About zoo

About zoo
The puppet-rearing technique prevents the chick from becoming attached to its human keeper. At Prague Zoo, this method is also used for the hand-rearing of other species, including lesser yellow-headed vultures, rhinoceros hornbills and Javan green magpies. Photo: Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

An exceptional Egyptian vulture chick is growing up at Prague Zoo. Both of its parents come from the wild, and both owe their survival to international cooperation among experts. The male, known as Brok (“Pellet” in Czech), was shot in Lebanon and arrived at Prague Zoo in June 2022. In September that same year, a...

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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