Zoos in France

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For information, there are more 200 zoos in France

Thank you very much for the link! It would be great if you could post news from french zoos here for those who don`t speak french or not that good.

I read the news about the new leopards in the Paris zoo (jardin des plantes) and I have two questions:

Regarding the chinese leopards, do you know where the new female is from and to which zoo the young male went?

Regarding the clouded leopards, I guess one of them is from Prague Zoo, the young breeding pair had cubs a few months ago. But where is the second coming from? Cubs have been born in Germany only in Frankfurt and these are only a few weeks old and still with their mother.

For the clouded leopards,(5 months and 7 months years), there is One comes from Germany, the other of Tchéquie.

For chinese leopards, 1 female (to replace sina dead on February 15, 2007), the contact with Male will be made in the weeks come. 1 of the young people left. The second should leave soon.
I know that that.

1 snow leopard arrived from Italy. One second should not be long in arriving.

- 2 red Panda were born at June. They should be visible with the public towards the end of September.

The zoos more importants in France are:
Zooparc de Beauval
Zoo d'Amnéville
Zoo de la Palmyre
Zoo de la Flèche
Bioparc de Doué la Fontaine

the plans for the renovated vincennes zoo in paris look very exciting with the zoo split into zones from madagascar to patagonia and one of the illustrations look to have an enormous indoor area for african savannah speices including giraffe under a huge glass roof

The project of vincennes zoo is pushed back in 2011. After, the vincennes zoo will be splendid.

Is the Pangolin at Vincennes still on show or is it put behind the scenes? Or has it died?

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The Pangolin lived with the jardin des plantes and not at vincennes. The pangolin is died.

looking at it beauval zoo would seem to have one of the best collections in europe at the moment with its herd of african elephant and breeding group of gorilla with 1 recently born and a breeding group of tree kangaroo, groups of somali wild ass, okapi, orang utan and manatee.

Yes, Beauval have a very eclectic mix of animals nowadays, and the collection is still growing too. When their original trio Gorillas didn't breed, they changed things by adding two more females obtained from Howletts. When that didn't do the trick for the nonbreeding male 'Yangu' they didn't waste too much time before getting in a new capable male. He was young silverback 'Asato' who had been living at Paignton and is the last offspring of Jersey's famous 'Jambo'.

Apparently when Asato was introduced to three of the Beauval females, he was mating within an HOUR of introduction! (That's why I never believe a zoo that says 'we are still hoping our gorillas will start to breed soon' - it doesn't work like that....)

That was good management on Beauval's part. They got a baby too.

grantsmb,

It gets even better with the gorillas at Beauval. Both Inge and Sheila are pregnant and due in 2008!

As you said already if a new silverback does not make his impression in the first year in a new group, he never will. Other examples for this are Amsterdam Zoo (new male Akili after 2 unsuccesful males and all 3 resident females pregnant within the year) and Apenheul (new male Jambo, a little young perhaps but already 2 females pregnant by him within a year).

This is what usually happens but there are other examples; Buzandi in Hannover needed more time to gain the respect of the females and now he is a fabulous family father who is breeding with 4 females.

That is really good news at BEauval. I knew Asato would be okay as he's mother-reared. Contrast Asato's performance there with his similar aged 'friend' at Paignton- Awali. Awali was born at Artis and then handreared. He left Paignton at the same time, going to Barcelona. But he only makes sexual advances to the keepers....

I have heard of other Gorilla males which mated immediately on introduction to new females.(I think Twycross Sekondi did when introduced to Ozala, despite ignoring Asante for years) An experienced keeper once told me that if there's no mating( or obvious sex interest) in the early months after introduction, that it won't happen. Any more time is just a waste...

I believe one female at Beauval (was it Sheila?) was still being kept with the original nonbreeding silverback 'Yangu' as company. Maybe they ran her in with Asato for mating...

Oh yes, there are many different situations to be sure. I think if there is some sexual tension of some sort then it will work eventually. What is bad is where a male is so obvioualy not interested and the females lose any fear or respect for him. They are all bored and the male needs changing for another.

Buzandi is a super male. I heard that he was typically aggressive at the beginning but then he settled down and is now a model father and group leader...

Beauval had evil has to have babies gorillas with Yangu but now there it is a success.

Sorry, please can you repeat this post- I do not quite understand...