ZOO BRNO VIRTUAL TOUR - tigers

Hello

As I promised you ZOO Brno virtual tour, I bringing you the second part!  
And today we are visiting home of Satu, wonderful Sumatran tiger

Previous part of ZOO Brno virtual tour: introduction (look at: woxys.deviantart.com/journal/2…)





Satu (born in Dublin) is female Sumatran tiger with amazing face marking and very expressive eyes. She used to share her home with male called Dick, but he broke his leg (probably while trying to mate with Satu) and finally died after surgery. His brother Kampar came to ZOO then, but last year he died of cancer
Zoo still keeps his sperm and it wants to try artificial insemination to make Satu pregnant.
Let’s hope ZOO will be succesful and Satu will be amazing mother





But let’s speak about the exhibit Satu inhabits.
All the complex is called ,,the Tiger’s rocks“ and it was built in 2000. It is home for two species – for Sumatran tigers and for Sri Lanca leopards.





We enter the corridor - visitors watch Sumatran tigers through glass walls
,,Roofed corridor“ stylized as some exotic village protects us from snow, winter and rain, so we can watch tigers while sitting on benches.



There are many nicely drawn info boards on the wooden walls – they are not only about Sumatran tigers, but also about big cats in general and about some differences between northern and southern species












Ok, no more ,,joke attempts“ now I will show you home of Satu please, do not forget that those photos were taken in winter, when the sky was cloudy and the land was covered with snow! That’s why those photos look a bit sad. During all the year, this exhibit is very wonderful, full of grass, green trees, clear water and so






















But of course, tigers need also some warm and dry space where they sleep and where they spend a lot of time
So second part of our excursion brings us to the indoor exhibit, which is, of course, connected with the outside one.





Inside home of Satu is quite big – it is made of concrete, but I think it does not matter, because outside exhibit is open and when tigers want nature, they can go outside
This enclosure is in reality bigger than it looks in pictures.