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10-05-2007

Is there anyone who can tell me whether Rotterdam still has Emperor penguins. My friend went about 4 years ago and he said that they had some. Are there any other new or really endangered animals that they have there?

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10-05-2007

Yes Rotterdam Zoo still has a group of Emperor Pinguins, kept indoors in their Oceanarium building.

The collection of Rotterdam Zoo is easily the largest in Holland with a huge collection of rare animals. Some of the highlights, but there are many many more:
- Szechuan Takins
- Francois langurs
- Puffin's
- Tufted deer
- Temminck's golden cat
- Rusty spotted cat
- Komodo dragon
- short-beaked echidna
- Mhorr gazelle
- Sea-otters
- chinese alligator
- Okapis
- Indian Rhino
- Chinese giant salamander
- white-nosed guenon
- white-crowned mangabey
- Hammerhead shark (the smaller species..)

That's just out of the top of my head, but their curator has a thing for the rare and exotic, which imo is great. Their collection of reptiles is gigantic with a lot more exotic stuff... The aquarium is also huge with a lot of different fish.

10-05-2007

I also know that they have the largest breeding group of negros island warty pig. The 2 pairs at chester came from Rotterdam.

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11-06-2007

They also have one of the only Yellow backed Duikers in Europe!!

A very nice species, it's very common in U.S Zoos.

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12-06-2007

Yellow-backed Duiker at Rotterdam Zoo? I've been gone for 2 days and haven't caught up with all the news yet but afaik only Wuppertal and Neurenberg Zoo (both Germany) have yellow-backed duikers...

confused with tufted deer?

13-06-2007

I ight be... I think I just got confused with the names. There are so many zoos in your region!!

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18-06-2007

Sorry, but Rotterdam Zoo does not have emperor pinguins, but the more common king pinguins. It's a great exhibit though . And Rotterdam Zoo is the best zoo i have seen

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I am Toddy, the zoo-enthusiast from Denmark!
Different zoos visited: 77
Favourite animal: Aardvark
Website: www.zoos.dk

18-06-2007

toddy your website is marvellous, although the language barrier is a bit difficult (i now know why Princess Mary found it so hard hey?) lol

18-06-2007

I love the pictures, it looks real good and I love the picture of the gibbon this page.
zoos.dk

Now if only I could read it. Well done!

18-06-2007

Absolutely! Danish is a hard language to learn, unless you have grown up with it.


Thanks so much for the nice words! I have been working on it for quite som time. Soon, i will be opening a new website with more photos and other stuff. It will still be called zoos.dk, and still be in danish though, but i hope to translate it to english some day. Maybe i should set up a gallery with some pictures from danish zoos and a little english tekst? What do you think?

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I am Toddy, the zoo-enthusiast from Denmark!
Different zoos visited: 77
Favourite animal: Aardvark
Website: www.zoos.dk

18-06-2007

i think your website is easy enought to navigate now, even for english-speaking Aussies, and i can understand the point scale thingy etc. maybe just a translation of the zoo's name into english and in brackets the english name of the animals in the photos??? would help, then more people could enjoy your wonderful photos and site.

18-06-2007

i think the hippos and asian elephant in hannover zoo look amazing!

18-06-2007

Thank you! Since this is not the right place to discus this, i have made a new thread here

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I am Toddy, the zoo-enthusiast from Denmark!
Different zoos visited: 77
Favourite animal: Aardvark
Website: www.zoos.dk

18-06-2007

Damn mixed up Emperors and Kings

Good to see you liked Rotterdam, they are constantly expanding and recently started construction of a new Giraffe house after the recent completion of a new large aviary with bee-eaters and other migrating birds.

18-06-2007

That sounds great . How are they doing on the new "Artic" theme, with polar bears and stuff? And is the new Africa theme going to be the next project?

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I am Toddy, the zoo-enthusiast from Denmark!
Different zoos visited: 77
Favourite animal: Aardvark
Website: www.zoos.dk