There are precisely 25 days until the opening of the Dja Reserve – Prague Zoo’s new gorilla house. This will be the culmination of many years of hard work, which has taken a large part of our lives.

Some snaks that hunt mammals and birds use a special kind of "night vision". Using receptors located in the pits on their head, they can detect their prey´s body heat.

Under the careful supervision of Prague Zoo’s keepers, Eda the three-year-old male Cape fur seal has already mastered useful veterinary training such as getting into the transport crate and letting the keepers check his teeth, eyes and abdomen. He has also learnt to use the slide and greet the enthusiastic spectators with a...

Prague Zoo is full of youngsters, not only in spring, but also in mid-summer. The cavorting of the hutia triplets keeps visitors of all ages entertained and the newly hatched flamingos are already taking gawky steps towards the water. From the breeding point of view, the additions of East Asian fauna - mythical-sounding gorals...

High up in Kosciuszko National Park, my Australian colleagues showed me the typical habitat of a very small, extremely interesting and endangered marsupial – the Mountain Pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus). It was a scree slope formed from huge boulders. The Burramys (as it is also known) spends most of its time under the surface...

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.