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The long-expected baby aardvark was born in Prague Zoo just after 9 am on Sunday. The three-day-old cub is suckling from its mother, Kvída, and, according to the keepers, it is healthy and active. Just after birth it weighed 1,450 grams and measured 54 cm in length, which is a common birth weight and size for an aardvark.

David Hunter invited us to his home in Albury, in the foothills of the Australian Alps. I was particularly taken by the unusual decorations in his living room. Imagine pouring lead into water – then enlarging the resulting formations to half or three quarters of a metre.

It has all been agreed, approved and confirmed: the trio of females - Kamba - Kijivu - Shinda - and the baby Ajabu, will be joined by a male, Kisumu, and a female, Duni, in the new gorilla house. This is doubly good news: the arrival of Kisumu will allow the troop to have more infants and, with the arrival of Duni, the story of...

Mantled guerezas are trying out the grass enclosure, De Brazza’s monkeys are exploring the indoor exhibit - the individual inhabitants of Prague Zoo’s new gorilla house are making themselves at home.

Following a successful move, the quartet of gorillas are settling down in Prague Zoo’s new pavilion. The females Kijivu, Kamba and Shinda, together with the young male Ajabu, have been living in the indoor exhibit for several days.

Prague Zoo welcomed the 250th Przewalski's horse foal. The young stallion was born in May in the zoo’s breeding station in Dolní Dobřejov. It is fitting as this is also the 30th anniversary of the first ever transport of wild horses from Europe to Mongolia. The next stage of their return to the wild - for the first time to...

As soon as we arrived in Ulaanbaatar, the director of the Great Gobi B Protected Area, our long-time collaborator, Ganbaatar, gave me the best news I have heard since our transports of Przewalski’s horses started in 2012. A third-generation foal has just been born in this reserve in western Mongolia! In 2012, we transported...

The young penguins are learning to swim, the wolf triplets are starting to venture further from the den, the guanaco was born right in front of the visitors. Prague Zoo is full of youngsters and not just from these well-known and popular species, but also some of the highly endangered ones that are crucial for breeding – the...

The first “Czech” pangolins were officially presented on Sunday afternoon at Prague Zoo. Following a month-long quarantine, the pair, imported from Taiwan, is finally on display in the nocturnal exhibition of the Indonesian Jungle Pavilion. The pangolins were welcomed not only by Prague Zoo’s director, Miroslav Bobek, but...