Dr. Guido Kirsten

The young wanderu, born in October last year, is always a nice model for phoptgraphers.

After the Rhein-Main-Donau canal was completed this species spread out in the Rhine river system widely.

In the basement of the newly build center for large predators you can spot a few bush babies. They are living together with aardvarks and other creatures of the night in a large enclosure. I was lucky to get so close that I could take this photo.

Helmet Causuaries are seen as the last dinosaurs on Earth.

In the Eagle Valley, a large area dedicated to avid predators, I took this portrait of a King Vulture.

The Keukenhof parc offers the world largest show of spring flowers worldwide.

When entering Jungola you are in a great tropical hall where a lot of animals are living. Among them is the rainbow lorikeet.

In the Flying Bird Show there are not only hawks, eagles and owls but also some parrots.

The zoo is located in an forst area with a lot of old trees. Unsurprinsingly you can spot some wild squirrels.

There area couple of different color forms of Labeotropheus known. The variant of that cichlid from Lake Malawi in Africa that is kept in the Hippodrom is probably the most pleasing one.

Amphiprion akallopisos is a nicely colored relative of the famous Nemo.

Nile Crocodile in the Cologne Hippodrom