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According to the book of Genesis, Noah’s Ark was 300 feet long and 50 feet wide. Converted to current units, it measured roughly 135 to 22 metres. Squeezing a pair or even seven pairs of all animal species on to it must had been a completely impossible task.

This week the Dja Reserve’s eight-member gorilla troop ventured outside for the first time, taking both newborns with them. Giraffes, zebras and antelopes are now grazing outdoors in the large African enclosure, hippos are taking turns at sunbathing and swimming in the pool and the elephants are enjoying their first mud bath...

Another baby! Third time this year I announced a birth of an ape. After two lowland gorillas a Sumatran orangutan baby was born on May 2, after the noon hour! And on top of that, it is a grandchild of the famous and genetically valuable Káma.

Shortly after noon yesterday a Sumatran orangutan was born at Prague Zoo. It is the first baby for the 11-year-old Diri, who was also born at Prague Zoo. The father is Pagy, a 22-year-old male. Initial observations indicate that the baby is full of life and the keepers have already seen it drinking mother’s milk. The...

There’s always something afoot at Prague Zoo’s Dja Reserve: recently visitors could observe two baby gorillas being cradled by one of their mothers.

An extraordinary sight – two baby western lowland gorillas – awaits Prague Zoo’s visitors. Kijivu is already lending her baby to her half-sister Shinda, just under two weeks after birth. In contrast, Duni, who gave birth to a female, Mobi, in January, continues to guard her daughter closely and has not yet lent her...

Prague Zoo has officially begun its main season and with it the questions from the public came pouring in: which is the best day to visit the zoo? How to avoid the line at the ticket office? Are there any discounts available? These and many more questions are answered in these top ten tips from an experienced visitor to Prague Zoo.

Prague Zoo is currently raising a Pel’s fishing owl chick. It hatched here at the beginning of this year and after initial fluctuations in weight and a reluctance to accept food every now and then, the bird is now lusty and doing well. Prague Zoo is thus well on its way to being the first zoo in the world to breed one of the...

We have already three “Przhevalsky’s” in the new Gobi Exhibit – three animal species, which were named after Russian geographer Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky (1839–1888). Besides Przewalski’s horse it is Gobi racerunner (Eremias przewalskii) and Przewalski's toadhead agama (Phrynocephalus przewalskii).