“Stay where you are. Don’t move,” German primatologist Daniela Hedwig was whispering into a loud gorilla shouting. “It is OK, just don’t move,” she repeated, and I wondered if I should pick up my camera and try to take the photo of my life. I had already tried to imagine this situation before and I had always ended...

Two polar bears from Warsaw Zoo arrived at Prague Zoo last Tuesday night. The thirteen-year-old twins, Gregor and Aleut, came to Prague on the basis of a recommendation from the European breeding coordinator for this species. Her decision ties in with the departure in March of the Prague male, Tom, to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where...

On Saturday, Jane Goodall, the world-renowned primatologist and nature conservationist, baptised the baby western lowland gorilla born a month ago to Kijivu here at Prague Zoo. The baby gorilla was named Gaia. At the same time, the sex of this year’s second baby gorilla was revealed - as with Mobi, born in January, Gaia is...

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...