ZOO Plzeň Plzen zoo news

HOMIN96 said:
One of the most anticipated publications by Zoochatters every year - Plzen's annual report, is online! Zoo nerds assemble!
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Lost in translation?: "Especially after 1998, a large collection of smaller mammals was assembled in the Pilsen Zoo, including airplanes, rodents, afrosoricides, toothed, damselflies, insectivores, marsupials, etc".
 
Dassie rat said:
Lost in translation?: "Especially after 1998, a large collection of smaller mammals was assembled in the Pilsen Zoo, including airplanes, rodents, afrosoricides, toothed, damselflies, insectivores, marsupials, etc".
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Haha, where have you found it?
airplanes = bats
toothed = probably Xenarthrans
damselflies = ?? no idea
 
Jana said:
Haha, where have you found it?
airplanes = bats
toothed = probably Xenarthrans
damselflies = ?? no idea
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Looking through the entire annual report and searching for all instances of "1998" it appears the quoted passage doesn't actually appear in the annual report at all - I suspect this is just another of Dassie's extremely strange jokes....
 
Dassie rat said:
The passage comes from '003 Gallery Small Mammals' on this page: Animals | Pilsen Zoo (zooplzen.cz)
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Ah, so entirely unrelated to the annual report you quoted Jana discussing - hence the confusion.

It appears your browser auto-translation is the culprit as that passage is entirely in Czech and reads as follows:

Zejména po roce 1998 byla v plzeňské zoo sestavena velká kolekce menších savců z řádů letouni, hlodavci, afrosoricidi, chudozubí, damani, hmyzožravci, vačnatci atp. Někteří obývají zákulisí zahrady. V galerii jsou zastoupeny i druhy již nechované.

...which at my end translates fairly cleanly on Google as the following:

Especially after 1998, a large collection of smaller mammals from the orders of bats, rodents, afrosoricids, toothless, hyraxes, insectivores, marsupials, etc. was assembled in the Pilsen zoo. Some inhabit the backstage of the garden. Species that are no longer bred are also represented in the gallery.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
which at my end translates fairly cleanly on Google as the following
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For me damani doesn't translate - it just remains as damani. However if I do it in reverse and translate the word hyrax into Czech the result is daman. (But the plural hyraxes in English remains as hyraxes and not damani).
 
Birth of 1.0 Wisent on June 8th.
Zoo a BZ Plzeň on Instagram: "Matka rekordmanka aneb vedle takinů čerstvé mládě zubra. V sobotu 8. června porodila téměř devatenáctiletá samice zubra evropského Radbuza zdravého samečka. Vzhledem k tomu, že se zubři v lidské péči dožívají průměrně dvaceti let, je toto mládě opravdovou raritou. Pro Radbuzu je to již deváté mládě narozené v Plzni. Pro čtyřletého samce Omara, kterého jsme si dovezli z @zooolomouc , je to teprve první potomek. The record-breaking mother. Newborn European bison calf next to the takins. On Saturday, June 8th, an almost nineteen-year-old female European bison Radbuza gave birth to a healthy male. Considering that bison in human care live to an average age of twenty years, this calf is a real rarity. For Radbuza it is the ninth calf born in Pilsen. For the four-year-old male Omar, whom we brought from Olomouc, this is only the first offspring. #zooplzen #zoopilsen #zoo #calf #europeanbison #european #bison #baby #babyboom #plzen #pilsen #offspring"
 
The new house for Angolan colobus has been opened today. It houses a Colobus group that returned from Prague (1.4)

The house has an indoor exhibit room, two separation boxes, keepers area and one outside cage. The house is connected with two islands on the lake (with mature trees).

Source with pics

The zoo also mentions final species line-up of the walk-through aviary behind Amazonie house. Instead of white-faces sakis and night monkeys, it has now
- black-rumped agouti
- green aracari
- great kiskadee
- northern Marail guan
- grey-winged trumpeter
- blue-headed parrot

Source
 
Andreaghido said:
does plzen still have the jackal and the pacas?
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Pacas were sent away last year.

Last male jackal was still present at the end of last year (per annual report) but a visitor reported its usual enclosure has no longer the sign and was under construction few weeks ago. The last jackal might still be hidden somewhere bts but could also be dead (it was rather old animal).
 
wild boar said:
Does anyone know if there have been any recent sightings of Panay cloudrunners or have any general updates about the species?
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Until recently the state of play was as follows; despite repeated attempts to locate any surviving animals in the wild, no evidence of the species being extant had been detected since early 2016.

However, a heavily decomposed animal was found in February 2020 - although only reported in July 2021:

Panay Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat in February 2020 by Flavio Nava. Body was decaying, infested probably by fly larvae; seen along trail. Habitat is composed of dens... · iNaturalist Canada

More recently, a single individual was captured in October 2023:

RMN Iloilo 774

So, they seem to be on a knifes edge.....
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Until recently the state of play was as follows; despite repeated attempts to locate any surviving animals in the wild, no evidence of the species being extant had been detected since early 2016.

However, a heavily decomposed animal was found in February 2020 - although only reported in July 2021:

Panay Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat in February 2020 by Flavio Nava. Body was decaying, infested probably by fly larvae; seen along trail. Habitat is composed of dens... · iNaturalist Canada

More recently, a single individual was captured in October 2023:

RMN Iloilo 774

So, they seem to be on a knifes edge.....
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Despite how horrible the situation is, I am at least glad there is one captive in the Philippines right now. Hopefully more are found and captured soon. Thank you for the link.
 
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