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The wallaroos will be the fifth macropod species in Berlin, along with the benetts and parma wallabies, red kangaroos and yellow footed rock kangaroos.
 
Actually, the Tierpark also has some grey kangaroos - if that is what they are called, they are the grey equivalent of the red ones anyway ;)
 
Norwegian moose said:
The wallaroos will be the fifth macropod species in Berlin, along with the benetts and parma wallabies, red kangaroos and yellow footed rock kangaroos.
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You forget about one more species of kangaroo in Tierpark Berlin: Mainland Western Grey Kangoroo (Macropus fuliginosus melanops). They live on the former enclosure occupied by a Southern Cassowary.
 
Norwegian moose said:
Okay, I stand corected Berlin actually have six macropod species now! That is not bad for a zoo outside Australia!
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Mentioned by you species of kangaroos are now in Berlin (in both zoological gardens together). Tierpark Berlin has 4 species, and Berlin Zoo - 2 species.
 
Elephas Maximus said:
What a boastful name could it be in English-speaking country :D
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Nope it is actually in the Netherlands. If they would have added an -e- at the end it would have the same meaning in Dutch as it has now in English. Without the -e- it is just the name of the town the zoo is located in :p.
 
DDcorvus said:
Nope it is actually in the Netherlands. If they would have added an -e- at the end it would have the same meaning in Dutch as it has now in English. Without the -e- it is just the name of the town the zoo is located in :p.
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...and, pleasant though it is, it is not even the best zoo in the environs of Eindhoven.
 
Two tamanduas (1,1) are on display now in the pachydermy building. I have no idea if or how many there are left behind the scenes. At least two female ones died, though...

Other than that, there is some more news:
-Like the tamanduas, the short-beaked echidnas are fed at around 2 PM. This also is the only time these little cowards can be seen.
-the young wallaroos are both male
 
Summary of arrivals in January 2014 have been posted in photographic form on the Zoofreunde forums - the usual caveat regarding my translation skills applies :p

Births

3 Four-eyed Fish
1 Barbary Striped Grass Mouse
12 Neumann's Grass-rat
10 Naked Molerat
1 litter of Palawan Leopard Cat
1 litter of Dingo
1 Grevy's Zebra
7 Meishan (pig)
1 Brow-Antlered Deer
1 Ankole-Watusi
1 Hungarian Steppe Cattle
1 Dwarf Zebu
2 Tadjik Fat-tailed Sheep
1 Spotted Mountain Sheep
12 Domestic Goat

Hatchings

45 Mission Golden-eyed Tree Frog
9 Great White Pelican
1 Pink-backed Pelican
2 Australian Pelican
2 Goliath Heron

Sale/exchange

2 Pink-eared Duck
2 Freckled Duck
2Northern Shoveler
2 Red Shoveler

On loan

1 Australian earless lizard from Tiergarten Schönbrunn
 
Good news re: Palawan leopard cats! Interesting about naked mole rats, are these new or just off-show?
 
Al said:
Interesting about naked mole rats, are these new or just off-show?
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Both - offshow in the elephant house, having arrived from Dresden late last year.
 
On Feb. 2 a Red-capped mangabey has been born at Tierpark Berlin. Father is Valerius ( born 2007 ) and mother is Sina ( born herself at the Tierpark in 2006 ). It's the first young of this pair.
Tierpark Berlin plays a very important role in the European Red-capped population; of the 90 animals currently alive, 18 were born at the Tierpark !
 
The naked mole rats are on display now. They received a new exhibit in the giraffe building.

@zooboy28: The tamanduas are kept in the large cage previously inhibited by the "Faultiere" (don't know the correct English term right now).
 
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