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The first female common wombat is heading to the Czech Republic. Prague Zoo’s team is bringing her from Copenhagen Zoo today. Four-year-old Winkleigh will form a breeding pair with two-year-old Cooper. It will be possible to see her in the Darwin Crater exhibit from roughly mid-May, following the mandatory post-import quarantine period.

It was a bit of a provocation from me. I let people vote on Twitter on whether to release nephilas in the jungle in our new gorilla house – The Dja Reserve. What an idea! Although the voting ended in a tie, otherwise reasonable people were writing angry posts in the discussion about toxicity of these spiders or neurotoxicity...

The Beer Beast Festival returns to the gardens of Troja Chateau. The second year of the charity event under the auspices of Prague Zoo will take place on Saturday, 13 May from 12.00 to 22.00. Visitors will be able to taste a variety of craft beers named for animals, listen to music by Michal Hrůza and Michal Horák and gauge...

Last year around Christmas the prominent Lugash ethnographer Charles Litton stayed in Czech Republic. Now I have received a draft of his scientific paper, which he titled “Christmas Fish: Tradition and Rituals in Czech Republic (Eastern Europe)”. Of course, I will remind him again that we are located in Central Europe, and I...

The christening of a pangolin baby, the launch of Seznamte se! (Meet Them!) and the opening of the exhibition 60 Years of Gorilla Breeding – these are just some of the things that Prague Zoo kicked off its 92nd season with. The animals that make up the new campaign were introduced, and the event was marked by the live premiere...

Monsters and weird creatures from ancient legends and old bestiaries often are not just pure figments of the imagination but tend to have their real prototypes. As it has recently transpired this is also true about the sea monster, referred to as hafgufa in Norse sagas and manuscripts. Nevertheless, its mystery has been...
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