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No. 2 / june 2016 special supplement ZOO REPORT PROFI The Content The Speech The Speech What will Bc. Eduard Stuchlík Zooreport ZooReport Magazine the magazine for friends of the Brno Zoo Be? Well, Better! june 2016 No. 2/16, volume XVIII As we already announced in the last issue PAGE 3 of our magazine, ZooReport will be issued in It’s a Male Again Editor: a new form starting next year. What form? Why, Klára Vondráková and Milan Šebesta Zoo Brno a stanice zájmových činností, p. o. a better one! For now, however, let us look back U Zoologické zahrady 46, 635 00 Brno, on our past. It is said that without the past there Czech Republic is neither the present nor the future. tel.: +420 546 432 311 Our quarterly, which has been published PAGE 4 fax: +420 546 210 000 since 1998, has tried to chronicle and record e-mail: [email protected] A Paradise for Birds Is Being Created in Josefov Meadows important events in the life of the zoo. The Břeněk Michálek Publisher: transformation of our formerly stagnant zoo Peleos, spol. s r.o. into a dynamically growing institution is stored e-mail: [email protected] in our past issues. In the first year, we wrote PAGE 5 about the Tropical Kingdom pavilion, which had Editor’s office address: then recently been completed as part of the start Zoo Brno a stanice zájmových činností, p. o. A Significant Change in the Species Spectrum of that transformation. The zoo‘s rehabilitation redakce Zooreportu at the Owls’ Exposition was also supported by the then-new restaurant Bc. Eduard Stuchlík Petr Suvorov U Zoologické zahrady 46, 635 00 Brno, Czech Republic overlooking the paddock for tigers, which opened tel.: +420 546 432 370 in 2002. Other building milestones were created PAGES 6, 7 fax: +420 546 210 000 by the zoo‘s breeding concept, which is based on to visit the zoo (especially when the weather had fewer offspring. (For example, in 2011 we e-mail: [email protected] the theory of the evolution of life on Earth. In is nice), just as people are today. Some people, wrote about the complications that had arisen Let It Grow! our Nordic fauna exposition complex, Beringia, unfortunately, are subject to prejudices which in the wolf pack, which intuited that pups could Jana Galová Editor manager: our visitors can see, for example, Kamchatka probably cannot be eradicated. For example, be fed by two mothers, and so grew until there Bc. Eduard Stuchlík bears; and our Kalahari complex, containing there are those who think that zoo animals suffer were twenty-four individuals.) Specialist readers: an African village, is also gradually being built. from hunger. An emphasis on awareness accom- After eighteen years, it is surely time for PAGE 8 RNDr. Bohumil Král, CSc. The magazine also celebrated the fiftieth panies our zoo, as it has from the beginning, and a change in our magazine. We want to focus Mgr. Lubomír Selinger and sixtieth anniversaries of the zoo, which currently we offer educational programs for the more on the ordinary visitor, to notice what is Hot news opened in 1953. The zoo’s history, however, as public in the area of Mniší hora, and also in the happening in the zoo itself and in its surround- Emendation: has been chronicled in ZooReport, goes back Hlídka environmental education centre in the ings, and to feature stories of individual animals. Rosalind Miranda even to the interwar period. Our predecessors, park under Špilberk Castle. The former special section will be replaced by Distribution: the pioneers who built Brno Zoo, understood It is actually simple to prepare the maga- a children’s section. I personally look forward PAGE 9 500 pcs in the English version a zoological garden‘s importance in the broader zine of Brno Zoo, as there is always something to giving my two little grandchildren the op- 1,500 pcs in the Czech version context, and even in today’s context: that a zoo going on here: New exhibitions are being built, portunity to read and paint in our new format Malá lední medvědice dostala jméno Noria, is to entertain, but also to educate the public by more young animals are being born. Although of ZooReport. k její expozici míří davy The author of non-attributed texts is: displaying animals reared in conditions close to there could perhaps be even more exhibitions, for Bc. Eduard Stuchlík, Eduard Stuchlík nature. They made sure that people were happy some animal species it would be better if they Editor Manager of ZooReport Magazine Photos by: PAGE 10 Eduard Stuchlík Bc. Eduard Stuchlík Crowds Head to the Paddock of Our Baby was born in 1943 in Brno, where he graduated from high school and medical school. His original profession was as an X-ray technician. He worked from 1962 First page: Polar Bear to 1969 in healthcare. In 1970, he accepted a position as a proof-reader for Rudé právo in Brno, and stayed with them until 1992. The following year, he became Klára Vondráková and René Albrecht Yelow-footed rock-wallabies an editor of the Brno newspaper Rovnost, to which he also contributed articles on the arts, especially photography. His interest in this discipline brought him to the Silesian University in Opava, where, in 1997, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in creative photography. He has edited ZooReport Magazine since 2002; and, UNSALEABLE in his first five years there, he was also the spokesperson for the zoo. PAGE 11 2 3 The Caution The Presentation of fish in front of the entrance to the winter shelter. A Paradise for Birds Kamchatka, followed by her cub, would come out to Is Being Created take the fish into the lair. Soon word spread that, at in Josefov Meadows feeding time, visitors could see the little Kamchatka Josefov Meadows, the first private bird sanctuary brown bear. in the country, is near Jaroměř in Eastern Bohemia. Until the end of April, Jelizar was allowed comple- It is located in the island floodplain surrounded by te freedom of movement. He went to the base where the naturally meandering Metuje River, its artificially he slept, moved around the paddock, and bathed in excavated side channel, and Jasenský Creek. The park the lake. But on April 26th, a grim snorting male bear can be visited for free by pedestrians and cyclists, and was seen thumping around the grass by the burrows, events for the general public are held there. which told us that he had come to blows with the Two members of the Czech Society for Orni- female. We lured Jelizar away with fish, and he is thology got the idea to establish the park about ten now once again separated from Kamchatka and the years ago. This company decided in 2006 to begin cub, who started spending more and more time above purchasing plots there with the help of sponsors and ground. By the end of May they had already begun to donors in order to implement a plan according to Michálek Břeněk Photo explore distant parts of the enclosure. On June 6th, we the wishes of its members. So far, about one third After the repair of a century-old irrigation system, the flooded Josefov Meadows was changed into a bird managed to entice them – as always, using fish – to of the hoped-for approximately seventy hectares of paradise. The tower of the church in Josefov is in the background. the back of the enclosure, where we were able to flooded meadows has been bought. separate them so that the vet could vaccinate the cub. During the realignment of the Metuje River greatest beauty among waders; and the long-legged Only then did we discover that the baby is a male. about a hundred years ago, a system of locks, gates, spotted redshank (Tringa erythropus). Experts also Once Kamchatka and the cub were moved into and canals was established. This controlled the inflow take delight in the common redshank (Tringa totanus), the back area, the breeders succeeded in isolating and outflow of flood water according to the needs of a bird which had practically vanished from the Czech Jelizar in a separate part there. This gave us an the meadow farming community. After World War Republic. In the period 2005–2016, ornithologists Kamchatka and her cub take fish into the lair opportunity to quickly clean the enclosure, which II, the system gradually ceased to be used. This spotted 161 bird species on the Josefov Meadows. was especially necessary near the entrance of the unique technical monument has been renewed by One particularly remarkable event of 2012, when an Michálek Břeněk Photo It‘s a Male Again two months. On the 29th of January, Jelizar suddenly den. For a few days all three lived in the back of the ornithologists. With the arrival of seasonally regulated estimated 55 bird species were nesting there, was The occurrence of the European fire-bellied toad in Josefov The birth and the first months of life of the appeared in the breeding facilities (the artificial den). enclosure, mother and cub in one part and father in flooding, birds – especially those dependent on the the discovery of three couples of northern lapwing Meadows was confirmed in 2016. Kamchatka brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) It was clear that Kamchatka had given birth, had the other. After returning Kamchatka and her son to water, but also other species – return to what had (Vanellus vanellus). The bird park is one of the few cub, born on January 29th this year, were different begun to defend the cubs, and had expelled the male the main enclosure, Jelizar remained in the back for become dry plains.