Berlin Zoo Zoo Berlin News 2016

One of the most important houses for a zoo nowadays opend a few days ago-a new, large GIFTSHOP at the Elephant gate Eintrance. A second will follow in a few weeks with the opening of the new main entrance Lion Gate. Its operated by Wild Republic, so no books, but hundreds of Plush animals, kitsch and things nobody really needs. I'm curious if there will be also a special Giftshop at the new Panda exhibit.
 
Some numbers of the newly opened Bird-house :
Number of species reduced from 104 to 97
Number of indoor and outdoor aviaries reduced from 48 to 35
A total of 221 birds are living in the building.
 
vogelcommando said:
Some numbers of the newly opened Bird-house :
Number of species reduced from 104 to 97
Number of indoor and outdoor aviaries reduced from 48 to 35
A total of 221 birds are living in the building.
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I found a list of taxa on-display which a visitor to the newly reopened Bird House compiled and posted to the Zoofreunde forums, and compared it to a list from just before the closure of the house; the above figures are not quite correct.

Prior to closure the house displayed 112 species, whilst it now displays 92 species. Of these, 8 are new arrivals; as such 28 species left in total; 25℅ of the original stocklist.
 
Bib Fortuna said:
By the way-so what was in the Serow Enclosure last week ?
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As of the first week in August it looked like a holding area for individuals which need to be separated. There was an alpaca in the main paddock and an individual blesbok in the side holding yard.

Bib Fortuna said:
Does anybody know if the zoo has got a new Grevy-Zebra stallion ? Their last one died in 2015.
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There was a male in the enclosure.

Also a couple of other points which might not have been mentioned elsewhere, there were red-crowned crane in the blackbuck paddock at the Elephant Gate but no sign of blackbuck; there were domestic cows - can't remember which breed - in the yak enclosure.
 
Some very unimaginative replacements for the serow and yak enclosures designed for wild animals and not domestics.

I presume the new Grevy's stallion is here since quite a few recommended breeding transfers have been made recently.
 
A translation -

Press Release
Berlin's panda plan becomes more concrete
In Beijing and Chengdu
Which bamboo varieties the big pandas prefer, even as thick
Bamboo trunk, so that they may taste the rare bamboo bear
The Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Frank Bruckmann and Zoodirektor Dr. Andreas
Knieriem on her China trip from 13 to 17 October. Of the
The chairman of the supervisory board and the zoo director had taken the long journey to
First in Beijing the final contract negotiations with the China Wildlife
Conservation Association (CWCA) and the State Forestry Administration (SFA)
And later visit the Panda rearing station in Chengdu.
"On the agenda were the latest negotiations and the coordination of the
See details. Which Pandapärchen it actually will be, we become only at
Signing the contract in the next few weeks, "says Dr. Andreas
Knieriem. "The construction site is currently being prepared, so we can get it together as soon as possible
The construction of the very attractive 5.280 m² Panda landscape. "
"After the contract talks, we are looking forward to the groundbreaking ceremony
November 2016, "enthused Frank Bruckmann. "The entry of the pandas now stands
Nothing more stands in the way and the visitors of our zoo can already on it
Are looking forward to welcome the Pandas in summer 2017. Until then will continue
An intensive exchange between Berlin and Chengdu will take place ", promises the
Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
More Berlin Zoo employees will travel to China to join a
Conference for Pandazucht in Chengdu with Chinese colleagues
Exchange. The keeping, care and breeding of the pandas are in the hands of
Focus.
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Someone knows if the Trumpet Manucode is still alive? I was there about then days ago, and apart of the surprise of find out that the Pheasantry was still on works (I asked the zoo about the opening date and they told me first of September), nobody seemed to know about that bird. We asked to four keepers (two of them from Bird House) in English, our horrible German, scientific name and by writting the name on a a paper. Is difficult for me to even imagine that a bird keeper don´t knows about one of the rarest animals on the area of the zoo they works, so maybe the bird died during the last weeks and they are not allowed to give that info? We didn´t see any sign either.
 
Be a great shame indeed if this was the case.
 
The pun in the title of that video is unforgivable :p I love it!
 
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Lifted from Zoo Berlin's FB page
 
Out of interest, how many of us are happy to exchange the entire deer complex at Zoo Berlin for a large display for monochromatic money-sinks? :p
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Out of interest, how many of us are happy to exchange the entire deer complex at Zoo Berlin for a large display for monochromatic money-sinks? :p
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Is it not just the Pere David's and whichever species is adjacent to them? I'm sure that was stated somewhere on here in the last year. It might have been better to wait until the elephants move across the river and give them some of that space instead, but I'm not sure how long that is going to take.

I think really it's a case of pick your poison; they're coming and you just have to decide what to lose. I could name several areas I think are more (less?) worthy than part or all of the deer section but there we go.
 
The parts which have been vacated are bharasingha, milu and reindeer. Milu are supposed to come back in the China realm around the Panda Exhibit.
 
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