A question about the Novosibirsk Zoo

No.

What is more, the zoo conceals the names of many of its animals. The manul community does not know the names of some of the manuls in Novosibirsk.

Great question. I wanted to ask the same thing: were all the names—Snezhinka, Seryi, and so on—given by the Novosibirsk Zoo, or are they popular names?

dixi, If the name is unofficial and invented, for example, by Manulomaniacs, then on the website such a name is marked with an asterisk * (for example, like Gray*

).

If there is no asterisk, it means the name is official 🤓

Vika Malyshkoverified_filled, Thank you! And what is his official name? And how do you find out their official names in the first place? For example, that Anya is Anya. Do you ask the zoo?

dixi, We most often learn the names of “historical” manuls from studbooks or clarify them directly with zoos. As a rule, we ask the Novosibirsk Zoo for the names of contemporary Novosibirsk manuls, but they are rather sensitive about this subject. Manuls are challenging animals from a veterinary standpoint, with a fairly high mortality rate, and a public name places additional responsibility on zoos in the eyes of animal lovers—based on our personal observations, not all zoos can/want to/know how to (or even have the resources to) handle this. That is why everything related to this topic requires time, patience, effort, and great delicacy 🤗