A wide steppe zone will be built in the zoo and the first species to reside there are the Takin.
The younger of the zoo’s two Takins was born in the Korkeasaari zoo this year while the older was born in Germany in 2001.
The Takin is a goat-antelope species found in the Himalayas.
The Takin’s average length is 2 metres and height measured from the withers is more than a metre. The animal can weigh up to 350 kilograms.
Both males and females have about 30-centimetre-long horns.
Western zoologists only discovered the species in 1910. The Takin is currently a national animal in Bhutan.
The zoo is also home to another Asian species – the snow leopard – for over 10 years now.
