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The Director of Prague Zoo, Miroslav Bobek, signing the Memorandum of Cooperation to Return Przewalski’s Horses to Kazakhstan in the country’s capital Astana. Photo by Tomáš Hulík, Prague Zoo

Today, in the presence of the Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic and the Republic of Kazakhstan, Petr Fiala and Älihan Smaiylov, the Director of Prague Zoo, Miroslav Bobek, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to Return Przewalski’s Horses to Kazakhstan. There have been long-term negotiations concerning this cooperation,...

Šiška, Photo: Miroslav Bobek, Prague Zoo

For many years I had a wish, which I rather did not want to tell anybody about. It seemed so immodest and unrealistic to me.

Picture: Colonel Zelinka perfectly captured the look and functioning of Prague Zoo in the 1930s. Petr, the hippo, is depicted here with the keeper in the original house of pachyderms, which used to be at the place of today’s lemur exhibit. The headquarters of the zoo are in the background. Source: the collections of the Austrian Film Museum

Thirteen films, which found their way to us from the Austrian Film Museum, provided us with a great deal of information about the look and functioning of Prague Zoo in the 1930s. Even more exciting is the discovery that there probably were – or still are – many more of these films. Perhaps up to twenty-one! We know that...

Upon arriving at Prague Zoo four-year-old Winkleigh will become the first female wombat in the Czech Republic. She will form a breeding pair with Cooper a two-year-old male. Photo Oliver Le Que, Prague Zoo

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.

Red-legged Golden Orb-web Spider in new gorilla house — Dja Reserve, Photo: Petr Hamerník

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 second Beer Beast Festival will be on Saturday May 13th in the gardens of Troja Chateau. This year too, the proceeds from the event will help endangered species, such as the Tasmanian devil. Source Prague Zoo.

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...

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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...

Prague Zoo has acquired two male, critically endangered Siberian cranes. Photo Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

As of last week, Prague Zoo’s visitors can marvel at two male Siberian cranes. Not only is the zoo enticing visitors to see the uniquely coloured chicks of this critically endangered species, but it also has the largest collection of cranes in the Czech Republic.

Prague Zoo launched its 92nd main season with Meet Them! The campaign introduced nearly two dozen animal personalities to the public. Photo Oliver Le Que, Prague Zoo

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...

The obvious difference between the red panda and the giant panda: The first of them has a long furry tail, while the other one is completely missing this feature.

If somebody says that the red panda is a mysterious animal, I will agree. For instance, already for almost two centuries the proper classification of this carnivore has been debated. Today it is clear, that for sure it is not related to giant panda, but I will get to that later.