Saarbrücken Zoo Saarbrucken Zoo

the outdoor exhibit will be south of the ape house on the present guanaco/ nandu area. they want to use the upper part of the area, which will be around 1400m².
the masterplan pictures the wuppertal zoo gorilla exhibit as the model.

regarding the numbers of gorillas there right now, i cant give you further informations...
 
Some breeding-successes from Saarbruecken :
Ring-tailed lemur
Serval ( at least 2 young )
Ring-tailed mongoose ( Galidia elegans ).
 
the new gorilla exhibit is suppossed to be done by the end of this year...but since it all started with a delay, i guess it will take much longer.
 
Some news from the Zoo:
- the gorilla outdoor exhibit is open since summer and looks great. Right now there is one male (Pesco) and two females, but they are thinking about enlargening the group. Pictures of the exhibit can be found on the zoo's website
- The zoo is building an enclosure for Southern Cassowarys. It will be where the muntjacs used to live, next to the bird house.
- Behind the present lemur-complex, a new aviary will be build for ring-tailed lemurs. For visitors it should be able to walk inside it.
- 18 new humboldt penguins are living in the renewed seal pool
- After the dead of one of the oldest jaguars in captivity, Saarbrücken now only houses two jaguars. For the free space, they will get (2) mountain lions this winter.
 
Altough it is nice to have another holder of cougars, I ask me, why they don't use the second Jaguar exhibit for the two Jaguars, for each of them ONE exhibit, instead of sharing one in change, if the animals can't be kept together-another exmaple for zoos still have to learn how to keep animal in better conditions...

By the way-where you got the info about the cougars ? is there a sign at the empty exhibit ?
 
The information was shared in the german zoofreunde-forum but first it was the director of the zoo himself saying that in an interview.
I also wonder why not use the whole exhibit for jaguars. It's one of the best in Germany.
But after having some successful breedings, the male got castrated, since there are no more zoos looking for jaguars. They expect the couple now to use the majority of the enclousure, while the cougars are in the right wing of the house. (That's what I heard and read so far). I hope to visit the zoo within the next weeks.
 
Aardvark born March 10! Sex is still unknown, but it is called"Elise".Not the first aardvark birth at that zoo, but the first surviving young, but it is handraised. It is doing well and after six weeks, it weighs now 5 kg.

So also the third german zoo with that species has bred them, hopefully sucessfully.
 
That's great news! Although I am not totally pleased with the enclosure, its great the aardvarks are breeding and the baby is doing well so far.

In other news, a male cougar is living in SB since last december. It came from Salzburg Zoo. Before Christmas also works started to re-design the entrance as well as the place around the jaguar-house. The goal is to have a more "inviting" entrance area with new pay-desks, a zooshop and new administration building.
New compounds which are planned to be finished this year is an enclosure for cassowaries and a new ring tailed lemur cage.
 
The aardvark exhibit is a desease, but aardvarks do not belong into a nocturnal house anyway-only germany is outdated enough to go on keeping them in in there, while most other zoos in europe keep them now with access to outdoor exhibits.

By the way-belive it or not, but there are some aardvarks exhibits which are even smaller and more worse than Saarbrücken, Bronx-Zoo, Philadelphina, Cincinnati....
 
Tigger86 said:
a male cougar is living in SB since last december. It came from Salzburg Zoo.
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Is this a permanent move? And where is he living?

Tigger86 said:
Before Christmas also works started to re-design the entrance as well as the place around the jaguar-house. The goal is to have a more "inviting" entrance area with new pay-desks, a zooshop and new administration building.
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Although not as exciting as a new animal exhibit, this is much needed - the current entrance area is pretty grim, and the 'shop' a joke, really.
 
The cougar is in the left, big jaguar exhibit.

Pumas will made their comeback to german zoos.Some zoo interested people felt pitty they dissappered for a long time, and now, where some german zoos are plan to bring them back, some of them are afraid to see them soon everywhere, very funny story....Yeah, if a former rare kept species become"common"it is not anymore interesting enough and not worth to talk about. So let us see what will be happen with the gerenuks......

By the way-I like Pumas nevertheless theyy are not a rare species in the wild....I also like merkats!
 
Tigger86 said:
The zoo just received to two female red pandas..the are living in the former squirrel monkey exhibit
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The open-fronted one? If so, a shame, I think - this was an excellent monkey exhibit (better when it had macaques), but it's hard to imagine it as working for red pandas....
 
some small news from zoo saarbrücken:

- a young female mountain lion is now accompaning the male Maxxum
- the red pandas are living in the former macaque/squirrel monkey exhibit (the open-fronted one). The pandas are very active and climbing around a lot. Living in the waters of the exhibit are now chinese pond turtles and carps.
- The enclosure for the Southern cassowary is finished and really spacious. A pair of chinese muntjacs are also housed here now.
- The walkthrough-exhibit for ringtailed lemurs is close to be finished. The keepers already letting few visitors inside the current lemur cage from time to time, probably to get the lemurs accustomed to people.
- The penguins already have their first successful breeding. Offsprings are also found with the drills, the aardvarks and the ring-tailed lemurs.
 
2 new enclosures at Saarbrucken :
one for the Ring-taile lemures
one for the Casuary and the Muntjacs.
 
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