Short news from European Zoos

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glyn said:
between all of us lets begin a list of european zoos who have either a-bred elephants recently or b-have adequate or new elephant facilities in which breeding could be anticipated.

Okay- UK- Chester(Asian) A & B. Colchester (African) A & B. Howletts(African) A& B Port Lympne(African) probably B (no bull last year). Dublin (Asian) B. Twycross(asian) A but probably not B!
Knowsley(African) A/B. Woburn(asian) B. Whipsnade (asian) A & B.

Europe- Cologne/Koln(asian).B. Emmen(asian) A & B. Rotterdam(asian) A & B.
Vienna(African) A. Must be several others in Europe but I can't remember.
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Writhedhornbill said:
Chester's male (chang) has gone to Le Pal Zoo in France, to be paired with 4 females.
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Chang is the father of the two calves born at Twycross, after their mothers were sent for mating to Chester. He also bred with his own halfgrown daughter Sithami in the Chester group, and their female calf is Sundara. I believe the latest male calf born in November is the first fathered by the new herd bull- Upali.
 
- Amsterdam (asians, received a pregnant female from Rotterdam who gave birth and now holds a young bull, B).
- Ouwehands Zoo Rhenen (Africans, recently completed female exhibit with 0.2, bull-pen nearing completion and anticipating receiving a further 1.1, B),
- Safaripark Beekse Bergen (Africans, had one miscarriage sofar with 1.5 with all reasonably young females, B)
- Amersfoort (Asians, young bull coming at age slowly, allready got the lowest female in rank pregnant and still needs to conquer the higher ranked females, A+B)

- Copenhage Zoo (asians, currently constructing large elephant enclosure allready breeding, A+B)
- Hamburg Zoo (asians, recently opened large enclosure and had a calf, A+B)
- Leipzig Zoo (asians, recently opened large enclosure and not sure if they bred there yet, B)
- Berlin Tierpark (asians and africans, A+B)
- Wuppertal Zoo (Africans, A+B)
- Basel (asians, A+B if i'm correct)
- Antwerpen (recently acquired bull on breeding loan, hoping for pregnancies, about to build a large enclosure at their open range facility Planckendael)

Bound to be a few more (Zurich too if i'm correct) and a few more zoo's are planning on building a new facility like Praha Zoo (who allready hold a bull and two or three females...). Duisburg, Dvur Kralové and Monde Sauvage also hold breeding groups of africans but nothing seems to be happening there sofar, i don't know about Hodenhagen Safaripark but that park isn't participating in EEP's afaik...). Paris bred in the past, don't know their current situation...

As far as i know, Zoo Elephant - Asian Elephants at the Zoological Gardens of the World is very up-to-date about asian elephants worldwide...
 
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paris zoo-i visited ther ein october 2005. there old asian elephant exhibit is empty, in fact, many of their exhibits were empty. from what i could tell it consisted of alot of concrete shaped to look like rocks and boulders, and a sloping moat, and shaded by trees.
im not very good at speaking french, but from what i could piece together both at the zoo, from the donation boxes and zoolex this place was on the brink of closing. a renewal plan and funding agreement has since commenced, happily, so maybe this zoo will return to being worthy of the french capital. despite the run-down atmosphere, exhibits for giraffe, penguin and some hoofed animals were outstanding, in fact the zoo policy seemed to be one of closing the worst down. now they sit empty, the concrete flaking off the fake walls, but at least the animals now live in the better environments. this place even had giant pandas in the not-too recent past!
 
glyn said:
paris zoo-i visited ther ein october 2005. there old asian elephant exhibit is empty, in fact, many of their exhibits were empty. from what i could tell it consisted of alot of concrete shaped to look like rocks and boulders, and a sloping moat, and shaded by trees.
im not very good at speaking french, but from what i could piece together both at the zoo, from the donation boxes and zoolex this place was on the brink of closing. a renewal plan and funding agreement has since commenced, happily, so maybe this zoo will return to being worthy of the french capital. despite the run-down atmosphere, exhibits for giraffe, penguin and some hoofed animals were outstanding, in fact the zoo policy seemed to be one of closing the worst down. now they sit empty, the concrete flaking off the fake walls, but at least the animals now live in the better environments. this place even had giant pandas in the not-too recent past!
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First of all, Paris has two zoo's namely the Jardin des Plantes and the Bois des Vincennes. The one you visited (I can never keep them apart) was due to be closed and completely renovated at that time, but they decided not close it during it's renovation proces. They are now on their way with renovation and the big centerpiece, a large concrete rock with viewpoint is back open.

They should be back to it's original splendure at around 2012 i believe, wheither they make it or not i don't know. Do know that work is in progress :)
 
jwer said:
First of all, Paris has two zoo's namely the Jardin des Plantes and the Bois des Vincennes. The one you visited (I can never keep them apart) was due to be closed and completely renovated at that time, but they decided not close it during it's renovation proces. They are now on their way with renovation and the big centerpiece, a large concrete rock with viewpoint is back open.

So by this description(and having had Pandas)this must be the Vincinnes Zoo, which is actually the more modern Zoo in Paris. It is/was a much better zoo than the very old -fashioned Jardin de Plantes, which is more like a historic museum piece, so its good that it is being renovated and upgraded.
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yes it was the vincennes zoo. and i got to climb the 'grande roche' to the top and got some great pictures of paris from up there.
there were no carnivore (big cats) or bears on exhibit, nor any rhino, great apes or reptiles. birds were limited to swans, (spectacular) flamingoes, pelicans, rhea and marabou stork, oh and penguins and vultures. there were few small mammals...a very odd collection of animals, but enough 'big animals' to beef the zoo up and make it worthwile.
really hope it is restored, it certainly has the potential to be an amazing place! and i honestly think its good for city citizens to have access to a great zoo to remind us of our place in the world (and of what were losing)!
 
I went there(Vincennes) once very many years ago. The only thing I remember clearly was a big rockwork enclosure with a large number of Guinea Baboons- this subspecies is fairly unusual in zoos. Port Lympne have a group which came from there recently. Also the elephants. There is lots of 'rockwork.'

Interesting you say a lot of species were currently missing. I remember that the Jardin de Plantes- the very old style place- had the far superior animal collection at that time- particularly many rare ungulates including unusual wild sheep and goat species. But the enclosures there are mostly terrible.
 
after you zoopro, you seem so interested, or maybe mr hornbill woudl like to, his question after all...
 
Mine is the Tapir. I may have mentioned it on Another Thread. Did you see the Gorrilas at Chester. They moved/died before I first went or maybe before I was born
 
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