Meerkats welcome two offspring
Animal news | 28 May 2023There are two new additions to our meerkat gang. The two little ones were born around four weeks ago, well protected in an underground cave ...
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Pelican babies hatch
Animal news | 28 May 2023Great white pelican chicks sport dark and grey-black plumage, not bright and pink-white. This clearly distinguishes young pelicans from ...
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Giant tortoises return to their summer residence
Animal news | 22 May 2023This morning our Aldabra giant tortoises arrived safely at their summer residence. Hugo II, Hugo III and Hugo IV ambled the last few metres ...
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Construction update on the Orangutan House
Bauprojekte | 9 May 2023A look at the construction site of the new orangutan house shows that the shell of the building’s inner courtyard was completed during the ...
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More monkeying around at the zoo
Animal news | 4 April 2023As of today, there’s a new animal species to discover at Dresden Zoo. Three Colombian red howler monkeys from Cologne Zoo have taken up ...
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Discovering our new joey
Animal news | 3 March 2023There’s a little newcomer we’re yet to meet, currently residing in the pouch of female kangaroo Ronja. The joey, whose sex we ...
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The macaw elected Zoo Species of the Year 2023
Animal news | 30 January 2023These large, vividly coloured parrots call the rainforests of Central and South America home. Right now, several species ...
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Beastly fun – Zoo tram goes on maiden voyage
Bauprojekte | 25 January 2023Following on from the “In echt ganz anders” (“Something different in the flesh”) tram, in which made-up animals “borrowed” their fur ...
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“Research for Survival” project
Species protection | 13 January 2023Dresden Zoo uses the proceeds from the Conservation Euro to support organisations such as Sphenisco, which is dedicated to the protection of the ...
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Inventory of the animals at the zoo
Animal news | 11 January 2023At the turn of the year, all the animals at Dresden Zoo were counted and compared with the stock records. For most animal species, the tally is ...
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