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In mid-August I wrote here about a young mountain bongo female from our zoo, who lost her mother but showed a tremendous will to live. Thanks to her connection with the herd, she began to drink from two other females, who were caring for their own young, which, together with artificial supplemental feeding was sufficient for her...

When I wrote last week about the aardvark female Pieta, who became the oldest representative of her species in the world, also the oldest historically, I should not forget some other representatives of the oldest animals also living in our zoo.

I preferred not to talk too much about it, not to jinx it and waited patiently until Saturday. Then I went to congratulate Pieta with a handful of mealworms.

It is twelve months to the day, since the birth of a Geoffroy's spider monkey baby at Prague Zoo. The little primate, who was later named Tiko, is doing well and frolics for days in front of visitors to the Monkey Islands. At the same time, he is one of Prague Zoo’s most important additions. The critically endangered...

Two young tayra or high-woods dogs, as they are called in Trinidad, are now on display at Prague Zoo. From this week on, visitors can observe them in the exhibit near the polar bear enclosure. Under the watchful eye of their mother, the little mustelids generally leave their burrow in the morning and then during the afternoon feeding after 3 pm.

On September 1st, the entrance fee for all children under 15 is one crown. For this symbolic admission fee, schoolchildren will spend the first day of September among animals instead of at their school desks. On the last Friday of the summer holidays, they will also enjoy a completely different timetable - commented feedings and...

Prague Zoo in the Czech republic celebrates one of the greatest successes in its history. The breeding of the female Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) is considered successful as the pup born in February has reached the age of six months and has ceased to drink the mother's milk and fully switched to a solid diet. It is the...

Prague Zoo is relishing the addition of several ungulates. Visitors walking round the enclosures can observe a pair of critically endangered addaxes, a young Mishmi takin, which came completely out of the blue, a young Finnish forest reindeer, rarely bred in captivity, or Chinese gorals. The keepers also feel the prospects for...

I missed the first two mountain bongos this year – by that I mean I did not see them on the day they were born - but the third one was a Sunday baby and I managed to be there. I found it lying at the feet of his now 14-year-old mother Maureen, who was watching me attentively. Everything seemed to be running smoothly....