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He stands over five metre tall, yet is anything but aloof. He weighs 1,238 kilograms but boasts long legs and excellent condition. He belongs to a naturally cautious species, and yet allows blood to be taken from his jugular vein. And although he is now in his ninth year, he has not yet had the opportunity to reproduce. We are...

Not in a den box, nor behind the scenes. Two caracal kittens born at Prague Zoo in May came into the world out in the open—and in the rain. The first offspring of a new breeding pair have, however, proved remarkably hardy, and today they can be seen playfully chasing each other in the outdoor enclosure of the Feline and...

An early evening visit to Prague Zoo will cost just 100 CZK throughout the summer holidays. All visitors can enter the zoo for this special price after 5 pm. The offer runs from 1 July to 31 August and applies to physical tickets purchased at any ticket office between 5 and 7 pm. While the zoo gates, pavilions and restaurants...

Rare chicks of two vulture species, three zoological gardens and one common goal. This neatly sums up the collaboration between Prague Zoo, Zlín Zoo and Ostrava Zoo in rearing young cinereous vultures and Egyptian vultures. Thanks to the joint effort, expertise and coordination of specialists from all three institutions,...

Suckling, sleeping and growing stronger: after a full seven years, a Cape fur seal pup is being raised at Prague Zoo. The young male was born to female Daisy on 5 June. Although she began caring for her first offspring immediately, she initially did not have enough milk, so keepers had to introduce supplementary feeding. Now,...

Green anacondas at Prague Zoo are once again on view. The trio of snakes has returned from the off-show area to a refurbished exhibit in the Feline and Reptile House. The keepers used the transfer as an opportunity to weigh and measure the snakes. The longest anaconda measures 420 centimetres, while the heaviest weighs 82 kilograms.

The route between Prague and Ostrava saw Asian elephants travelling in both directions yesterday. Several-tonne males were exchanged between the zoos of the two cities. Twenty-eight-year-old Maxim arrived in the capital from the Silesian metropolis, while forty-three-year-old Ankhor set off from Prague’s Troja district for...

A young bearded vulture that hatched at Prague Zoo this March has been released into the wild. The juvenile female will soon be soaring above the Sierra Nevada mountains in Andalusia, Spain. Colleagues from the Vulture Conservation Foundation have named her Alhorí, after a local glacial valley. The European population of these...

A new environment, unfamiliar scents and sounds—and, above all, unknown neighbours. White-belted ruffed lemurs, which are among the largest and most vocal of all lemurs, settled into their new home surprisingly quickly. Visitors to Prague Zoo previously saw them opposite the giant tortoises; today they share the walk-through...