Zoo Leipzig Zoo Leipzig news 2018

[BjoernN]

Second male Queensland koala arrived from ZooParc de Beauval.

 

[BjoernN]

Three Northern bald ibis hatched.

Unfortunately two Nepalese red panda were stillborn.

 

[BjoernN]

Three Visayan warty pigs were born on July 17th.

A single Western tree hyrax arrived.

 

[Nisha]

Three Visayan warty pigs were born on July 17th.

A single Western tree hyrax arrived.

Is the Hyrax from Ostrava or a new import ?

 

[BjoernN]

I do not know, but I think it is from Ostrava.

 

[FunkyGibbon]

ZTL lists Leipzig as having Spectacled Bear. Is this incorrect, as they don't appear to appear on the map or website?

 

[BjoernN]

The information is correct. The old brace (NAVARRO *1990 and BIANCA *1994) is living in an off show enclosure between Gondwanaland and the Himalaya exhibit.

 

[BjoernN]

Male Giant Anteater arrived from Blackpool.

3 years old Indian Sloth bear LIEM has been shipped to Sofia Zoo in Bulgaria.

 

[BjoernN]

First offspring in the new South America part is a Patagonian mara.

 

[BjoernN]

Third male Grevys zebra foal was born (the first one did not survived in january).

A female White-nosed coati arrived.

 

[BjoernN]

Female guanaco was born...

 

[BjoernN]

Unfortunately the Pygmy slow lori breeding female died.

A male Black howler (LOTHAR, *2015 to KIKO and MERYL) has been shipped to Apenheul.

 

[BjoernN]

@FunkyGibbon
Spectacled bear male NAVARRO died last winter, only the 24 years old BIANCA is left.

 

[BjoernN]

12th Kirk's dik-dik was born.

 

[13700]

hello, someone know when open new exhibit underwater seal lion and penguin ?

 

[BjoernN]

@leone
The construction will start next year, opening will take place 2020/2021...

 

[13700]

ok thank you

 

[BjoernN]

1,1 Myanmar thamins and a female Grevy's zebra were born.

2,0 confiscated Pygmy slow loris and 1,1 Malayan slow loris. One Pygma lori was shipped to Dortmund Zoo, the Malayan slow loris to Berlin Zoo.

 

[BjoernN]

White-faced saki born (7th offspring sice 2012) in Gondwanaland...

 

[BjoernN]

Renivation and modification works of the aquarium will start in january.

The entire building (the oldest aquarium in Germany, opening in 1910, last generalised modification took place 28 years ago) is going to close down until 2020 at the end of the year.