What is the situation in other Polish zoos like Poznan?
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What is the situation in other Polish zoos like Poznan?
I saw this tank last year and it's hard to imagine 12 manatees in !
Beauval has already 10 now so they will be 12 with the two new ones.
It's a shame for me as with just two pools and a medical one the complex is too small for such a number.
The Sumatran tiger cub born May 23 is a female:
A 2-month-old Sumatran tiger cub is getting to know the world and learning to hunt from her mother at a zoo in southwestern Poland, the first such cub born there in 20 years.
The as-yet-unnamed female cub was born May 23 as her mother Nuri’s first offspring and the authorities at the Wroclaw Zoo are overjoyed that the mother is taking very good care of her. Zoo spokeswoman Joanna Kij said Thursday the tiger’s birth was a great success for the zoo.
The father, Tengah, was present at birth, sniffed the newborn and then “went his way,” which is natural for tiger males who don’t participate in the raising of cubs, said Radoslaw Ratajszczak, chairman of the Wroclaw Zoo board of managers.
Nuri came to Wroclaw in 2015 from the zoo in Paignton, England, while Tengah came in 2010 from Rheine, Germany.
Full article: Sumatran tiger cub learns to hunt from mother at Poland zoo
A 2-month-old Sumatran tiger cub is getting to know the world and learning to hunt from her mother at a zoo in southwestern Poland, the first such cub born there in 20 years.
The as-yet-unnamed female cub was born May 23 as her mother Nuri’s first offspring and the authorities at the Wroclaw Zoo are overjoyed that the mother is taking very good care of her. Zoo spokeswoman Joanna Kij said Thursday the tiger’s birth was a great success for the zoo.
The father, Tengah, was present at birth, sniffed the newborn and then “went his way,” which is natural for tiger males who don’t participate in the raising of cubs, said Radoslaw Ratajszczak, chairman of the Wroclaw Zoo board of managers.
Nuri came to Wroclaw in 2015 from the zoo in Paignton, England, while Tengah came in 2010 from Rheine, Germany.
Full article: Sumatran tiger cub learns to hunt from mother at Poland zoo
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Where is the problem ? They bred very well in it, and only if a caged animal feels well, it will breed. By the way-in the new house, the manatees never bred until now !
They have to much space there and spending to much time with swimming around. In the old tank, they were much closer to each other, so they bred very well... Size doesn't mean everything in every case...
I don't care if they breed or not, I am very happy that they now live in bigger enclosures, watching them being in that miniature pool as a little child was bad and as I watched them in there I felt very bad. It's not about breeding it is also about the wellbeing of the animals and in that pool there was really nothing they could do except breeding
3 Palawan hornbills have left the nest .
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On Aug. 23 2 Capybara's were born at the zoo :
So with the Hammerheaded Fruit Bats, there are now two unique bats on show at the same time?
Cotswold still have two Hammerheads on show with their Straw-coloureds as far as I'm aware.
13 Asian brown tortoises ( Manouria emys ) have hatched at the zoo .
.Not for so long apparently. Zootierliste indicates that only one individual was left in 2019 from the 7 individuals originally received.
A very noteworthy breeding achievement.13 Asian brown tortoises ( Manouria emys ) have hatched at the zoo
Any info on other zoos having breeding success with Asian browns or forest tortoise?
This is true; however they received a new group earlier this year and therefore have decent numbers again.
Manatee female-calf born on Sept. 11 . Because the mother doesn't take care properly for the young it has to be hand-raised :
Today I visited my 200th zoo and Wroclaw seemed to be a good place for that milestone.
I was not disappointed, this is a pretty strong allround zoo with a very nice atmosphere. New developments are generally of quite a high level, but there is still a number of eyesores around, most notably around the pachyderm and primate house. It was interesting how they gave some primates access to nearby trees to enlarge their enclosure. The bird house is currently undergoing a major renovation and from what I could see will look quite smart then. Hopefully the reptile house will not have to wait much longer to get a renovation too. This building looks like a train station from the outside and really is a zoo on its own. I counted close to 190 reptile and amphibian exhibits in this building alone and there is also a sizeable collection of invertebrates here.... So in total this building alone has 3x the number of enclosures as the whole of Burgers' Zoo. Quantity does go above quality here, with many terraria on the small side (and some far too small) and some looking quite aged... It is still a wonderful house though and I have never seen so many turtles, monitor lizards and geckos in one place... I hope they find a way to maintain the collection, but have a bit more of the Cologne quality here.
The Afrykarium is really an impressive work of architecture and I very much like the theme, but as a whole, the building doesn't convince me. Most enclosures are very generous in size (land part of the Common Hippos excepted...), but they are often just that: big. The aquaria are mostly barely furnished and look bare. This is especially acute in the Red Sea tank. Instead of coral sand on the bottom, there is just concrete, combined with subpar lightning and only a few bits of rockwock and extremely annoying crossviewing, this tank just doesn't work. It has the size and the species line-up (though signage was absent), to be a fantastic tank, but it is let down by its design. If they would have copied a bit more from the very similar lagune tank (in terms of lay-out and visitor path) in Burgers' Ocean, it could have been a better version of that tank... The manatee tank had similar problems and just felt like a simple concrete tank without variation in depth and barely any structure. The size is there, but so much more would have been possible to make it more attractive. Given the increase in visitor numbers, the building seems to be loved by the general public, but from a nerd perspective there are so many missed opportunities in design, I cannot really love this building. The new Hammerheaded Fruit Bat aviary is great though, extremely tall and well planted. I saw 3 bats as well as 2 Congo Peafowl and a pair of Schalow's Turaco.
I also saw the Madagascar Fruit Bats in the lovely Madagascar house, as well as a very active pair of White-tailed Antsangy, great additions. The highlight was however the Red-and-White Flying Squirrel which was visible in the middle of the day without any warning....
For the species collectors that have Yellow Baboon on their lifelist after a visit to Wroclaw, I have bad news. All baboons here are Olive Baboons, though there might still be some OliveXYellow hybrids, but for sure no real ones here...
I was not disappointed, this is a pretty strong allround zoo with a very nice atmosphere. New developments are generally of quite a high level, but there is still a number of eyesores around, most notably around the pachyderm and primate house. It was interesting how they gave some primates access to nearby trees to enlarge their enclosure. The bird house is currently undergoing a major renovation and from what I could see will look quite smart then. Hopefully the reptile house will not have to wait much longer to get a renovation too. This building looks like a train station from the outside and really is a zoo on its own. I counted close to 190 reptile and amphibian exhibits in this building alone and there is also a sizeable collection of invertebrates here.... So in total this building alone has 3x the number of enclosures as the whole of Burgers' Zoo. Quantity does go above quality here, with many terraria on the small side (and some far too small) and some looking quite aged... It is still a wonderful house though and I have never seen so many turtles, monitor lizards and geckos in one place... I hope they find a way to maintain the collection, but have a bit more of the Cologne quality here.
The Afrykarium is really an impressive work of architecture and I very much like the theme, but as a whole, the building doesn't convince me. Most enclosures are very generous in size (land part of the Common Hippos excepted...), but they are often just that: big. The aquaria are mostly barely furnished and look bare. This is especially acute in the Red Sea tank. Instead of coral sand on the bottom, there is just concrete, combined with subpar lightning and only a few bits of rockwock and extremely annoying crossviewing, this tank just doesn't work. It has the size and the species line-up (though signage was absent), to be a fantastic tank, but it is let down by its design. If they would have copied a bit more from the very similar lagune tank (in terms of lay-out and visitor path) in Burgers' Ocean, it could have been a better version of that tank... The manatee tank had similar problems and just felt like a simple concrete tank without variation in depth and barely any structure. The size is there, but so much more would have been possible to make it more attractive. Given the increase in visitor numbers, the building seems to be loved by the general public, but from a nerd perspective there are so many missed opportunities in design, I cannot really love this building. The new Hammerheaded Fruit Bat aviary is great though, extremely tall and well planted. I saw 3 bats as well as 2 Congo Peafowl and a pair of Schalow's Turaco.
I also saw the Madagascar Fruit Bats in the lovely Madagascar house, as well as a very active pair of White-tailed Antsangy, great additions. The highlight was however the Red-and-White Flying Squirrel which was visible in the middle of the day without any warning....
For the species collectors that have Yellow Baboon on their lifelist after a visit to Wroclaw, I have bad news. All baboons here are Olive Baboons, though there might still be some OliveXYellow hybrids, but for sure no real ones here...