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...

The fastest, the biggest, the shortest, the longest...

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!

Cats are the masters of disguise. Whether they have spots, rosettes or stripes, their fur patterns help them to break up the contours of the body. Each pattern makes for great camouflage in the very environment where the specific cat lives. Can you find four felines hidden in these pictures?

There were perhaps up to one hundred thousand tigers living in the wild at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. However, by 2022, the population size was estimated at approximately 4,600 tigers, of which 3,100 were mature. Moreover, all extant subspecies apart from the Bengal tired numbered in the hundreds.

Prague zoo is one of a few zoos here you can see representatives of all three basic variants of tigers: from large and light-coloured felines from the cold north to much smaller, richly contrast-coloured tropic dwellers

At Prague Zoo, two to three hundred reptile babies hatch each year, belonging to about forty species. The ways in which they can come into the world are quite varied, from the diverse factors that determine their gender, through the degree of parental care, to the very process of birth.