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Prague Zoo signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Cameroonian Ministry of Forests and Fauna to continue their collaboration in nature conservation. This primarily applies to the Dja Biosphere Reserve, which is inhabited by critically endangered western lowland gorillas, chimpanzees, African forest elephants and pangolins,...

Prague Zoo’s visitors can now see Wallace’s flying frogs in the Indonesian Jungle. The membranes between their toes catch air as they fall and thanks to them, the frogs can “fly” a distance of up to fifteen metres. It’s not just their ability to glide that makes these arboreal amphibians so impressive, they also have...

This year marks 120 years since the football club AFK Vršovice, today’s Bohemians 1905, was founded. That’s why I made a little search into the history of kangaroos, which are inseparably connected with this club.

On Tuesday 14 January, a contract was signed between Prague Zoo and Metrostav DIZ s r. o., which won the tender to construct the Arctic exhibition complex, all at a significantly lower price than was budgeted for. The assumed budget, including VAT, amounted to CZK 1,023,297,000, while the tendered price was CZK 755,025,000.

Altogether 1,043 young of reptiles, birds and mammals have been born or hatched during 2024. It is not so much about their total number, but rather the exceptionality of many of them. Only a few zoological gardens can boast of three ape babies in one year, and no other zoo in Europe has raised a second pangolin baby. However,...

The area of the Strictly Protected Area Great Gobi A in southwestern Mongolia is comparable with Switzerland. It is a deserted, remote part of the world, but for years we have been participating here in protection of the wild camel. An uninformed layman would probably not be able to tell it apart from the domestic Bactrian...

Five-month-old pangolin female Connie hasn’t even noticed the special diluted mixture. She even walked through it in the plastic feeding box and smeared it on the bottom. She thus clearly illustrated the big problem that we had been struggling with for weeks: we could not graduate her from the mother’s milk to the food of...

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The Caribbean is home to a vast array of reptiles and the largest of its islands, Cuba, is a real treasure trove. Over 150 species of reptiles dwell there (13 times more than in the one-quarter smaller Czech Republic) of which more than 90 per cent do not live anywhere else!