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Prague Zoo welcomed the offspring of one of today’s most popular animal species – the capybara. The world’s largest rodent has gained extraordinary popularity in recent years, especially on social media. All four young capybaras can already be seen in the Water World and Monkey Islands exhibit, located in the lower part of Prague Zoo.

During my short stay at the very east of Mongolia, in the Valley of Monasteries, I could not get enough of the diversity of steppe flowers and the richness of insect. I quickly captured at least some representatives of local flora and fauna on my mobile phone, so that I could remember and identify them later.

Together they play, lurk and test their parents’ patience. Visitors to the Prague Zoo can now see two adorable jaguarundi kittens. Although the Prague Zoo has been breeding these South American felines since the 1990s, this is the first time you can see twins carrying the “fox gene”. Jaguarundi are naturally found in...

The last time I was in Toli Bulag, deep in the Mongolian steppe, was many years ago with Mongolian conservationist Adiya and the Deputy Director for Zoology of our zoo Jaroslav Šimek. I can’t even remember exactly, when it was. At that time, we visited Toli Bulag to assess if this locality, whose name could be translated as...

In Prague Zoo, two mountain bongo males were born: the first on August 6th and the second on August 18th. Both can now be seen in the enclosure next to the hippo pavilion. These are very rare additions, as the mountain bongo is considered the most beautiful but also the rarest antelope: only around thirty to forty individuals...

A surprise awaited us during our August visit to Khalkhgol, Mongolia’s easternmost province. After the director of the Nömrög National Park, D. Naranbaatar, had received the new Land Cruiser 79 from us, which will help when building the reintroduction centre for Przewalski’s horses in the Valley of Monasteries, he...

Prague Zoo has introduced its new Sumatran tiger. Nine-year-old Achilles arrived from Howletts Wild Animal Park in England to join four-year-old female Surya. It is hoped they will have cubs here in Prague. The charismatic Londoner likes to observe his surroundings from raised platforms, when bathing he enters the water with his...

The first Przewalski’s horse to touch the Golden Steppe in central Kazakhstan in hundreds of years was the mare Zeta II in June last year. She was born in spring 2021 in Dolní Dobřejov and was named after a famous mare born at the same place in 1994, who had 12 foals in the Mongolian Gobi and lived there to the respectable...

On Saturday, 26 July, slalom canoeist and Olympic champion Jiří Prskavec Jr. symbolically ‘christened’ a young bison at Prague Zoo. The five-week-old female was named Prskavka (Sparkler), a name put forward by Bronislava Vališová from Prague in a competition on the iDNES.cz portal. In all there were 3,078 suggestions,...