About zoo

About zoo
While hatching rates can reach 80 % in parthenogenetic reproduction, they fall to below 60 % in sexual reproduction. The newly arrived eggs were laid in May and June, and their incubation will take around seven months. Photo: Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

Another significant milestone in the breeding of up to 15-cm-long “tree lobsters”. Prague Zoo has received 300 eggs of the critically endangered Lord Howe Island stick insect from San Diego Zoo—and they are no ordinary eggs. They were produced through sexual reproduction involving fertilisation, which gives rise to both...

History

The history of Prague Zoo goes all the way back to the year 1881, when, on the occasion of the wedding of Crown Prince Rudolf and Princess Stephanie of Belgium, Count Sweerts-Sporck published an open letter in the newspapers calling for the establishment of a zoological garden in Prague.


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