About zoo

About zoo
Veterinarian Roman Vodička sedates a horse prior to loading it into a transport crate. Photo: Oliver Le Que, Prague Zoo

Thanks to Prague Zoo and the Czech Air Force, four Przewalski’s horses departed for Kazakhstan today, all of them stallions—a first in the history of these transports. The world’s last remaining species of wild horse will land in Kostanay aboard a CASA aircraft, from where a ground convoy will continue to the Golden...

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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