Short news from European Zoos

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looking at isis clouded leopards have recently been born at prague, howletts and the rare species conservation centre at sandwich, kent. Hopefully they will all be successful
 
The young at Prague are a couple that recently came from Howlett's and both their offspring are fine and now a couple of months old. Frankfurt also had i believe 2 young (or at least 1) and i haven't heared anything negative so i guess they're ok.
 
i think to be honest most of the clouded leopard in europe can trace their way back to howletts
 
One of the three lion cubs of Rotterdam Zoo drowned in the water yesterday. It is not certain yet what caused the fall into the water but it seems she lost control over her body. We're waiting for an official statement of the zoo. The lions were inside today, no public allowed.

The three young polar bears of Ouwehands Zoo moved to Dierenrijk Europe in Mierlo. This is just temporarely until the new polar bear enclosure in Rotterdam is finished (begin 2008). The old polar beas enclosure of Ouwehands is to be renovated and the building of a third enclosure started. Thid will be a special males enclosure.

In Emmen Zoo a hippo died three days after its birth.
 
Very! On a hippo-related note, Copenhagen Zoo will recieve 3 new hippos from Emmen Zoo in about a month, when the new Hippo House opens on october 12th
 
Yes, it will be the present male, who is only temporarely in Emmen, and two of the females. Beware of him: Polo is a very huge hippo! I think you will like him.
 
Huge hippos are the best :cool:. I thought we were just getting a young male, but this sounds great :D. Im so looking forward to seeing him. Perhaps i should take a few pictures of him when he gets to his new home, and upload them just for you Dutch zoofans to enjoy ;)
 
And another baby Bottle-nosed dolphin at Duisburg. They had 1.3 so the two youngsters are a big addition to the group. Their habitat is okay, nothing spectacular but fitting for 4 animals...
 
Two female hippos (named Dhary and Loekje) were transported to Copenhagen today. Polo, the giant hippo man is leaving for Copenhagen next Monday.
 
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Two female hippos (named Dhary and Loekje) were transported to Copenhagen today. Polo, the giant hippo man is leaving for Copenhagen next Monday.
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Sounds great! I just got an exclusive tour of the new Hippo House during an event for all the Copenhagen Zoo employees. I got to see the waterfilter, the backstage boxes where the hippos can eat and rest, and of course the main enclosure. It will be great to see our new hippos soon :cool:
 
Any news on further hippo births or pregancies in the Emmen group?
At the last count just the one calf on 15/9/2007?
 
In 2007, 8 giant otter cubs were born in german zoos - 3 in Hagenbeck and a litter of 5 in Dortmund. All are alive and a couple of months old, having survived the critical time. This has been a great year for giant otters in Europe! One zoo stated keeping them (Due de la Fointaine in France), they built a great enclosure. Let`s hope they will start breeding soon. Another zoo (Heidelberg) wants to keep them, they have selected the old malayan tapir enclosure, but I don`t know if construction work has already started.

It was also a pretty good year for south chinese leopards iin german zoos. The Tierpark Berlin and Hagenbeck in Hamburg swapped the males and both zoos produced a litter of 3 cubs each with the new breeding pairs. I am not sure about the gender of the cubs in Berlin; in Hagenbeck it was 2.1. One male died but the other 2 are doing well and live together with the father, the mother and the grandmother in the large outdoor enclosure. A small zoo (Limbach-Oberfrohna) also had a litter of 3 female cubs of this leopard species. I am just hoping that they take part in the EEP!

The Erfurt Zoo had recently a birth of a male spider monkey (ateles belzebuth hybridus - not sure about the scientific name). The birth was very difficult for the old mother (over 30) and unfortunately the baby must be handraised. Nevertheless an important birth for that rare species.
 
Chester's female spider monkey is really old, and it had a youngster this year.

Will the Chestnut centre in the U.K be getting a female giant otter to go with it's current young male?
 
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