Some brief updates:
A gold takin was born some days/ weeks ago! Now it's 8 gold takins altogether.
The Brehm-building has received new "furniture": Some cats now have huge trunks or climbing constructions that reach further up than the previously highest platforms. They apparently enjoy this very much as some sat on the most elevated spots closely observing the visitors. A staff member told me that they just used the building crane while the windows were replaced. Well done. I hope this will be the model for the outside enclosures as well. By the way: The news magazine "Berliner Tiere" featured a rendering of the new outside boxes. Instead of 7 old boxes it will be 3 large (at least 4 times the size of an old one) and a slightly smaller one (double size of the old ones) for each side. The prairie dogs are to be relocated to the left front of the main entrance (near the huge lion sculptures) so they will greet all visitors that come to the Brehm-building from that direction. The article also states that we might have to wait for October for the interior to be completed (the last information indicated a proper reopening sometime between april and june). Bad news and this means the new contruction site will not succeed but add to the present one. But I just hope it will be nice in the end...
The visitor area of the polar bear enclosure is to be completed this Spring and the eagle aviary is to be started by that time.
The weather is still quite lousy by the way. We had quite some new snow this morning. The easter season may well see less ticket sales than usually...
A gold takin was born some days/ weeks ago! Now it's 8 gold takins altogether.
The Brehm-building has received new "furniture": Some cats now have huge trunks or climbing constructions that reach further up than the previously highest platforms. They apparently enjoy this very much as some sat on the most elevated spots closely observing the visitors. A staff member told me that they just used the building crane while the windows were replaced. Well done. I hope this will be the model for the outside enclosures as well. By the way: The news magazine "Berliner Tiere" featured a rendering of the new outside boxes. Instead of 7 old boxes it will be 3 large (at least 4 times the size of an old one) and a slightly smaller one (double size of the old ones) for each side. The prairie dogs are to be relocated to the left front of the main entrance (near the huge lion sculptures) so they will greet all visitors that come to the Brehm-building from that direction. The article also states that we might have to wait for October for the interior to be completed (the last information indicated a proper reopening sometime between april and june). Bad news and this means the new contruction site will not succeed but add to the present one. But I just hope it will be nice in the end...
The visitor area of the polar bear enclosure is to be completed this Spring and the eagle aviary is to be started by that time.
The weather is still quite lousy by the way. We had quite some new snow this morning. The easter season may well see less ticket sales than usually...
