As of july, a baby northern giraffe has been on display at Prague Zoo. The little female was born at the start of the month, but until now she has been with her mother in the rear quarters of the African House. This was due to an insufficiently stable left forelimb, which was apparent soon after birth. Moving around on solid...

This Saturday, 6 July, Prague Zoo will unveil 30 species of poison dart frogs for its visitors. At 1 p.m. the grand opening of the Dart Frogs exhibition will take place in the Gočár’s Houses Gallery. The themed programme will offer a performance by a Brazilian dancer or a quiz trail for young and old alike. In dozens of...

After Šiška, the first Chinese pangolin to be born in Europe, Prague Zoo is once again rejoicing: another pangopup was born on Monday! It weighs 141 grams (without its umbilical cord) and its parents are again the female Run Hou Tang and the male Guo Bao.

Mobi, born at Prague Zoo in January, is the new star of the Dja Reserve. She is learning to walk and hang from a rope, while her mother, Duni, lets her go on ever more daring expeditions around the pavilion. The nearly six-month-old baby also tries to communicate with the mantled guerezas living in the same exhibit, as well as...

The Przewalski's horses that Prague Zoo transported to Kazakhstan at the beginning of June, are adapting well to the local conditions. Both groups are now fully using the acclimatization pens and have also learned to enter the ponds and drink from them. Likewise, all seven horses have also become accustomed to one another, which...

The first wombat born in the Czech Republic was officially named at Prague Zoo on Saturday June15th. Actor and presenter Ondřej Sokol named the joey Mersey, after the river flowing through the area in Tasmania that has recorded the highest number of sightings of these marsupials on the entire island. At the same time, it was...

We walked through the large acclimatization enclosure in Kazakhstan’s Golden Steppe and looked around in vain for the three Przewalski’s horses that we released here. Finally, we noticed a movement in the distance. But it was only a solitary saiga.

The Sumatran orangutan, born in Prague Zoo May 2nd, 2024, was named Harapan, which means “hope” in Indonesian. The name for the first offspring of female Diri was chosen by the keepers from almost two thousand suggestions from the public.

The trucks raced through the steppe, raising high clouds of dust behind them, along the improvised road, which the grader dug for them a few days ago. The moment when three Przewalski’s horses, loaded on their decks, would be able to leave the crammed transport crates after more than thirty hours was approaching. At that...