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This year’s Return of the Wild Horses seemed to be haunted by the ten plagues of Egypt. One of them struck three of my colleagues in the Kazakh steppe.

Prague Zoo and its partners released endangered Przewalski's horses in the Altyn Dala (Golden Steppe) region in central Kazakhstan. Once extinct species returned to its former habitat from where it disappeared hundreds of years ago due to human activities. This historical event occurred this week on the 4th June. Six...

Today, Prague Zoo, in collaboration with the partners of the Return of the Wild Horses project, released seven Przewalski’s horses into the Golden Steppe in central Kazakhstan. One stallion and six mares were transported from Prague and Debrecen, Hungary, in cooperation with the Czech Army. Stallion Galvan and mares Grâce and...

Ball's Pyramid rises steeply 562 meters above the Pacific Ocean. It is said to be the tallest volcanic plug in the world. In any case, it is a truly fascinating rock formation!

Half aquatic, half arboreal, partially green, but also orange; but, above all, uniquely snail-eating. Such is the northern caiman lizard. Prague Zoo’s breeding programme has just been given a shot in the arm. The five nearly year-old lizards came to Prague from Basel with the aim of building on its former success. In 1998,...

Ganbaatar waved at me insistently and showed me the direction I should take. I quickly set off up the rocky slope and then I saw him. From behalf the horizon, just a few dozen metres from me, a beautiful stallion of Przewalski’s horse silently emerged. He stood facing me, watched me intently, shortly ran towards me and only...

These are the very first red river hogs to be born at Prague Zoo. In all there are three piglets from these Central African forest pigs on display in the Dja Reserve. Their mum, Jasna, an eight-year-old sow, is taking excellent care of her newborn pups and regularly suckles them. Despite this, it must be borne in mind that the...

Prague Zoo’s Przewalski's horse breeding programme is experiencing an unprecedented baby boom. Today, the third foal of April was born at Dívčí hrady in Prague. Another foal also came into the world today at the breeding and acclimatization station for Przewalski's horses in Dolní Dobřejov. Besides this, people can see a...

After the outbreak of the Prague Uprising some zoo employees left to defend the Troja Bridge. It is said that they retrieved weapons from hiding places on the premises of Prague Zoo, but we have no evidence of this, or I don’t know about any. But with one exception.