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Happy zoo news: Hellabrunn Zoo is getting some animal species back

2021-08-20T08:51:03.602Z


Hellabrunn Zoo is planning a new warm house that will soon accommodate endangered species. This also includes pygmy hippos that were at home on the site some time ago.


Hellabrunn Zoo is planning a new warm house that will soon accommodate endangered species.

This also includes pygmy hippos that were at home on the site some time ago.

Munich - In Hellabrunn pygmy hippos should move in again.

For them and other endangered animal species, a new building will be built in the next few years - instead of the bat grotto, which has been closed due to structural problems, where an information board already indicates the project.

A so-called warm house is planned, which will also offer the tropical residents optimal conditions in winter.

In addition to the new lion enclosure that is currently under construction, it will be another highlight of the future “Africa” section of the park, which will stretch south from the giraffe house along the Isar.

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Pygmy hippos are coming back to Hellabrunn: Geozoo principle is to be taken up again

As reported, the master plan of the Munich * zoo provides for the animals to be presented again grouped according to their natural habitats.

Hellabrunn was the first zoo in the world to introduce this geozoo principle, but it had been watered down over time.

From 1931 to the 1990s, pygmy hippos lived in Hellabrunn - in the elephant house next to the big hippos Rosa and Gurbe.

But the attitude there was no longer in keeping with the times.

The animals were given up.

To this day, Rosa and Gurbe live in a reservation in Brazil, where they enjoy excellent health despite their old age.

The new building is now intended to create similarly optimal conditions for the 160 to 270 kilogram pygmy hippopotamuses, which are highly endangered in the wild.

(Peter T. Schmidt) * tz.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

Source: merkur

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