Vítězslav Krejčí posted this fancy video of winter ZOO to the Facebook page of Brno Now:

Zoo is opened every day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and most of the animals is having quite a good time in the snow, so be sure to visit the garden before spring comes.

Help to build a new home for your favorite runaway monkey

Poster of Heiko (source: www.zoobrno.cz)

Gelada baboon male Heiko has escaped the garden for two times and the management of the ZOO is trying to collect money for building a better run, where Heiko would not feel so urgent need of running away.

If you want to help Heiko, send a short text message “HEIKO” to number 902 77 40 before January 31 (I think you need a Czech SIM-card to do this). It will cost you CZK 40 (€1.50) and you will receive a message that will serve as a ticket to the grand opening of Heiko’s new palace.

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A male gelada (theropithecus gelada). Source: Wikimedia Commons

The management of ZOO planned to hand gelada baboon male Heiko over to some other ZOO but it seems that the freewheeling monkey is actually a kind of advertisment for the zoological garden, attracting many new fans.

Heiko has run away from ZOO twice in last two years. In 2007, he was captured after several days while he was begging golf players in Jinačovice for cookies. In October 2009, he spent several nights hidden in woods around quarters Bystrc and Kohoutovice.

Martin Hovorka, director of the ZOO, anounced yesterday that Heiko would stay in Brno, relocated to a safer pavilion.

Source: Brněnský deník Rovnost