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Fancy a curlew, a coua or a kiskadee? Prague Zoo has welcomed four new bird species. The Eurasian curlew catches the eye with its long bill; the endemic blue coua with its metallic sheen; the agile great kiskadee with its remarkable boldness; and the (until know unmentioned) rufous-vented laughingthrush can be seen nowhere else...

At first it seemed there were six young, but the keepers were soon surprised by a “magical” seventh. Prague Zoo has welcomed the birth of capybaras, with the world’s largest rodents producing the largest litter in the zoo’s history. All seven pups can now be seen in the enclosure in the lower part of the zoo, which they...

A quartet of critically endangered eastern bongo antelopes, including a male from Prague Zoo, has arrived in Kenya. Nicol Adamcová, the Czech Ambassador to Kenya, symbolically handed the animals over to the Kenyan government at Nairobi airport. This took place 52 years after Josef Vágner brought the ancestors of these...

Prague Zoo has welcomed a baby Mexican spider monkey. The tiny primate is doing well, suckling its mother’s milk and clinging tightly to her abdomen. It can be seen on the Monkey Islands in the zoo’s lower grounds. This Mexican subspecies is threatened with extinction, making it one of the rarest mammals kept at Prague Zoo....

Frolicking siblings, joeys jumping out of pouches and young animals simply discovering the world: Prague Zoo has welcomed its spring newborns, and its pavilions and enclosures are full of life. This year, the Gobi exhibit has reported its first Przewalski’s horse foal, while Darwin Crater first welcomed a wombat joey and now a...

The little common wombat at Prague Zoo is a female, like her older sister. Last week, the zoo officially presented the second joey of these popular marsupials to the public. She is the second ‘Czech’ wombat to be born in the Darwin Crater exhibit. Actor and presenter Ondřej Sokol, a long-time supporter and patron of...

A new Nubian giraffe has arrived at Prague Zoo. The three-year-old female arrived in March, having travelled from Leipzig Zoo in Germany. She was born there and was the first calf of Matyáš, a male from Prague. In Leipzig, they named her Niara, which means “with utmost purpose” in Swahili. She may well fulfil this at...

A bearded vulture chick has hatched at Prague Zoo. It is exactly two decades since this mighty bird of prey last bred in Prague. It is the first offspring of the new breeding pair, which comes from a critically endangered Corsican line of bearded vultures. The chick, with its rare genes, is currently staying in the zoo’s...

Four eastern bongo males, one of the most endangered large mammals, are being prepared for transport from Europe to Kenya. The Aberdare Range is the last refuge where a few dozen of these antelopes survive in the wild. The goal is to strengthen the remaining population with genetically valuable individuals.