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Recently, on November 17, Budapest celebrated its birthday, and on this occasion several of our colleagues at the Zoo received recognition from our maintainer, the Budapest City Council: Mónika Mikó and Attila Márton Budai were named Heroes of Budapest, while Zoltán Hanga was honored with the “For Budapest” award.
13 November is the Day of the Hungarian Language. On this occasion, we have prepared a short overview of how various exotic animal species—most of which can also be seen in our Zoo—received Hungarian names, even though they originally had none. We also explain why this topic is important for our Zoo.
12 November is Jonah’s Day, which is special for us, as this was the name of our first hippopotamus, who lived in our Zoo between 1893 and 1917. Jonah was already legendary during his lifetime, and for a long time his name was the first that came to people’s minds when they thought of a hippopotamus (until the 1975 animated film Hugo the Hippopotamus).
November 8 is World Radiology Day. On this date in 1895, during his experiments at the University of Würzburg, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen first observed the mysterious X-rays, which were later named after him. The possibility of medical use was recognised very quickly: within the first few weeks of his experiments, Röntgen already produced an X-ray image of his wife Anna Bertha’s right hand.
The vulture aviary, located on the northwest side of the zoo’s Small Rock area, is home to several bird species, but the griffon vultures are the largest among them. Visitors are allowed to enter the aviary, which gives them a close-to-nature experience and, at the same time, helps people get familiar with and appreciate the vultures themselves.
The newest residents of the Palm House are the golden-handed tamarins. Our zoo has worked with this species before, but in recent years we did not have them. The recently arrived animals now share their enclosure with nocturnal monkeys, which makes sense since both species are native to South America.
Recently, on November 17, Budapest celebrated its birthday, and on this occasion several of our colleagues at the Zoo received recognition from our maintainer, the Budapest City Council: Mónika Mikó and Attila Márton Budai were named Heroes of Budapest, while Zoltán Hanga was honored with the “For Budapest” award.
13 November is the Day of the Hungarian Language. On this occasion, we have prepared a short overview of how various exotic animal species—most of which can also be seen in our Zoo—received Hungarian names, even though they originally had none. We also explain why this topic is important for our Zoo.
12 November is Jonah’s Day, which is special for us, as this was the name of our first hippopotamus, who lived in our Zoo between 1893 and 1917. Jonah was already legendary during his lifetime, and for a long time his name was the first that came to people’s minds when they thought of a hippopotamus (until the 1975 animated film Hugo the Hippopotamus).
November 8 is World Radiology Day. On this date in 1895, during his experiments at the University of Würzburg, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen first observed the mysterious X-rays, which were later named after him. The possibility of medical use was recognised very quickly: within the first few weeks of his experiments, Röntgen already produced an X-ray image of his wife Anna Bertha’s right hand.
The vulture aviary, located on the northwest side of the zoo’s Small Rock area, is home to several bird species, but the griffon vultures are the largest among them. Visitors are allowed to enter the aviary, which gives them a close-to-nature experience and, at the same time, helps people get familiar with and appreciate the vultures themselves.
The newest residents of the Palm House are the golden-handed tamarins. Our zoo has worked with this species before, but in recent years we did not have them. The recently arrived animals now share their enclosure with nocturnal monkeys, which makes sense since both species are native to South America.
