Herpetology at the Leipzig Zoo - snakeTAG
Herpetology at the Leipzig Zoo - snakeTAG
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The Herptile Collection <strong>at</strong><br />
<strong>Leipzig</strong> <strong>Zoo</strong>, Germany<br />
Fabian Schmidt, <strong>Zoo</strong> <strong>Leipzig</strong>
New York Times<br />
listed <strong>Leipzig</strong><br />
Rank 10 of <strong>the</strong><br />
most interesting<br />
destin<strong>at</strong>ions 2010
Founded in 1878
Numbers and facts<br />
- 26 hectares<br />
- 871 species (1.1.2009)<br />
- ~ 1,7 Mio visitors (1997: ~ 700´000)<br />
- ~ 130 employees
Director: Dr. Jörg Junhold, since 1997,<br />
President elect WAZA
Tradition: Carnivores
Recent developments<br />
Lion enclosure Makasi Simba, 2001
Recent developments<br />
Ape facility Pongoland, 2001
Recent developments<br />
African Savannah Kiwara, 2004
Recent developments<br />
Elephant Temple Ganesha Mandir, 2006
First reptiles:<br />
1877 Allig<strong>at</strong>or mississippiensis
First breeding:<br />
1893 Python molurus
Aquarium, 1910
Built by Johannes Gebbing, <strong>Zoo</strong> Director<br />
1910-1934
Cur<strong>at</strong>ors:<br />
1919-1934: Karl Max Schneider -> Director <strong>Zoo</strong> <strong>Leipzig</strong><br />
1934-1955: Heinrich D<strong>at</strong>he -> Director Tierpark Berlin<br />
1955-1958: Lothar Dittrich -> Director <strong>Zoo</strong> Hannover<br />
1958-1963: Wolfgang Puschmann -> Dir. <strong>Zoo</strong> Magdeburg<br />
1963-1973: Peter Müller -> Director <strong>Zoo</strong> <strong>Leipzig</strong><br />
1973-2006: Wolf-Eberhard Engelmann<br />
2006- : Fabian Schmidt
Reptile Wing as Greenhouse, 1913
Reptile House, renov<strong>at</strong>ed 1996
Central Crocodylian Pond
Mississippi Allig<strong>at</strong>ors, 1996
African Dwarf Crocodiles, 1992
Osteolaemus tetraspis
North American Iguanids
Chuckwalla, Sauromalus obesus
Baja blue rock lizard, Petrosaurus thalassinus
Gre<strong>at</strong> Plains Toad, Bufo cogn<strong>at</strong>us
Giant snakes
Eunectes notaeus and Ameiva chaitzami<br />
Yellow anaconda and Chaitzam‘s Ameiva
Tortoises, G. pardalis, radi<strong>at</strong>a, sulc<strong>at</strong>a
Geochelone radi<strong>at</strong>a
St<strong>at</strong>istical development<br />
90<br />
80<br />
70<br />
60<br />
250 specimens<br />
in 73 species<br />
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009<br />
270<br />
250<br />
230<br />
210<br />
190<br />
170<br />
150<br />
species<br />
specimens
Annam leaf turtle, Mauremys annamensis
McCord‘s snake-necked turtle,<br />
Chelodina mccordi
Pancake tortoise, Malacochersus tornieri
… and on desk of <strong>the</strong> cur<strong>at</strong>or:<br />
Namaqua speckled padloper,<br />
Homopus sign<strong>at</strong>us sign<strong>at</strong>us
Frilled lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingii
Armadillo girdle-tailed lizard,<br />
Cordylus c<strong>at</strong>aphractus
Caiman lizard, Dracaena guianensis
Chinese crocodile lizard,<br />
Shinisaurus crocodilurus
Peach-thro<strong>at</strong>ed monitor,<br />
Varanus jobiensis, bred in 2001
Red-tailed r<strong>at</strong>snake, Gonyosoma oxycephala
Tiger r<strong>at</strong>snake, Spilotes pull<strong>at</strong>us
Mangrove snake, Boiga dendrophila
Copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix
Mexican lance-headed r<strong>at</strong>tlesnake,<br />
Crotalus polystictus
Ringhals cobra, Hemach<strong>at</strong>us haemach<strong>at</strong>us
Red spitting cobra, Naja pallida, h<strong>at</strong>ched on<br />
14 August 1979 <strong>at</strong> Bronx <strong>Zoo</strong>, New York
Smooth-sided toad, Bufo gutt<strong>at</strong>us
Tonkin bug-eyed frog,<br />
Theloderma corticale
Blue poison dart frog,<br />
Dendrob<strong>at</strong>es azureus
Conserv<strong>at</strong>ion Project since 2009<br />
Chile
Darwin frog, Rhinoderma darwinii
In cooper<strong>at</strong>ion with University of Concepcion
Research & Breeding Centre
23 h<strong>at</strong>chlings in 2009
Future development<br />
Gondwanaland, Tropical<br />
World of Experience
Old industrial hall -> 150 kg dynamite
1,6 hectares
34 Meters high, costs ~ 60 Mio Euro
Komodo dragon, Varanus komodoensis
Opening by 2011
Asian brown tortoise,<br />
Manouria emys emys
Green iguana, Iguana iguana
Yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle,<br />
Podocnemis unifilis
Australian snake-necked turtle,<br />
Chelodina longicollis
Sunda gharial,<br />
Tomistoma schlegelii
Malaysian giant pond turtle,<br />
Orlitia borneensis
Yellow-headed temple turtle,<br />
Hieremys annandalii
Spotted pond turtle,<br />
Geoclemys hamiltonii
Malaysian painted river terrapin,<br />
B<strong>at</strong>agur (Callagur) borneoensis -> Help?
Gondwanaland backstage: Reptile facility<br />
behind <strong>the</strong> scenes, 2010
Future development<br />
Rosy Reptile Times <strong>at</strong> <strong>Leipzig</strong>?
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