26/09/2008

Our emperor tamarin (Saguinus imperator) family it’s beginning to leave it’s inside enclosure to sunbath, and wander across the canopy. The process of habituation of the 7 different species of marmosets is a long and delicate, but step by step we are achieving goals and this group is ready to enjoy their outsides walks. Our emperor tamarin family is composed by eight members the breeding couple and 6 offspring. Come along to see them. Let’s see if you are capable of sighting them among the branches, leaves and vegetation of their enclosure.

26/09/2008

A part of the white stork hatchlings and sea lions calf, we would like to announce the first ever birth of a violet plantain-eater (Musophaga violacea) in our zoo. Both hatchlings of these colourful African bird, hatched their eggs in mid June, and nowadays, they already leave the nest to run along the branches of the trees of their enclosure. Among many other births, five aquatic lizard (Hydrosaurus pustulatus), one European wisent (Bison bonasus) and two blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) were born in the last months.

26/09/2008

Like every year, around the ending of June, we have news of the sea lions (Zalophus californianus) family. In this occasion, the news are that there are three newborns: two males and a female. As usual, they got their names of the same first letter of its mothers name: the males Balú and Trasto, sons of Biña and Trjntie, and the female called Noa, daughter of Nora. The father of them all is Joao, our amazing male leader.

26/09/2008

On the March e-zoo bulletin we were talking about the new white stork enclosure. The adaptation of these birds to it has been so successful that two of the three couples had begun to build the nest and to lay eggs. The past June the 3rd, a single hatchling was born from the second nest. Nowadays the youngsters are achieving a considerable size and can only be distinguished by its uncoloured beak and their dark hind limbs. The white stork breeding program couldn’t begun better.