Breeding pair of Silvery gibbons (Flip and Alang-Alang) has a young born few days ago.
Greater flamingos have only 2 chicks. And it seems they have already abandoned their nests, even with eggs (dummies) still in.
The mixed colony of Caribbean, Chilean and hybrid flamingos has 5 chicks. Probably 3 of them Caribbean and 2 Chilean, but it´s hard to tell yet, some could be hybrids too.
It is rather depressing sight of flamingo enclosures in this zoo. Overgrown with unkept vegetation, it looks more like dark jungle than enclosures for sun-loving birds. Some chicks in last years had to be put down due to bad malformation of their legs (wrong nutrition). Very many adult birds have bad feet, worse than other zoos I visit. And it has been over decade when the zoo was able to produce +20 parent-readed chicks annually. The current bird curator either lacks interest or knowledge, at least it seems so. Prague zoo owns the very last breeding-sized group of Chileans in the Czech republic and it would be shame to slowly lose it, due to neglect.
Greater flamingos have only 2 chicks. And it seems they have already abandoned their nests, even with eggs (dummies) still in.
The mixed colony of Caribbean, Chilean and hybrid flamingos has 5 chicks. Probably 3 of them Caribbean and 2 Chilean, but it´s hard to tell yet, some could be hybrids too.
It is rather depressing sight of flamingo enclosures in this zoo. Overgrown with unkept vegetation, it looks more like dark jungle than enclosures for sun-loving birds. Some chicks in last years had to be put down due to bad malformation of their legs (wrong nutrition). Very many adult birds have bad feet, worse than other zoos I visit. And it has been over decade when the zoo was able to produce +20 parent-readed chicks annually. The current bird curator either lacks interest or knowledge, at least it seems so. Prague zoo owns the very last breeding-sized group of Chileans in the Czech republic and it would be shame to slowly lose it, due to neglect.
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