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The last time I was in Toli Bulag, deep in the Mongolian steppe, was many years ago with Mongolian conservationist Adiya and the Deputy Director for Zoology of our zoo Jaroslav Šimek. I can’t even remember exactly, when it was. At that time, we visited Toli Bulag to assess if this locality, whose name could be translated as...

A surprise awaited us during our August visit to Khalkhgol, Mongolia’s easternmost province. After the director of the Nömrög National Park, D. Naranbaatar, had received the new Land Cruiser 79 from us, which will help when building the reintroduction centre for Przewalski’s horses in the Valley of Monasteries, he...

Prague Zoo has introduced its new Sumatran tiger. Nine-year-old Achilles arrived from Howletts Wild Animal Park in England to join four-year-old female Surya. It is hoped they will have cubs here in Prague. The charismatic Londoner likes to observe his surroundings from raised platforms, when bathing he enters the water with his...

The first Przewalski’s horse to touch the Golden Steppe in central Kazakhstan in hundreds of years was the mare Zeta II in June last year. She was born in spring 2021 in Dolní Dobřejov and was named after a famous mare born at the same place in 1994, who had 12 foals in the Mongolian Gobi and lived there to the respectable...

On Saturday, 26 July, slalom canoeist and Olympic champion Jiří Prskavec Jr. symbolically ‘christened’ a young bison at Prague Zoo. The five-week-old female was named Prskavka (Sparkler), a name put forward by Bronislava Vališová from Prague in a competition on the iDNES.cz portal. In all there were 3,078 suggestions,...

Prague Zoo organised this year’s first release of crucian carp. It took place in the Prague district of Michle. Approximately 250 small fish that had been bred at Prague Zoo were released into the Interlov retention pond on the edge of Kunratický Forest. This critically endangered species, which disappeared from the Czech...

Tuesday, July 1, saw this year’s first Prague Zoo Under Ice—a special event in which tons of ice cubes to cool down both the animals and visitors are distributed throughout the zoo. Prague Zoo used the occasion to announce its new seasonal package: over the summer holidays, all visitors will pay just CZK 100 for entry to the...

One of the animals, which we introduce within this year’s campaign Rare and Unique, is a beautiful African antelope mountain bongo. Its selection was absolutely clear since the very beginning. The last population in the wild survives in the Aberdare National Park, but it has only 27 to 42 individuals! In addition, the tracks...

This year’s Return of the Wild Horses seemed to be haunted by the ten plagues of Egypt. One of them struck three of my colleagues in the Kazakh steppe.