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A great ape hat trick – that is one way to describe the most outstanding trio of young to be born at Prague Zoo this year. Both the baby gorillas and the orangutan are doing very well and are coming out to see the visitors more and more. Mobi likes to play on the ropes and is now swinging upside down, while his younger sister...

The baby Chinese pangolin, born on July 1st in Prague Zoo, was named Connie. The name was chosen by the public from a list of names on the Internet. The name is based on the English word cone. The godfather was Lukáš Dědek, director of Bidfood, a company that is a long-term supporter of protecting endangered species and works...

It is known all over the world that since July 1 we have the second baby of Chinese pangolin in Prague Zoo; its photos have been published in media from the United States to India to Japan. But this is how it started – and I happened to be around.

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...