Soon, the visitors of the Regional Landscape Park will be able to meet these nice representatives of the family Herpestidae, which arrived from the zoos of the Czech town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem and the city of Plzeň.
Feldman Ecopark’s deputy director of zootechnics Valeriia Ivashchenko told that the animals arrived within the exchange programme. “We’ve just started to cooperate with our Czech counterparts within the European Endangered Species Programme. Two females of mongooses arrived from Plzeň, and a couple – a male and a female – arrived from Dvůr Králové. They are currently in quarantine, but soon, we hope to let them into the enclosure for them to be able to delight our visitors. As the slender mongooses live in groups, they will live in Ecopark together as well,” Valeriia Ivashchenko tells.
Moreover, Valeriia Ivashchenko informed that 13 new arrivals in Feldman Ecopark is expected this month from Latvia and Israel, including the ring-tailed lemur, rock cavy and several species of birds.
Slender mongooses inhabit the Central and Eastern Africa preferring savannahs and open forests. The average body length of these animals is 30-45cm with the tail of up to 30cm. An adult animal weighs up to 2kg. The distinctive feature is a pattern of a dozen of cross stripes on the back. These mongooses are diurnal. They eat insects, small snakes and small reptiles, bird eggs and wild fruits. In captivity, mongooses are sociable with each other and with people.
It should be reminded, that a lynx male have recently appeared in Feldman Ecopark. It was brought from Riga Zoo within the animal exchange programme.
