Video: Aurele's birth and first steps
And now, exclusively for you, here is the video of Aurele’s birth and first steps.
Zoo news
Birth of a giraffe calf
Since last Thursday, our small herd of Rothschild’s giraffes (Giraffa Camelopardalis rothschildi) has a new member: Aurele, 58kg and first calf of 6-year-old mum Pauline, is doing well. This is the twenty-fifth giraffe birth at La Palmyre Zoo.
La Palmyre Zoo intensifies its support to cheetah conservation in the wild
A hundred years ago, there were over 100,000 cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) across Africa (except for the Congo Basin) and Asia, from the Arabian Peninsula to eastern India. Today, just over 7,000 individuals remain in only 23% of their original range.
Contact with the group has started for our blue-eyed lemur youngster
The young blue-eyed lemur female (Eulemur flavifrons) born in April is progressively put in contact with the rest of her group.