International Zoo News

Taronga Zoo Sdyney had to pull down the only Leopard seal in human care :

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Ohhh, Poor Casey ! Good they stopped her suffering, if her illness had already gone on for almost 2 months   

 

Beautiful animal.   

Male walrus Born at Hagenebck Tierpark,germany, on June 15. Mother and calf doing well, and are on Show since a few days. First walrus calf to be Born n Germany, fourth in europe. But maybe bred at Moscow Zoo, nobody is sure about that. Nevertheless, the calf is healthy, and the mother took good care for it.Of Course it is now the star Attraktion at the park-maybe Hagenbeck should sell collectas walrus and calf in the gift shop ?

Bongo wrote:

Male walrus Born at Hagenebck Tierpark,germany, on June 15. Mother and calf doing well, and are on Show since a few days. First walrus calf to be Born n Germany, fourth in europe. But maybe bred at Moscow Zoo, nobody is sure about that. Nevertheless, the calf is healthy, and the mother took good care for it.Of Course it is now the star Attraktion at the park-maybe Hagenbeck should sell collectas walrus and calf in the gift shop ?

A baby with a beard   
Ohh, LOOK ! !   

Thanks for telling, Bongo

Incredible that these enormous creatures can breed in captivity   

Female Beluga calf born to mother"Marris"at Georgia Aquarium, May 10.

Ohhh! That is wonderful

Third gorilla within six monsths born at Stuttgart Zoo- all are mother raised. It is Number 35 in the successful breeding. The same day,also at Duisburg Zoo a gorilla was born, also raised by its first time mother-good gorilla year in germany.

"Rapti", female indian rhino at Munich zoo is pregnant and du in August. It will be her third calf, but one first was dead born, the other died the enxt day. So hopefully, this time the calf will survive.

This is wonderful news !!!
At last the gorillas in captivity are so happy that they begin to reproduce

It seems the future is safe for this incredibly valuable species
A big hurray to the staffs of the Zoos

First gorilla in a zoo was born in 1956-"Kolo"at Columbus Zoo and-still alive ! Goriila sare breeding regulary in human care since the 60ties and nowadays, gorilla birt ar enot that speicl as they were in the 70ty or 80ties. Because many gorillas are born each year, some zoos has started twenty years ago to keep bachlor groups-so only males, becuase you can keep only one adult male in a family group.Bachlor groups are normally in the wird for many social species-lions,apes, antelopes, equids, elephants, giraffes....

But nevertheless, of course it is a very special thing, if three gorillas were born within just 6 months.

Second walrus born at Hagenbeck June 5 ! The second wlrus calf within a year after the birth of"Thor"last year June 15! Mother"Polsa"is a first time mother and take good care for her daughter, but both are behind the scens for the first few weeks.It is the first time ever two walrusses are born in the same zoo within a year.In the next weeks,"Thor"and his Mother"Dyna"will move from the sealion pool to the walrus pool, so"Thor"will met the first time his father"Odin", Good time, because sommer is mating season for walrusses, so if"Odin"will mate with"Dyna"again, what is very possible, so maybe she will give birth again next year!Hagenebck is very lucky to have now two breeding females and a good breeding bull!So lets hope, the breeding will continue"

If Hagenbeck would sell Collecta in the giftshop, I'm sure the walrus with calf would be a bestseller!But, of course, they sell Schleich.

Good News for Giant Panda-Fans-the Ouwehands Dierenpark in Rhenen will get a pair Pandas in September 2016, and also Berlin Zoo will get a new pair of Pandas, but it is not yet offical, so it is not known yet, when the pandas will arrive in Berlin, but I guess it will be 2017.

Two bottlenosed dolphins are born at Duisburg Zoo Dec.22 and 24! Both are doing well, but of course still off show.

One of the dolphin calfs at Duisburg died, but the other is fine.

Two White Rhino calfes were born within 12 days. The male calf is handraised, the female is raised by its mother.

Leipzig Zoo get a second pair of chinese pangolins in hope to breed with them.

Thanks for the news! A pity one of the dolphin calves died And I truly hope Leipzig Zoo will get Chinese pangolin babies in the near future!

I also have news from the Dutch zoo GaiaZOO (Kerkrade): a male bongo calf was born here at the beginning of February With his mother Zawadi (photos are property of GaiaZOO):

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Such a cute fellow

Cuteness overload!!!!
I NEED a Bongo calf!!!!!!!!!!!

NightLioness wrote:

Cuteness overload!!!!
I NEED a Bongo calf!!!!!!!!!!!

Indeed! ANY BRAND, make us a BONGO CALF!!!!!

Tarunyada wrote:

NightLioness wrote:

Cuteness overload!!!!
I NEED a Bongo calf!!!!!!!!!!!

Indeed! ANY BRAND, make us a BONGO CALF!!!!!

YES! RIGHT NOW! Otherwise I will make one on my own

Awwww

How do you get off-show?

Bonobo wrote:

How do you get off-show?

I think they are zoo keeper photos of the Bongos :)

Great news

NightLioness wrote:

Bonobo wrote:

How do you get off-show?

I think they are zoo keeper photos of the Bongos :)

Sorry, forgot to mention D: The photos are indeed taken by zookeepers of the park

Here are some pictures for Zebra lovers, at Karlsruhe Zoo in germany, three zebra foals were born at the end of august, and another one two days ago! Its great to watch them, they bring so much life and action into the exhibit....the zoo has now 11 zebras.

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