South Bohemian Zoological Gardens of Hluboká nad Vltavou ( cs, Jihočeská zoologická zahrada Hluboká nad Vltavou), known as Ohrada Zoo ( cs, Zoo Hluboká) is a zoo in the town of

Hluboká nad Vltavou Hluboká nad Vltavou (; until 1885 ''Podhrad'', german: Frauenberg) is a town in České Budějovice District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,400 inhabitants. The town is known for the Hluboká Castle. Administra ...

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, which opened in 1939. The zoo is specialized in animals from the European

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zoogeographical region, and the Czech Republic.

Creation of the Czechoslovakian Wolfdog

Karel Hartl's lecture, "Results of crossing wolves with dogs", received a lot of attention at the

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held in June 1965 in

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and in

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at the annual meeting of the

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(FCI) and the International Cynologic Congress. The following year Hartl compiled a draft standard of a new dog breed. Mating a wolf, ''Brita'', with a German Shepherd, ''Kurt'', then created the basis of a second line. A third line was made by joining the wolf ''Arga'' with the female dog ''Asta'' from the

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(SNB). In 1977, a third-generation hybrid female named ''Xela'' of the

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s was covered by the wolf ''Sarika''; he also mated with the female ''Urta'' of the border guards. The last addition of wolf blood took place in 1983. The wolf ''Lejdy'' of Ohrada Zoo gave birth to last line of the new breed, the father of the puppies being the German Shepherd ''Bojar von Shottenhof''. Since that time, breeding has been carried out only in closed populations and the hybrids are known as

Czechoslovakian wolfdog The Czechoslovakian Wolfdog ( cz, Československý vlčák, sk, Československý vlčiak, german: Tschechoslowakischer Wolfhund) is a wolf-dog breed that began as an experiment conducted in Czechoslovakia in 1955. After initially breeding ...

Animals at the zoo

Orel skalní (Aquila chrysaetos).jpg Kamzík horský (Rupicapra rupicapra).jpg Jeřáb panenský (Anthropoides virgo).jpg Medvěd plavý (Ursus arctos isabellinus).jpg Korsak (Vulpes corsac).jpg Sup mrchožravý (Neophron percnopterus).jpg Rosomák sibiřský (Gulo gulo).jpg Tygr ussurijský (Panthera tigris altaica).jpg Sysel obecný (Spermophilus citellus).jpg Vydra zooohrada.JPG Vzdel stredisko zooohrada.jpg Klokan rudokrky zooohrada.JPG Kockodan husarsky zooohrada.JPG Kane harrisova zoooohrada.JPG Stika zooohrada.jpg Stuliky zooohrada.JPG Cap na louce zooohrada.JPG Nova expozice 2009 zooohrada.jpg Krajta zelena.JPG Hluboka view zooohrada.jpg

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* Zoos established in 1939 Zoos in the Czech Republic České Budějovice District 1939 establishments in Czechoslovakia 20th-century architecture in the Czech Republic {{Zoo-stub