Moja’s daughter Duni is in Prague, the story continues…

Duni in Cabárceno in July 2022. So far, it is not possible to take pictures of her in Prague due to the quarantine conditions. Photo: Miroslav Bobek, Prague Zoo

A short summary:
Yesterday afternoon, a CASA military aircraft landed at Prague-Kbely airport. It was bringing Duni, a female gorilla, from Spain. She is the daughter of the famous Moja and the granddaughter of Kijivu and Richard. She will join Prague Zoo’s breeding group of western lowland gorillas, which is being set up in the newly built pavilion named the Dja Reserve. It is hoped that she too will become a mother.

The nine-year-old Duni started the transport yesterday in Cabárceno, just after eight o’clock in the morning. For weeks beforehand, however, the keepers had been training Duni to enter the transport box, and, as a result, there were no problems when loading her. She was then driven to the airport in Santander. There, a CASA army plane was ready and waiting to fly her back to the Czech Republic, having been on a training exercise in Zaragoza.

The departure from Santander was delayed by about an hour due to a strike by air traffic controllers in France, but that was the only complication the transport had. The CASA landed in Prague-Kbely at 17:00 and about an hour later Duni got out of the transport box and into the background section at Prague’s Dja Reserve. She was calm and relaxed and soon started exploring her new surroundings.