Winter holiday programme
Campaigns | 26 January 2024Enjoy a cool trip to Dresden Zoo this winter. Between 10th and 25th February, find out all about your favourite animals every day at 11 am, with ...
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Annual inventory at the zoo
Campaigns | 10 January 2024As we start the new year, we look back on the old one and look forward to an exciting year at the zoo in 2024. Exciting, because this year we ...
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Baby koala christened Janali
Animal news | 15 December 2023It’s a girl! The first koala joey to be born at Dresden Zoo and has been named Janali. The name derives from the Aboriginal word meaning ...
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Three-banded armadillos welcome a new arrival
Animal news | 12 December 2023Female armadillo Bu gave birth to her second pup around four weeks ago. At birth, three-banded armadillos are about the size of a table tennis ...
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Our Bactrian camel flock gains a new member
Animal news | 20 November 2023The young cow born on 8 October 2022 at Allwetterzoo Münster and now resident in Dresden goes by the name of Manila. Our Bactrian camel family ...
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Working together to counter global species extinction
Species protection | 12 October 2023Species conservation is a key task of modern zoos and is even enshrined in Section 42 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act ...
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Baby koala makes debut appearance
Animal news | 4 October 2023It was clear from female koala Eerin’s increasingly rounded pouch and the movements visible inside it: the baby koala was growing fast and it ...
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Happy 50th birthday!
Animal news | 29 August 2023Today marked a proud anniversary for our female orangutan Djudi. Born to Ringo and Uschi at Dresden Zoo on 29 August 1973, she is now ...
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New arrivals among the banded mongooses
Animal news | 8 August 2023It’s all go in the banded mongoose enclosure at the moment ‒ on 19 July, seven young animals were born in the indoor pen, which is not ...
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Bactrian camel cow Inka gives birth
Animal news | 13 July 2023After a gestation period of about 13 months, Inka delivered a bouncing baby girl on 7 July 2023. Due to the infant’s relatively large size, ...
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