arrived in june. The zebras' barn will be refurbished in this way.
- two new giraffes will arrive from Switzerland and les Sables d'Olonne.
- the past bisons plain will welcome bantengs and buffalos in may.
- next year visitors will be able to visit the park in trucks.
- the zoo want to creat 36 new lodges in the next years (they have 4 for the moment).
 
Some news from the park :
- two new giraffes will arrive from Switzerland and les Sables d'Olonne..

The first giraffe is Quendrim, male kordofan born 2019.03.27 in Basel, arrived March 23th, and the second is Moundou, male kordofan born 2019.04.24 in les Sables d'Olonne.

Video of the arrival of Quendrim :

From what we can see on this video and read on Facebook it appears that le Reynou has 4 giraffes (bachelor group I suppose as it was for a long time now).
 
Two young white rhino bulls (still nameless (?), born 2017 and 2018) were sent from Copenhagen to Reynou this week.

Really surprising the Zoo has not communicated on their arrival at this time !

Other news : birth of an indian swamp deer June 9th.
 
A new male roloway monkey arrived at the beginning of this month to form a new breeding pair with the resident female. Don't know from which zoo he came.
 
Some recent news :
- the zoo is building a new wolf enclosure with three new night accomodations.
- a hartmann's moutain zebra called Free arrived from Montpellier Zoo.
 
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