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Prague Zoo decided to equip the honey badgers' outdoor enclosure with several additional rows of electric fencing, including a new power supply. Even so, the keepers watched the first steps of the spirited female with some anxiety. True to expectations, she wasted no time in investigating the enclosure's barriers. Photo: Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

Prague Zoo is restarting its honey badger breeding programme, bringing back these popular tough guys of the animal kingdom. A young female with promising genetic potential is now settling into the Africa up Close pavilion and its outdoor enclosure. If all goes well, the female, born last year at Olomouc Zoo, will be joined by a...

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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