Wildlands Emmen Wildlands Adventure Zoo News 2021

The indoor areas in Dutch zoos were allowed to reopen last weekend, also in Wildlands. In Nortica, new aquariums were built during the closure. Since it is a small space, it only opens on quiet days. Wildlands Blog' visited and posted pictures on their Facebook: Facebook - Wildlands Blog

The space has three aquariums with the following species:
Aquarium A1:
Small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
European flounder (Platichthys flesus)
European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)
Tub gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna)
Pouting (Trisopterus luscus)
Thicklip grey mullet (Chelon labrosus)
Shorthorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius)
European lobster (Homarus gammarus)
Common starfish (Asterias rubens)

Aquarium A2:
Viviparous eelpout (Zoarces vivparus)
Rock gunnel (Pholis gunnellus)
Shorthorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius)
Shore crab (Carcinus maenas)
Common brittle star (Ophiothrix fragilis)
Common whelk (Buccinum undatum)
Beadlet anemone (Actinia equina)
Ascidian (Ascidiacea sp.)

Aquarium A3:
Starry smooth-hound (Mustelus asterias)
Small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
Spotted ray (Raja montagui)
Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)
European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)
Thicklip grey mullet (Chelon labrosus)
 
Mr Gharial said:
Wildlands seems to have built a new gibbon island in the Rimbula greenhouse, in the pool of the Asian elephants

Scource: Change in the park map
https://www.wildlands.nl/uploads/download_widget/WL_plattegrond_2021_06-2021_NL1.pdf
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That island has always been there. It is indeed next to the elephants.

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Photo credits: @snowleopard
 
In the aquariums of Animazia there is now one aquarium with seahorses and filefish (No specific species mentioned)

The small-spotted catsharks in the new Nortica aquarium have laid eggs

Three red river hogs were born last week, this is a first for wildlands

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Wildlands has gained a lot of fish from Artis, now including Congo tetra (Phenacogrammus Interruptus), Rainbow cichlid (Pelvicachromis pulcher) and Peter's elephantnose fish (Gnathonemus petersii)
 
Mr Gharial said:
Wildlands has gained a lot of fish from Artis, now including Congo tetra (Phenacogrammus Interruptus), Rainbow cichlid (Pelvicachromis pulcher) and Peter's elephantnose fish (Gnathonemus petersii)
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The congo tetras are not new, they have had them for some time. The other two species are indeed new.

Kifaru Bwana said:
In which aquarium hall are they kept?
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They are in one of the aquariums in Animazia, the indoor playground.
 
Last Friday I went to Wildlands. My last visit was last year. A few things have changed in the past year. Most of them have already been mentioned here, but I still saw a few things.

Serenga:
- The savannah has been changed at the corridor to the stables. It has been adapted so that there is no longer a funnel shape, and the savannah animals can flee from the rhinos if necessary.
- The Vicuñas in the 'Kleine woestijn' have been joined by the greater rheas that used to be with the wallabies.

Nortica
- Been to the new Nortica aquarium for the first time. It's all very nice, but taking pictures of the animals is almost impossible because of the reflections in the glass. There are also some changes in the species: new species in the A2 aquarium are the shanny (Lipophrys pholis), the serpent star (Ophiura ophiura) and the stony sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus). In the A1 aquarium the European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus) and the ice seastar (Marthasterias glacialis) are new.

Jungola
- The sunbittern are now in the Birdy Bush instead of in Rimbula.

Animazia
- In the aquariums of Animazia many fish species have been added in the past year. Most of the new fish come from the temporarily closed aquarium of Artis. The signs have not been updated yet, but if I'm correct the following species can be found in the large reef aquarium:
Green turtle (Chelonia mydas)
Emperor angelfish (Pomacanthus imperator)
Foxface (Siganus vulpinus)
Lookdown (Selene vomer)
Orbicular batfish (Platax orbicularis)
Palette surgeonfish (Paracanthurus hepatus)
Pennant coralfish (Heniochus acuminatus)
Powderblue surgeonfish (Acanthurus leucosternon)
Redbelly yellowtail fusilier (Caesio cuning)
Sailfin snapper (Symphorichthys spilurus)
Spiny chromis (Acanthochromis polyacanthus)
Argus fish (Scatophagus argus)
Spotted unicornfish (Naso brevirostris)
Threadfin butterflyfish (Chaetodon auriga)
Yellowbar anglefish (Pomacanthus maculosus)
Yellowfin surgeonfish (Acanthurus xanthopterus)

Also in the smaller aquariums of Animazia they have added fish from Artis.
- In the first aquarium the Siamese glass catfish (Kryptopterus vitreolus) has been added.
- Copperband butterflyfish (Chelmon rostratus) have been added to the second aquarium.
- In the third aquarium, Longsnout seahorse (Hippocampus reidi) and Bristle-tail file-fish (Acreichthys tomentosus) have been added. From that same aquarium, Razorfish (Aeoliscus strigatus) and Horned Boxfish (Lactoria cornuta) no longer seem to be present.
- In the fourth and fifth aquarium, there are no changes.
- In the sixth aquarium, Glowlight tetra (Hemigrammus erythrozonus) have been added.
- In the seventh aquarium Rainbow cichlid (Pelvicachromis pulcher) and Peter's elephantnose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) have been added.
- The eighth aquarium still holds the axolotl's.
- In one of the aquariums also wrestling halfbeak (Dermogenys pusilla) has been added, I just don't know which one.
 
Male Rhino ‘Limpopo’ is moving from Beekse Bergen to Emmen, hopefully to breed with Zahra and Elena. This might stimulate ‘Gus’ the zoo’s current rhino who has been there since 2016, but has not sired any calves. :)
 
TigerStripe said:
Male Rhino ‘Limpopo’ is moving from Beekse Bergen to Emmen, hopefully to breed with Zahra and Elena. This might stimulate ‘Gus’ the zoo’s current rhino who has been there since 2016, but has not sired any calves. :)
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I wonder if bull Gus/Flannery has ever been evaluated reproductively. My experience is that if it do not happen within 3 years of introduction it is not going to work. I remember the bull had issues with both conspecifics and other species on the Savannah (hence the exhibit entry point was altered to allow for the Wildlife to pass in and out of the exhibit.
 
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