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The second baby pangolin born at Prague Zoo was given the name Connie, the zoo has announced on its website. Several thousand people took part in choosing the name from a shortlist of four.

The pangolin pup has the same parents, the female Run Hou Tang and male Guo Bao, as the first short-tailed pangolin to be born in Europe, Šiška, who was born in the zoo in early 2023. The pair of parent pangolins were sent to Prague in 2022 from a zoo in Taiwan.

According to Prague Zoo breeders, the baby pangolin continues to gain weight and has already started riding around on her mother’s tail.

Czech swimmer Barbora Seemanová failed short of reaching the final in the women’s 100m butterfly in Paris on Friday but improved her personal record to 57,50. Seemanová will be fighting for Monday's final of the 200m breaststroke, in which she is a two-time European champion, on Sunday.

Strengthening the country’s security following the mass shooting at Prague’s Charles University in December will cost CZK 3.6 billion, the website Ekonomicky denik reported on Sunday, citing government material.

About two dozen measures directly related to the incident at the Faculty of Arts, in which a shooter killed 14 people, should be implemented during the next three years. They include the purchase of weapons and equipment for police officers or gunfire protection for firefighters, virtual reality training and emergency notification apps.

The government plans to adopt another five dozen measures worth billions of crowns by 2031.

Czech singer-songwriter Oldřich Janota, a key figure of the country’s alternative folk scene, has died at the age of 74. The news was announced by his family on social media on Saturday. The Plzeň-born artist was known for incorporating minimalist and experimental techniques into folk music, as well as working with pre-recorded tapes.

Janota wrote his first songs in the late 1960s. He performed with the folk-rock band Pentagram, before establishing his own group called Mozart K in 1979. In 2009, a 17-track album Ztracený ve světě: A Tribute to Oldřich Janota was released to mark his 60th birthday.