New Attractions in the Budapest Zoo

A one year old red panda arrived from Germany to the Budapest Zoo and the institution's Butterfly garden , delayed by the pandemic, could finally open for this year.

In a statement sent to the Hungarian news agency MTI, zoo officials say Bendegúz, a one-year-old male red panda arrived to accompany Aurora, a nearly ten-year-old female living in Budapest for many years. In the species, males become sexually mature around the age of one and a half years, so professionals trust in future reproduction.

It has also been reported that many pets have been added in recent times: endangered Asian wild dogs, rosy flamingos, endangered northern bald ibis, tapirs, Bactrian camels, prairie dogs, black swans and many other animals. New species have also arrived, such as the Parma kangaroo (believed for a long time to be extinct) or the golden-haired takin, whose cultural-historical curiosity is that the golden wool that appears in Greek mythological stories was originally likely to be traced back to this animal.

According to the institution, the 240-square-meter Butterfly Garden has also been opened, where more than four hundred specimens of 19 tropical butterfly species can be seen in its 1,200-cubic-meter airspace, and visitors can walk among butterflies.