News

The Easter weekend at the Prague Zoo will offer a treasure hunt, free guided tours of the new Gobi exhibit, and an excursion to the Bird Wetlands. There will also be a special meeting with the three-month-old female gorilla Mobi on both weekend days.

The Gobi exhibit at Prague Zoo includes a presentation of a globally significant palaeontological site: the striking red rock formations near which fossilised dinosaur eggs were first discovered. The 1923 American expedition that made the find named the area the “Flaming Cliffs”.

The mystical olgoi-khorkhoi was once a great mystery. This is no longer the case; we know the truth about it. Now you can even come and see the animal, which used to be its archetype.

It was constantly below zero in Astana last week. However, it didn’t matter too much because we spent almost all our four-day-long stay there in meetings and negotiations.

The first transports of Przewalski’s horses from Europe to Kazakhstan will take place this June in the framework of the project entitled Return of the Wild Horses 2024. 

I met the Zoos Victoria Director Dr Jenny Gray after almost two years. In the administration building of Melbourne Zoo we talked about what had happened during that time. “And most importantly, after ten years of fruitless searching we found Victorian dragon. It went unobserved for fifty-four years and many considered it...

Today, on Saturday, February 10, we published the name of the gorilla female, born in Prague Zoo at the very beginning of this year. Sure, I will write it at the end of this text, but first about selecting the name. In fact, this time we proceeded in a completely unconventional way. We asked the children from Cameroonian town...

Felines are found in the wild across nearly the entire world. However, there are regions where they do not naturally occur. One such place is the African island of Madagascar. Here, the role of the apex predator is filled by the fossa.

Today the first pangolin pup bred in Europe is turning one. Šiška (=pine cone in Czech), the female Chinese pangolin, is doing well weighing over 3 kilograms and eating roughly two-thirds of her parents' food portion every day. Prague Zoo has prepared a special birthday programme for the upcoming weekend.