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The Magazine for Friends of the Brno Zoo No the magazine for friends of the Brno Zoo No. 1 january 2018 SRI LANKAN LEOPARD L Content 04 Event 14 The World’s Largest Pigeons Lions and Leopards Have Youngsters Pied Imperial Pigeons the magazin for friends of the Brno Zoo january 2018 No. 1/18, volume XX publisher four times per year MK ČR E 17723 Editor: Brno Zoo and Environmental Education 06 Leopards in Brno Zoo 16 Ecological Education Centre Centre, semi-budgetary organization A Peek into the History “Nature in Winter” with a Focus on Birds U Zoologické zahrady 46, 635 00 Brno, Czech Republic IČ: 00101451 tel.: +420 546 432 311 fax: +420 546 210 000 e-mail: [email protected] Publisher: Moravian Museum Zelný trh 6, 659 37 Brno Czech Republic 08 Interview 17 Ecological Education Centre IČO: 00094862 Bare Feet in the Park Our Fraternisig Leopards Editor’s office addres Zoo Brno a stanice zájmových činností, p. o. redakce Zooreportu U Zoologické zahrady 46, 635 00 Brno, Czech Republic tel.: +420 546 432 370 fax: +420 546 210 000 e-mail: [email protected] Editorial board: Ing. et Mgr. Lenka Blažejovská, Mgr. Jana 11 A Success Also for Small Cats 18 Kura Kura Project Galová (children’s supplement), Bc. Jana Margayess Gave Bith a Second Time This year, the first two saved sea turtles Hadová, MVDr. Martin Hovorka, Ph.D. (chairman of editorial board), doc. MVDr. Jiří Klimeš, CSc., RNDr. Bohumil Král, CSc. (specialist reader), Ing. Miroslava Piškulová, Bc. Eduard Stuchlík (editor manager), doc. Ing. Josef Suchomel, Ph.D., Mgr. Michal Vaňáč. Emendation: Rosalind Miranda Distribution: 400 pcs in the English version 12 Life on the Interface 19 Future 1,600 pcs in the Czech version Four-Eyed Fish Have Only Two Eyes! Architecture Students Design Zoo Pavilions The author of non-attributed texts and photos is: Bc. Eduard Stuchlík First page: Sri Lankan Leopard Photo by Eduard Stuchlík UNSALEABLE 2 www.facebook.com/ZooBrno Editorial L EDITORIAL Dear Readers, We are dedicating this issue of ZooReport to Sri Lankan leopards. The birth of leopard twins last year is an important milestone for our zoo because we last bred this subspecies in 2000. Even elsewhere, Sri Lankan leopards are not often bred, as is shown by the fact that only three other zoos that keep Sri Lankan leop- ards and are also part of the Euro- pean Rescue Program bred leopard cubs in 2017. In the following pages, we want to share with you the chal- lenges and complications associated with the breeding this beautiful big cat. Another species of big cat, the Katanga lioness, has been nursing cubs who were born at the end of last year in our zoo. The union of this pair of lions went smoothly. The male and female, each brought in from a different zoo, met at our new lion exhibition last summer, and began to mate almost immediately. Our other successful breeding story, which has also been covered in this issue, concerns a margay, which is a small feline. Our aquatic family has been enriched by a new species, largescale four-eyed Sri Lankan leopardess with her cub. fish. Of course, they have only two eyes, but their visual organ, which has evolved weekends as a travel club, letting its the Technical University. An exhibition to adapt to life in the interface between young members visit eco-farms or informing zoo visitors about this collab- marine and terrestrial environments, is other centres of ecological interest, and oration was held at five zoo venues be- so unique that it deserves a special men- has them explore natural and cultural tween December 2017 and February tion and a detailed description. sites on trips in and near town. 2018. For fourteen years, students of ar- Our collection of birds is also grow- The Kura Kura rescue and rehabilita- chitecture, as part of their bachelor and ing thanks to new additions. Last year, tion station, which Zoo Brno estab- diploma theses, have been creating de- for example, we imported pied imperial lished last year in Indonesia, reports its signs for our zoological pavilions. In fact, pigeons, and Scheepmaker’s crowned first rescue of sea turtles this year – an because of the high number of students pigeons, which are amongst the largest unmissable account in this year’s first interested in this specialization, the pigeons in the world. issue of ZooReport. building of zoo edifices has officially be- Birds are also featured in a contribu- For quite some time now, we have been come one of the fields of study at the fac- tion from the Environmental Education working in close cooperation with Brno’s ulty. On the last page of this issue, we talk Centre “Hlídka,” whose lecturers organ- universities. University students have or- about the exhibition of student proposals, ized an educational event on the winter ganised interest clubs in the zoo or have and about our planned manatee pavilion. feeding of wild birds. The rich pro- worked on their bachelor or diploma the- gramme content of the Hlídka centre ses here. However, not many people Bc. Eduard Stuchlík, also included the creation of another in- know about our longstanding coopera- Chief Editor of ZooReport terest club, which operates only during tion with the Faculty of Architecture at www.zoobrno.cz ZooReport 3 L Event Sri Lankan leopardess with her cubs. 2013 as young and sexually immature individuals, we did not have a stable Lions and Leopards and compatible couple. Daan was born on 19 September 2011 at Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem, Netherlands, and was brought to Brno on 25 February 2013. Have Youngsters Nayana arrived five days before Daan from Bratislava Zoo, where she was The birth of two young Sri Lankan leopards (Panthera pardus kotyia) at born on 24 June 2011. Typically, the Brno Zoo on 21 November 2017 crowned an important successful breeding. first mating of leopards can be unsuc- We are also very happy that our other big cats, the Katanga lions (Panthera cessful for many reasons: the male leo bleyenberghi), gave birth to twins on 30 December 2017. The last leop- might not be ready to mate, the female ard to be born in Brno Zoo was in 2000, while the last lion was born in might not be ready to conceive, or the 1993. first oestrus may be weak so that the breeders miscalculate the optimum The six-year-old leopardess Nayana 14 February, when we opened the exit date of mating. It is therefore quite nat- gave birth for the first time, and she im- connecting their quarters with the en- ural for viable cubs to be born only mediately started caring for her twins. closure for a few hours. Visitors were after four years of cohabitation. During their vaccination against com- also able to see the father of the cubs, Apart from Brno Zoo, only three mon leopard diseases on 5 January, we who was housed in the same building other institutions that breed Sri Lankan found out that there is one cub of each as the female but in another enclosure, leopards within the European Rescue sex. The male weighed 2.18 kg, and the without access to his offspring. The Program reported the birth of cubs of female just slightly less (2.1 kg). During cubs quickly learned to climb the tree this subspecies in 2017. For the pro- vaccination, the twins also received vi- trunks there, but a cold wave inter- gramme itself, which covers 69 ani- tamins and preparations against rupted their outings at the end of Feb- mals, it was important to include worms, and a chip was embedded in ruary. Nayana and Daan among the individ- each of them. Two weeks later, they During the past 17 years, nine Sri uals who are suitable for reproduction. were revaccinated. Lankan leopards have been kept at The contribution of this pair has also Visitors were allowed to see the leop- Brno Zoo. However, until Nayana and been acknowledged by the coordinator ardess and her cubs for the first time on her mate, Daan, came to our zoo in of the rescue programme. 4 www.facebook.com/ZooBrno Event L weighed somewhat less than 7 kg, and the female was slightly lighter. Kivu probably gave birth a little later than normal, because the cubs were able to see right after being born, and they were larger than is usual at birth. She cared well for her offspring as soon as they were born, even though she was a first-time mother, just like our leop- ardess. Immediately after vaccination, the lioness led her cubs to the bars be- hind which Lolek was waiting, to show him that nothing bad had hap- pened to his offspring. But he will have to wait for any direct contact with the cubs. Although we connected the quarters of the lions on 21 Febru- ary, the careful mother was still on guard, and drove the curious father back to his own room. However, we think that in March, she will probably allow him to establish contact with the young ones, and the parents and their offspring will start walking together to the weaning yard. During spring visits Young Katanga lions. to the zoo, visitors will be able to see the entire family in their large enclo- Sri Lankan leopards live in the wild natural exposition, suitably large. Soon sure. only in Sri Lanka, where they are at the after being put together, the couple was top of the food pyramid. According to observed to be mating. Ing. Dora Gremlicová, estimates by the IUCN, there are only Kivu’s cubs are also one of each sex, Curator of Mammalian Breeding between 750 and 900 leopards on the as determined during their vaccina- island.
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