Nordens Ark / Норденс Арк
Nordens Ark
Hunnebostrand, Sweden / Ханнебостранд, Швеция
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I learned in this site that Melissa had another name at first. I searched “Charybdis” and found the images of the terrible monster 
Maybe she was as brutal as Polyphemus as a kitten 
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I used to watch the livestream of the kittens earlier in the year – it was thrilling! If only we could sponsor livestreams for more zoos…
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Yep, all kittens from that litter were named after deities from Greek mythology originally, but some of them changed their names when they came to other zoos 
We find it super cool that some zoos are taking naming seriously and creative and name kittens in a litter by some pattern or … idea. We have a ”cheese” litter, a lot of ”mountain’ litters and a ”mythology’ litter for instance Me and Vika are really enjoy finding these patterns.
Actually this particular Greek pattern helped us a lot because we noticed that Calypso and Polly (Polyphemus) look alike and have similar names and we started to dig into it and found that they are sisters
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Nordens Ark’s livestream was a revolutionary thing IMO! I’ve never seen THIS level of courage and openness from a zoo! Really respect that!
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And the way they did it was amazing – they had so many cameras, and with the night vision cameras you could really see everything! I was very impressed, it must have been so difficult to keep those streams running and look after all the animals simultaneously.
I hope the manul stream will return some time (but of course all their other animal streams are interesting!).
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Yea, I really hope that they will continue to run streamings like that. They weren’t super popular though but for real fans they meant a lot!
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I loved the livestream. I understand why they stopped it, but I really do wish that we could see the minuls again. And all grown up now!
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Yea, we too! We’re thinking about visiting Nordens Ark this winter
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Love love love Nordens Ark kittens, so adult and beautiful now, and mother Loesje of course too🤗 They all are very heroic!
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Oh no! I see from your Instagram @roma that Loesje passed away? https://www.instagram.com/p/DCTbcqrNJzI/
This is such sad news! My condolences to all the staff there, they’ve worked incredibly hard and this must be a very tough time for them. 
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Yes… I saw this news in TG channel Manulization and can’t believe… My love, my Valkyrie… can’t stop crying…
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These years are of really bitterness to Nordens Ark’s manuls. We lost many of them: Bjorna, Borsika, Calypso, Thomas, and now Loesje. 
May Polly, Melissa and their nieces and nephews BE ALWAYS WELL.
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Yea, it’s a sad news 
This year was full of losses. I hope next year will be a year of kittens!
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I posted this photo yesterday to the Budapest Zoo thread because I thought the manul mother was Borsika, but master_tailstepper told me that it was Micha. So I’m thinking of posting this to her profile page. It’s a screenshot of Animal Planet’s documentary, so should the credit be Animal Planet?
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And minuls born last year, Happy Birthday 
As far as I know, they don’t have names yet…
Anyway, I hope the two girls will stay healthy and live long!
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I can’t believe it’s been a whole year! The Nordens Ark stream was a big part of my life while it was running. I’d love to go and visit Loesje’s daughters one day – I feel very invested in their health and happiness!
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Yes, especially after so many losses last year, wishing these sweet baby girls all happiness and health on their first birthday, and hoping for many, many more birthdays for them. 
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I posted the photo on Micha’s profile page, but the date of the original video is unknown. So I selected June 15, 2015. It’s a month after Polly, Calypso, Melissa, And Aiolos were born. If this minul is one of them, it would have been around the date that he or she starts going out of the den 
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Thank you!!!
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