Zoo Wroclaw Wroclaw zoo news 2022

Birth of a black and rufous sengi in Wroclaw a few days ago. According to zootierliste it's a first :)

Wrocław zoo has been keeping this species since 2018, and it was bred in the first year (youngster didn’t survive). So the first successful breeding was in 2019.
 
Recently 3 Long-eared hedgehogs (Hemiechinus auritus) were born.

A few days ago 2,5-year old female Western pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis liberiensis) Kadarka arrived from Szeged zoo (Hungary). According to the Instagram of Zoo Wroclaw, she was born on the 20th of January 2020.

Sources:
Instagram of Zoo Wroclaw (16/06/2022) Login • Instagram
Instagram of Zoo Wroclaw (18/09/2022) Login • Instagram
 
And good year for many birds that have hatched: Palawan Hornbill (Wrocław is the only zoo in the world that breeds this species), Baer’s Pochard (first time in Poland), Common Eider (first time in Poland), Black-winged Stilt (first time in Wrocław), Red-crowned Crane (first time in Wrocław), Darwin’s Rhea , Siamese Fireback, Black-necked Swan, Cereopsis Goose, Waldrapp Ibis, Cattle Egret, Little Bittern and other species. More birds sitting on the eggs.
 
On the 2nd of August a (male?) Javan banteng (Bos javanicus javanicus) was born.

Source:
Instagram of Zoo Wroclaw (20/08/2022)
 
The zoo website links to a 14-page historical paper about non-European people shows in the Wroclaw Zoo. This topic is often sensationalized in tabloid accounts and books.

“And on Sunday we went to watch the people”. Ethnographic shows in the Wrocław zoological garden between 1876 and 1930 ; Etnografia Polska 62 z. 1-2 (2018)

"This article analyzes shows of non-European peoples (German: Völkerschauen) which were performed at the premises of the Wrocław zoological garden (at that time Breslau zoological garden) between 1876 and 1930. Being the first in the series of articles analyzing ethnographic shows hosted at the territories of the present Polish state at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the present text delineatesthe main framework within which further, thorough analyses will be conducted. The aim of this article is to outline the history of ethnographic shows at the premises of the Wrocław zoo, including the reconstruction of their timeline, overview of the context, forms and principles underlying the organization of similar events in Germany. The article is based on sources obtained from archives and press materials."

„A w niedzielę szło się oglądać ludzi”. Pokazy etnograficzne we wrocławskim ogrodzie zoologicznym 1876–1930 - Digital Repository of Scientific Institutes

Full article is in Polish, anybody interested can use Google translate.
 
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