Lions as well as other large carnivores occasionally also hunt porcupines, probably mostly when they don’t have enough of their usual food, or when young males in particular test their limits (which is, all in all, a feature of all young males of a lot of animal species including humans).

Porcupine’s spines are an item in demand, weather as a souvenir, or a material for fishing floats. However, when I visited the Archives of the City of Prague, I discovered to my surprise that the restorers also use them when cleaning the bindings of old books. Lo and behold! I immediately offered that our zoo would become...

More and more animals and plants are gradually being added to Prague Zoo’s lower grounds. This is the Zoo of Light project, which is being readied by a company called Garden of Lights. The Zoo of Light will include lanterns of 33 species of animals totalling 110 specimens, as well as plants, projections on the ground or...

Today the female gorilla Gaia is exactly six months old. To have current pictures of her for this opportunity, I went to take her photos ahead of time.

This time I missed Humboldt penguins in their most noticeable courtship, part of which is a loud honking. I have, however, taken a lot of photos of the individual pairs collecting material for nest linings and showing affection to each other. The head keeper Kuba Mezei then identified them to me, so it came out that I also took...

On September 28th, Prague Zoo celebrated its 93rd birthday and looked back at 65 years of managing the International Stud Book for the Przewalski’s Horse, which it has been doing since 1959. This event was opened in front of the Gobi exhibition, newly opened this year, by the ambassadors of Mongolia and Kazakhstan, the Mayor...

Prague Zoo’s visitors can now see tiger keelbacks that are rarely kept in zoos. These brightly coloured reptiles are fascinating, due to both their colour and because they are venomous and poisonous. Their venom is toxic, and is injected into their prey’s body, however, because they eat toads, they absorb other toxins, which...

Wild living wombats are threatened by scabies, which spread to Australia from Europe 200 years ago. It currently infects about 70 per cent of all wild common wombats. If not treated, scabies is fatal. This is why Prague Zoo has given financial support to the non-profit organisation Wombat Rescue, which rescues wombats around the...

Prague Zoo is the first Czech zoo to breed black and rufous elephant shrews. Also known as sengi, these small African mammals have a bizarre appearance. The two newborns are the result of several years of attempts to breed them. Although elephant shrews may at first glance resemble rodents or shrews, they are in the ancient...