Animal-rarities arrived to Debrecen Zoo and Amusement Park this week.With the newly arrived specimens, Debrecen Zoo and Amusement Park’s collection has grown to 162 species.
One of the gems of the newest additons to the collection is the Palawan Bengal Cats. Debrecen Zoo and Amusement Park is joining forces with Tierpark Berlin, Prague Zoo and ZOO Plzeň to establish a breeding program that will build up a healthy population of Palawan Bengal Cats across European zoos. Members of this captive-bred population can eventually be reintroduced on Palawan, to help the wild population recover.
The European population consists of 13 specimen. Debrecen Zoo is currently one of only four zoos – apart from the Philippines – in the world to house Palawan Bengal Cats and the only Hungarian Zoo – after a long time – to be a founder of any European Species Survival Breeding Programme.
Besides the cats, dwarf forest buffalos have arrived from Berlin. Moreover kookaburras and straw-necked ibises (the only ones in Hungary) are added to the Australian birds population. Meanwhile Brno Zoo contributed with a hand-reared blue-and-yellow macaw.
Source and photos: Debrecen Zoo and Amusement Park
