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Frankfurt Zoo
09-07-2008

Frankfurt Zoo has stopped keeping clouded leopards and sent away the breeding pair with the last young to Ekilstuna,sweden.
That's unbelivable, because the formely director needed a few years to get them from Howletts and has build a very good and expensive exhibit for the clouded leopards in the"Cat-Jungle Southeast Asia".

In 2006 they bred for the first time, but the babies died, as like as the next litter in 2007. Now they have the third litter and raised successfully one young.

The reason for this is, because the clouded leopards were invisable for the zoo vistors, they never could see them ! Of course, they are noctornal animals, but the visitors didn't care about them, they are only interested in tigers and lions, and both species can be seen in the same house.

The new zoodirector wants to protect endangerd wildlife, is this the right way,protecting animals, to give away a highly endangerd species, which has just start breeding ?

And if " invisable"animals are now a reason to gave up keeping them, a lot of more species has to leave the Frankfurt Zoo, the Tree kangaroos,the Aye-Aye's and Kiwis, a lot of reptiles, all these are species, which are not easy to see them, because the vistors are not looking hard enough for them, just a few seconds, and if they don't see an animal in the exhibit, they went to the next enclosure. " Oh, it's nothing inside here". Everyone of us knows that very good.

I can't understand that. Now the fossas will move into the clouded leopard exhbit, because they are better to see,Ha,ha.

1. Fossas are not more active at day as the clouded leopards.
2. They are to boring for the vistors
3. Do they came from southeast asia ?

I've heared, they are just for a while in this exhibit, until the zoo found another species for the exhibit, but what species ? The exhibit is to small for leopards,
and all the small cats from southeast asia are hard to get or nocturnal....

So maybe they should keep a primate species in the exhibit. Douc langurs ?

12-08-2008

I agree that this is a stupid idea of Frankfurt Zoo. I have been to Frankfurt zoo in 2007, it is a great exhbit for clouded leopards and a perfect species for a southeast asia cathouse.

I don't think they get Douc's. America wil not give aniamls, the same as Koln Zoo. Maybe is the Asian Golden Cat(Heidelberg, Munster, Rotterdam) an idea?

13-08-2008

That was just a joke with the Douc langurs. In the next time, the zoo will rebuild the formely clouded leopard exhibit for the fossa pair. A lot of people at the Zoo are not happy with the decision to give away the clouded leopards, but fossas are endangerd, and clouded leopards" are only"vulnerable.

13-08-2008

only thing is, it's not really the right continent is it.

I've visited frankfurt several times and always enjoyed the cat jungle. I also saw the clouded leopards every time. they ARE hard to find, but with some effort it's not that difficult.

I do believe, however, they made a few structural mistakes. the animals can reach a few places where they are almost completely out of sight. I don't think they counted on them getting this high in the (outdoor)exhibit.

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