About zoo

About zoo
World-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall speaking in front of Prague Zoo’s Dja Reserve alongside the zoo’s director Miroslav Bobek. Photo Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

On Saturday, Jane Goodall, the world-renowned primatologist and nature conservationist, baptised the baby western lowland gorilla born a month ago to Kijivu here at Prague Zoo. The baby gorilla was named Gaia. At the same time, the sex of this year’s second baby gorilla was revealed - as with Mobi, born in January, Gaia is...

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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