Prague Zoo Praha Prague Zoo News 2014

Alesmos said:
Any news about future plans of the zoo or the new gorilla pavilion? :)
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Last weekend, a cornerstone for a new bird house (Rákosův pavilon) was laid, opening is sheduled for early 2016. It will be a long narrow house with two walk-through outside aviaries. Main focus is on large parrots - Lear macaw, hyazint macaw, rare caribbean amazons, palm cockatoo and Pesquet's parrot, plus other bird species mixed with them. The slope above this house will turn into vineyard. The house is being built thanks to inheritance left by a Czech private bird breeder Stanislav Rákos.

New gorilla pavilion should open in late 2016. The architectonical competition is still running I think, so there is no construction activity yet. At the same time, a new visitor zoo-entrance and a snack kiosk will open in its vinicity. City hall already approved funds of roughly 4,5 mio euro.

There are many other plans for future, but they were put on hold since the floods last year.
 
Press article:
Prague Zoo sees record number of young

Rare species among the 1,200 newborns this year

Prague, Dec 16 (ČTK) — The Prague zoo has succeeded in breeding 228 species this year, which is a historical record and many of the new arrivals are unique such as the giant mole-rats, the spiny-tailed lizards or the cotton pygmy geese, zoo director Miroslav Bobek said at a press conference.

Of the total of 1,227 animal offspring born this year, many are endangered species that are extremely difficult to breed. In some cases the Prague zoo was the first in the world or Europe to succeed in their breeding, Bobek said.

The Prague Zoo is the first in the world to have successfully bred the spiny-tailed lizard, a herbivorous reptile coming from the Iraqi-Iranian border area.

Another reptile that had offspring, after the attendants' five-year effort, is the rare quince monitor.

Among mammals, the birth of three giant mole-rats, an underground rodent that the Prague zoo keeps as the only one in Europe, in October is an extraordinary success.

Visitors, nevertheless, will probably find the cheetah quadruplet kittens more attractive.

One-month old now, they will be shown to visitors next spring, Pavel Brandl, who is responsible for the mammals in the zoo, said.

The biggest bird breeding success was the young cotton pygmy geese. In this case, too, the Prague Zoo is the first in Europe to breed this species.

“Nowhere else have they managed to keep the offspring alive,” said Antonin Vajdl, who is in charge of birds.

The raising of three young Egyptian vultures in a single nest, instead of usual two, is also exceptional.

After a nine-year effort, the zoo managed to breed the festive Amazon parrot, Vajdl said.

Other breeding attempts, nevertheless, have been a failure as the newborn young did not survive the initial critical period. This is true of the rare palm cockatoo, the aardvark or the Egyptian tortoise.

In the period to come, the Prague Zoo hopes to breed offspring by the numerous new animals that it acquired recently, including a male elephant.
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In other news, the zoo reached attendance of 1.350.000. This is comparable with year 2011, the best year in the history of this zoo.
 
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Hy everyone, I'm visiting Prague zoo and can't find feeding schedule or maybe even enrichment .. so if you know where to fint it online, I would be greatful. tnx
 
biol.pmf said:
Hy everyone, I'm visiting Prague zoo and can't find feeding schedule or maybe even enrichment .. so if you know where to fint it online, I would be greatful. tnx
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I can´t find it online in english too, only in Czech language.
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These commented feedings take place only during weekends and national holidays and are only in Czech. But after the feeding, the person is open for questions/small talk and most are able to communicate in English.

10:00 Feeding of aadvarks – giraffe house
11:00 Feeding of Humbolt pinguins – pinguin pool
11:30 Meeting in hippo house (no feeding, only chat)
12:00 Show of small trained animals – Bororo (old elephant house)
13:00 Feeding of flying foxes – Indonéská džungle house
13:00 Feeding of giant tortoises – tortoise pavilion
13:30 Meeting in giant salamander house (no feeding, just chat)
13:30 Feeding of young Komodos – tortoise pavilion
14:00 Feeding of Cuban Rock Iguana – big cat house
14:00 Feeding of big cats – big cat house (only Saturdays)
14:30 Meeting in gorilla house (only chat)
15:00 Feeding of orang-utans – Indonéská džungle (only Saturdays)
15:30 Meeting in giraffe house (only chat)

If you show your ticked from public transport (Prague bus/tram/undergroud or train or Prague steam boat) you get 20% rabat on entrance fee, but it is valid only till 31.12.
 
According to the HP, zoo Prague received 2,0 king vultures from Stichting Papegaeienhulp in March 2014.

More exciting are 1,2 lesser yellow-headed vultures received from TP Berlin and Olching, I quess.

In other news, the zoo has been hit by falling rouble and disappearance of russian tourists, ca 100.000 less of them bought a ticket in year 2014.

The final attendance figure for year 2014 is 1,38 million. A good year thanks to weather.

And there is a manned wolf cub and a young eastern wallaroo freshly out of pouch.

Have I mentioned a new Moloch gibbon´s pair that inhabits the former ruffed lemurs´s house? They are both young and came from Howlets and Munich.
 
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