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It is twelve months to the day, since the birth of a Geoffroy's spider monkey baby at Prague Zoo. The little primate, who was later named Tiko, is doing well and frolics for days in front of visitors to the Monkey Islands. At the same time, he is one of Prague Zoo’s most important additions. The critically endangered...

Two young tayra or high-woods dogs, as they are called in Trinidad, are now on display at Prague Zoo. From this week on, visitors can observe them in the exhibit near the polar bear enclosure. Under the watchful eye of their mother, the little mustelids generally leave their burrow in the morning and then during the afternoon feeding after 3 pm.

On September 1st, the entrance fee for all children under 15 is one crown. For this symbolic admission fee, schoolchildren will spend the first day of September among animals instead of at their school desks. On the last Friday of the summer holidays, they will also enjoy a completely different timetable - commented feedings and...

Prague Zoo in the Czech republic celebrates one of the greatest successes in its history. The breeding of the female Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) is considered successful as the pup born in February has reached the age of six months and has ceased to drink the mother's milk and fully switched to a solid diet. It is the...

Prague Zoo is relishing the addition of several ungulates. Visitors walking round the enclosures can observe a pair of critically endangered addaxes, a young Mishmi takin, which came completely out of the blue, a young Finnish forest reindeer, rarely bred in captivity, or Chinese gorals. The keepers also feel the prospects for...

I missed the first two mountain bongos this year – by that I mean I did not see them on the day they were born - but the third one was a Sunday baby and I managed to be there. I found it lying at the feet of his now 14-year-old mother Maureen, who was watching me attentively. Everything seemed to be running smoothly....

Šiška, the female Chinese pangolin, is now six months old and has switched from breast milk to an adult diet. This is why, last week, Prague Zoo declared her the first newborn pangolin to have been successfully reared in Europe. In relation to this historic achievement, there have been many questions from the media and...

The female of Chinese pangolin Šiska was half-a-year-old on Wednesday. We can consider her breeding completed – and we can add another item to the list of historical achievements of Prague Zoo, in this case in bold.

The kea chicks have taken up residence in the exhibition with their parents. The little parrots were artificially fed in the rear facilities, so it is only now that they have met the parent pair – a male, Rudy, and a female, Judy. This makes the first aviary in the Rákos’ Pavilion near the main entrance a very lively place...