Zoo news

After several weeks of progressive and protected contact under the close supervision of the keepers, our elephant bull Gandhi has finally been introduced to our female herd.

Our female cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) has recently given birth to twins. This is the first birth for our pair created one year ago. The babies are now 3-weeks old and are doing very well.

One of our two females De Brazza’s monkeys (Cercopithecus neglectus) recently gave birth to a baby. The 1-month-old newborn is doing well and has started to eat solid food, though it is still suckling. Among cercopithecidae species, weaning is usually completed around one-year-old. The baby hasn’t been named yet as its sex hasn’t been confirmed with certainty by the keepers.

We’ve been waiting for him for so long and he has finally arrived: Gandhi, a 12-year-old Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) has now become our new breeding male. What a moment of intense emotion when he came out of his transport crate! He takes over from our late Shinto who died in March 2015 at the age of 46.