About zoo

About zoo
The pup was born on 5 June—the same day as his grandmother, the well-known female Abeba. Photo: Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

Suckling, sleeping and growing stronger: after a full seven years, a Cape fur seal pup is being raised at Prague Zoo. The young male was born to female Daisy on 5 June. Although she began caring for her first offspring immediately, she initially did not have enough milk, so keepers had to introduce supplementary feeding. Now,...

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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