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).

A second baby Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) was born in the Prague Zoo, Czech Republic this year. The 31-year-old experienced mother Kijivu gave birth to the baby last Friday. It is not the first addition to the family lately since Kijivu's 11-year old granddaughter Duni delivered her first born – a female...

Last Friday I published in a newspaper a photo of the gorilla female Mobi “looking out” for a sibling. By that I meant the baby, which Kijivu was due to give birth any day, if not any second.

Olgoi-khorkhoi – the mythical killing worm from the Gobi Desert – is perhaps better known today in Czech Republic than in Mongolia itself. It happened thanks to Czech enigmologists, who searched for it in local sand dunes. And on top of that, one of them, the late Ivan Mackerle, gave rise to olgoi-khorkhoi‘s world-wide...