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A spectacular aviary has recently opened for visitors in the Wuppertal Zoo: Aralandia. Curator Dr. Dominik Fischer takes us into this walk-in installation.
We were in the facility a few months ago before it opened.
» click here for the video: • Grüner Zoo Wuppertal: ...
The hyacinth macaws are very present in the video - and, of course, also on the installation. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case in nature, because the species is classified as VU by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) - so, it is threatened. It is therefore important that there is a functioning breed of this species in human care. This is needed to help the wild populations.
But there are other parrots in Aralandia: the sun parakeets. These are flocking birds, but they are also threatened - even more so than the hyacinth macaws because they are listed as EN. But they also provide an important color accent in the installation. You can also see the near-threatened Chilean flamingos and, with a little luck, a pudu - these species are also threatened.
In the video, Dr. Dominik Fischer familiarizes us with some of the features of the installation and also explains its central purpose and its great uniqueness: it is a wedding aviary or a kind of real-life dating platform for hyacinth macaws, whose breeding is should be optimized by this aviary. This is important for the species to survive.
But Aralandia is not only an aviary, which is important for the conservation of species, it also enables a special experience of these animals, as it is accessible to visitors. Of course, care is taken to ensure that human-animal interaction always takes place with a respectful distance. For the visitors, however, it is wonderful to be part of this dating, so to speak.
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