Web Camera Tip!

[Dan]

Probably one of the best zoo web camera installments in the world is found in Sweden! The new tiger enclosure at Kolmården Zoo - a rather good one, covering 4 800 square meters - is documented by no less than ten cameras, operating 24/7, on:

Tigercam - Kolmården - Vilda djur. På riktigt.

At best, they are updated every second. Mostly, though, they are a little bit slower.

 

[Jana]

I think there was an older thread with a similar name, but I cant find it, so i will use this one.

There is a new web camera Young of the Forest (?eský rozhlas) from Dvur Kralove, you can watch the young okapi female Etana. She should deliver in September for the first time.

 

[Dan]

To expand the subject a bit, I am very fond of the use of "360 degree diaramas" (not sure about the English here, but you know what I mean, don´t you?) as a visual tool on zoo websites. You know: a 360 degree photograph, that you can "spin around", for instance showing a certain exhibit at the zoo.

Zoo Leipzig in Germany uses this feature very well. Check it out:
Startseite - Zoo Leipzig

Click on one of the several icons on the top of the page: "Afrika", "Asien" etc. Then you get the option to watch several "diaramas" or "Rundumblick" as it´s called in German.

 

[Dan]

PS to my "thread start"

For some reason, the web cameras at Kolmården´s tiger exhibit has "got stuck" for a few days now. Hope this is solved as soon as possible. It is such a great feature when it works.

May as well take the opportunity to do some PR for this exhibit. It´s rather good, as I wrote in my thread start. 4800 square meters, divided into two sections:

Section one is a piece of authentic pine forest with natural cliffs, lots of places to hide, explore, climb etc. A wooden shack where the animals tend to gather in bad weather, but they also like to relax on its roof.

Section two is more "sculptured" or "man-made": a flat grasslands with features like surrounding "temple ruins" - forming the barrieres of the exhibit, also an "abandoned bus" in the middle of the grass (vistitors can come into this bus via an underground tunnel) and a "fallen" big head of a Buddah statue (on which the cats love to rest).

Section two can be watched through glass windows, meaning you can get within an inch of the tigers. Both sections can also be watched from above - four or five meters above.

Section one and two are divided by a "river", with rocks for the cats to cross the water on.