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During recent months, Hodonin Zoo published multiple visualizations of planned exhibits:

7 months ago, they published the first phase of new developments. This consists of:
  • Exhibit for small African carnivores - Meerkats confirmed, maybe more species will be present.
  • Antelope exhibit - visualization shows oryx and mhorr gazelle.
  • Pygmy hippo exhibit
  • South American complex (styled as ruins of Aztec temple) - Mixed exhibit - Tapir, Giant anteater, Howler monkey? (shown on pictures but not confirmed in any interview or press release) and visualization also shows Sloth but I seriously doubt they will be there in the way the picture implies :D There will be also exhibits for Maned wolf and Llama.
  • Humboldt's penguins' exhibit - this one looks rather...ehm..."interesting" and seems to be walk-in
  • Australian exhibit - Cassowary, Kangaroo walkthrough and our own little version of Uluru
For this phase, the zoo has all the permissions and now just needs to secure the funding...and that could take a looooong time.

Today, zoo published second phase, consisting of:
  • Jaguar exhibit
  • Indian rhino exhibit
  • Large walk-through aviary for birds
  • Tropical greenhouse with free-roaming birds and monkeys.
  • Reconstruction of the current hideous row of carnivore cages - exhibits will be enlarged and refurbished, but it will be just partial reconstruction as the zoo plans to tear them down eventually.
This stage is in the planning stage so far, and given how long will it probably take to complete the first phase, I'm a bit afraid to even guess the expected timeframe :rolleyes:
 
Some fresh offspring of last weeks consists of Ural owls, spectacled owls, two Chapman zebras and a eastern grey kangaroo.
 
A third Chapman zebra has been born, after 2 females this is a male colt.

It´s father, who spent 15 years in Hodonín as a main breeding stallion, will be sent to Sofia zoo in Bulgaria soon. A new stallion is planned to come from Berlin - Berlin gives up this (sub)species and the said animal is genetically interesting. Two young females born at Hodonín last year are still waiting for their transport date, they should go to Russia, but their journey has been postponed by current ani-covid measures.
 
Four Brown-mantled tamarins arrived from Zoo Plzen. They are all brothers 1-2 years old. They still search for a female. At the same time, Hodonin is phasing out Cotton-top tamarins from its collection.
 
The last of the Amur tiger cubs left the zoo, here a translation of news article:

A young tigress from the Hodonín Zoo headed to the UK

A young Amur tigress, one of quadruplets born at Hodonín Zoo, headed to a zoo in the UK on Wednesday. Only her parents remained at Hodonín zoo, said Marie Blahová, spokeswoman for the zoo. Three young males from the same litter left last year.

The tiger quadruplets were born at Hodonín Zoo at the beginning of June 2017. Three of them were males, and last December they went to the Belgian zoo Pairi Daiza. On Wednesday morning, the female also set out on a 1,700-kilometer journey following the decision of the breeding coordinator. Her new home will be Marwell Zoo in the UK. "Originally, it was considered to place her at Plzeň Zoo, but it was decided otherwise and in the end another tigress from England traveled to Plzeň Zoo by the same transport company, but in the opposite direction," said zoologist Lenka Štursová.

Only a ten-year-old male, who arrived to Hodonín in the spring of 2013 from the French zoo Amnéville, now remains in the large enclosure for the Amur tigers. The connection of a thirteen-year-old female who came to Hodonín at the end of 2012 from Hoyerswerda, Germany, and with whom he raised a total of six cubs, is planned. "However, this will be possible only after the sterilization of the male, because we no longer have permission from the breeding coordinator to reproduce this breeding pair," said Štursová. The female now resides in another enclosure.
The Amur tiger is the largest feline and belongs to the critically endangered animal species
 
The resident maned wolf pair has a cub born last December. It was an unplanned accident, the breeding female is 10 years old (the male 12 years old) and she was considered post-reproductive by both the zoo and the eep coordinator. The litter had 2 cubs but one died soon after birth.
 
The zoo got damaged by a tornado today evening. Buildings are standing, all dangerous and larger animals are accounted for, so far no known victims among animals. Trees mostly down, fences and wooden structures flew away. The dog shelter nearby run by the zoo doesn´t exist anymore, just a pile of rubble.
 
The zoo remains closed. Surrounding settlements continue to be cleared/demolished, zoo car park is used by technik and for material storage. So the zoo still waits for green light from rescue forces and municipality to allow visitors to use streets and parking around the zoo.

The zoo areal itself has restored supply of water, electricity and data connection. It was already cleared of all rubble and fallen trees, wooden parts and fences are renewed, by help of hundreds of volunteers and companies with heavy construction machines and generous donations of money and materials. Only the aquarium building will need much longer, it lost roof and one structural wall collapsed.
 
The zoo has finally opened again today. Only the aquarium house remains closed due to structural damages.

One chestnut-eared aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis) has left a breeding box and can be seen in outdoor cage being fed by parents.
 
The aquarium house cannot be saved, tornado damaged it beyond repair and must be torn down. All saltwater tanks are empty now. Fish and other animals and corals were transferred to Dvur Kralove, Brno and Olomouc (who got the female black-tip shark). Freshwater tank inhabitants still search for good new homes but will leave soon too. The zoo has so far no plan to build a new aquarium house.
 
One chick of Silvery-cheeked hornbill (Bycanistes brevis) left the breeding box in September. The zoo is now waiting for test results of its gender. If it´s a female it will go to Liberec zoo who reserved first female offspring. If it´s a male it will be offered via surplus list.
 
Four cubs of white lions have been exported to Venezuela last week. They were born in 2020.
 
Jana said:
Four cubs of white lions have been exported to Venezuela last week. They were born in 2020.
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Any news on where exactly in Venezuela they went? The country hasn’t got the best zoos as far as I’ve seen (and the current situation hasn’t helped at all) and it sounds like a bad idea to export cubs there.
 
Randomname0183 said:
Any news on where exactly in Venezuela they went? The country hasn’t got the best zoos as far as I’ve seen (and the current situation hasn’t helped at all) and it sounds like a bad idea to export cubs there.
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No, sorry, I found no details in which institution they will land. When I saw the news first I also did double-take because that is not exactly a country you would expect.
 
Randomname0183 said:
Any news on where exactly in Venezuela they went? The country hasn’t got the best zoos as far as I’ve seen (and the current situation hasn’t helped at all) and it sounds like a bad idea to export cubs there.
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So, final destination of those white lions is:
1,0 Zoo Chorros de Milla in Mérida
1,1 Las Delicias Zoo in Maracay
1,0 Caricuao Zoo in Caracas


New species in the bird house - 1,0 green-billed toucan (Ramphastos dicolorus).
 
One chick of rare Chestnut-winged Laughingthrush (Dryonastes berthemyi) has left the nest of its parents. It is the first surviving chick in all the years since the zoo obtained this species. The zoo plans to keep this chick and use it to create a secong breeding pair in future. Parents with chick are visible inside last outside cage of the bird house.
 
During 2020 the zoo recieved 3 pairs of Lesser kestrels from Prague Zoo and already a year later the species was bred with succes. Also this year already a number of chicks from at least 2 pairs have been raised. Goal is to provide captive-bred animals to a re-introduction programm in Bulgaria.
 
Spectacled owls have bred again. Two owletts hatched and were reared by parents from originally 3 eggs laid in May.

The city of Hodonin has approved funds for demolition of the destroyed aquarium house (planned October 2022) and construction of a new aquarium - a copy of the old one. Also, it chose an architecture company that will prepaire detailed building plans for the first phase of general modernisation of the zoo (mentioned in the first post of this thread). The same architecture byro that planned Afrikarium in Wroclaw and Orientarium in Lodz. Now I am rather scared.
 
Glad to hear that something is going on there! Hodonín probably needs some large renovation and while some concepts were around, I was affraid that - after COVID and Last year tornado nothing come to realisation... Of course its still just plánu, but at least something happening
 
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