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Suckling, sleeping and growing stronger: after a full seven years, a Cape fur seal pup is being raised at Prague Zoo. The young male was born to female Daisy on 5 June. Although she began caring for her first offspring immediately, she initially did not have enough milk, so keepers had to introduce supplementary feeding. Now,...

Green anacondas at Prague Zoo are once again on view. The trio of snakes has returned from the off-show area to a refurbished exhibit in the Feline and Reptile House. The keepers used the transfer as an opportunity to weigh and measure the snakes. The longest anaconda measures 420 centimetres, while the heaviest weighs 82 kilograms.

The route between Prague and Ostrava saw Asian elephants travelling in both directions yesterday. Several-tonne males were exchanged between the zoos of the two cities. Twenty-eight-year-old Maxim arrived in the capital from the Silesian metropolis, while forty-three-year-old Ankhor set off from Prague’s Troja district for...

A young bearded vulture that hatched at Prague Zoo this March has been released into the wild. The juvenile female will soon be soaring above the Sierra Nevada mountains in Andalusia, Spain. Colleagues from the Vulture Conservation Foundation have named her Alhorí, after a local glacial valley. The European population of these...

A new environment, unfamiliar scents and sounds—and, above all, unknown neighbours. White-belted ruffed lemurs, which are among the largest and most vocal of all lemurs, settled into their new home surprisingly quickly. Visitors to Prague Zoo previously saw them opposite the giant tortoises; today they share the walk-through...

Four Przewalski’s horse mares have safely arrived in Kazakhstan from Berlin. Togs and Shara, originally from the UK’s Marwell Zoo, Bela, born in Nuremberg, and Theresa from the partner institution Tierpark Berlin, were released into acclimatisation enclosures at the Alibi reintroduction centre yesterday at ten minutes past...

Curious and playful kits with unmistakable ears—three young bat-eared foxes—have begun venturing out of their natal den at Prague Zoo. This follows a long hiatus in breeding, as it was difficult to find a suitable partner for the zoo’s genetically valuable male, intended as the founder of a new European breeding line. The...

Przewalski’s horses transported from Prague Zoo have safely arrived in Kazakhstan after a 15-hour flight. A subsequent 11-hour overland journey on the beds of lorries carried them from Kostanay to the Altyn Dala State Nature Reserve (the Golden Steppe). There, shortly before 8 pm, they were released into an...

Thanks to Prague Zoo and the Czech Air Force, four Przewalski’s horses departed for Kazakhstan today, all of them stallions—a first in the history of these transports. The world’s last remaining species of wild horse will land in Kostanay aboard a CASA aircraft, from where a ground convoy will continue to the Golden...