Some of the best photos of Plzen zoo:
We begin with a rarity, no longer present at Plzen zoo, and now only in 1 European zoo: the African golden weaver.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Annam leaf turtle popping up head out of the water
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Female Asian koel (males are black). A species no longer present in Europe!
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]A couple of Australian magpies calling out loudly. They share the aviary with New Zealand shoveler duck.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]This one for Roger: a cuddled bat-eared fox
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The beauty snake really deserves its name!
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]This black-backed jackal was hieratically standing in a perfect upright position. Just when I saw it and prepared my camera, it sitted and lied on the rock
Oh wait, at least there is a second jackal in the background, is much more far but at least is standing. I've focused it... just in the same moment of sitting and lying down in the grass!
They didn't woke up anymore
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Black-rumped agouti is relatively rare in European zoos compared with other agoutis
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Blue-headed dove, not kept anymore here, and now in only two european zoos
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]A cute Brandt's vole carrying nesting material. The species is disappeared now from European zoos.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The bird that use an incubator for its eggs! Brush turkey, I was very happy to find this fabulous species!
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Couple of Cape Barren geese that shares enclosure with grey kangaroos.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The wonderful Coleto! Only 5 zoos in Europe keep them
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]A common cusimanse hiding in the grass
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]A very agile slender mongoose in an elegant pose
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Cream-striped bulbul is now disappeared from Europe
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Cuvier's Madagascar swift resting in the fabulous Madagascar Desert building
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Portrait of a dice snake. As a temperate-living species, it inhabits an outdoor terrarium.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]One of the highlights of Plzen zoo is a building with thematic about subterranean world and caves. Here we can find things such as a bumblebee nest, black rats, and this East African cave cricket:
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The collection of kangaroos and allies of Plzen zoo is atonishing, it must be the biggest collection of macropodids in a single place outside Australia. Here, the eastern grey kangaroo:
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]European cave spider is another inhabitant of the subterranean-cave thematic building. I remember vaguely that in a nearby terrarium it should be hibernating Herald moth (Scoliopteryx libatrix), but I didn't saw none.
Always is wonderful to see non-mygalomorph spiders in a zoo.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Plzen zoo is not focused in aquarium, but it have some fishes (mostly freshwater), many of them in an exhibit about local rivers that is thematized from headwaters to lowlands, and it's completely outdoors. Very original and ingenious! Here one of the inhabitants, the European pike-perch.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]My first time seeing a horned lizard in captivity. Giant horned lizard seems the most popular of the genus in terrariums, but still kept at only 3 european zoos.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Another wonderful rarity: the magnific Goliath heron, the biggest of all herons.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]I never saw Grayling again after my visit to this zoo.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Great kiskadee is kept at only 5 european zoos.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Group of hispid cotton rats have apple for lunch.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Combo 2 x 1: Karsten's girdled lizard and Merrem's Madagascar swift, sharing an exhibit in the Madagascar desert building. The plants used in the terrariums are Madagascar natives too, such as this Kalanchoe in the background.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Darkling beetles are a group extremely diversified in my country. Legend of death is the species often shown in European-based insect field guides and hence many people confuse it with the many native species of same genus in my country, however this species is almost absent for it except for some very local introduction.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]A nice Madagascar hog-nosed snake
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Northern carmine bee-eater shares exhibit with other birds such as banded plover, common hoopoe and house martin
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Plzen have a good collection of very colorful fruit doves, including this orange-fronted one.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Parma wallaby eating grass
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Peruvian thick-knee tasting some delicatessen
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Sexual dimorphism in the red avadavat
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]A couple of Ruffs out of breeding season
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Saddle-back tamarin showing its colorful fur
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]An inquisitive scaly-breasted lorikeet. It shares exhibit with swift parrots, wonga pigeons and other aussies. The Australian section of this zoo is easily the best of any zoo outside Australia
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Pek-a-boo eyes and snout of smooth-fronted caiman
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Couple of Saharian striped buntings
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Tammar wallaby resting in the sun
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Believe it or not, one of the animals that excited me most in this zoo. For first time in my life, after seeing tons of empty seashells everywhere, I saw an ALIVE cowry. It's one of the nicest in the genus, the tiger cowrie.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Tomato clownfish was the only marine fish that I've fotographed at this place.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]And finally, a nice male white-winged redstart hidind behind grasses. Plzen is the only zoo in Europe that keeps this species.
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That picture of that blond lion only makes me think about “Le Roi Soleil”. Its pose is also perfect for absolute monarchy. Next I want you to show me Louis XV instead.