Lions reached the place in the night from Saturday to Sunday, approx. Hrs. 3 Unloading began early in the morning.
– We have been in the garden since 6 am, in time. 7 we began to gather and the chair. 7.30 we started unloading – says the director of the garden. – I am full of admiration for my staff, everyone was on their feet and ready for action.
unloaded lions accompanied by the Mayor of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz.
Journey to the “głodniaka”
Lions came in four independent transport cages.
– First, the pavilion was released male – says Targowski. – Then three females. For now staying separately. After four days of traveling lions are obviously tired, frightened. Females cuddle up to each other and sleep in the corner of the pavilion. The male put his paws in front of him, his head on his paws and also resting.
Travel, however, did not go so completely painless. – One of the females wiped a little aside, we noticed also that the female is a little matted forehead. Animals examined but our doctor and turned out to be harmless, useless is no interference – says Targowski.
Pets now rest and get used to the new place of residence. The evening will be fed. The whole journey towards Gdansk took place “on głodniaka.”
Targowski: – They’ll get a piece of meat, although I doubt if anything will eat. Because passed but great stress. Although who knows, it’s their fourth day without food. They could not eat on the go – end up so that kąpałyby himself in his own vomit. I think that in the evening or at night lions will walk through the pavilion, smell it mean slowly start to tame.
The male named Arco began his journey on Thursday. Gdansk goes from Portugal, the Lisbon Zoo. Arco has less than four years. Three females came from the Parc des Félins – predatory cats breeding center near Paris. Females are much younger, born in 2013.
– One of them is about half a year older and it shows – says Targowski. – It’s bigger more confident and aggressive, fangs already shown us. And the younger lionesses are beautiful, sweet until one is tempted to hug them. The male is docile.
Pavilion as the tip
Lions arrived to the Tri-City is a breed Angolan. – In Africa there 5-6 subspecies of lions – says Michał Targowski, director of the zoo in Oliwa. – From the outside, are no different: the lion as a lion, everyone knows how it looks. For us, however, from the perspective of the culture is important to know that we have a clean race.
The Pavilion, which will live lions, like a cave, where rock ledges are lions. In addition, the room was made pool filled with sand, are also branches of trees. Predators glass separates from the audience – a lion from the visitors is just a few inches of glass.
Lions for the first time will be presented to the public next Saturday, October 11. Then the zoo held an open day will be. Animals, however, still be present in the pavilion.
– It is too early to let them out – says Michał Targowski. – Therefore, please bear with us, because if you come on Saturday to the garden a few thousand people it may be that not all see the lions. To the pavilion can enter at the same time approx. 50 people.
In the future, predators get to use the 1.5 ha catwalk. Before we will go there, it will take time. First, they must be tamed. At the moment lions reside separately.
– You will want to join them as soon as possible – says the director. – Fortunately, the lion is a species of cat herding. However, if you are problems, then the male will have to remain separate from females. Then we waited for any of the females will be the first oestrus and then linking is conflict-free.
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