About zoo

About zoo
The baby guereza can be seen during the zoo’s opening hours. Visitors are most likely to spot it on the tummy or lap of its mother Lebamba or ‘aunt’ Nyianga. Photo by Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

A baby mantled guereza was born at Prague Zoo. This is the first time the Dja Reserve has had a birth of these African monkeys. It is also Prague's first baby of this the rarer kikuyuensis subspecies, which the zoo has been keeping since the start of the year. In contrast to its black-and-white parents, the baby is snow-white,...

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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