About zoo

About zoo
Przewalski's horses transported from Berlin being released into acclimatization enclosures in the Golden Steppe, Kazakhstan. Pictured is the mare Togs. Photo: Petr Jan Juračka

Four Przewalski’s horse mares have safely arrived in Kazakhstan from Berlin. Togs and Shara, originally from the UK’s Marwell Zoo, Bela, born in Nuremberg, and Theresa from the partner institution Tierpark Berlin, were released into acclimatisation enclosures at the Alibi reintroduction centre yesterday at ten minutes past...

History

The history of Prague Zoo goes all the way back to the year 1881, when, on the occasion of the wedding of Crown Prince Rudolf and Princess Stephanie of Belgium, Count Sweerts-Sporck published an open letter in the newspapers calling for the establishment of a zoological garden in Prague.


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