One year anniversary of Postojna’s batch of ‘baby dragons’

“The olm juveniles won’t be released into their natural environment, since they would most likely not survive it,” commented the experts at Postojna cave. Since the first egg, discovered in January 2016, they have been monitoring their development with an infrared camera, which has already recorded 17,500 hours of video. The material will become a matter for professional literature, because the life cycle of the ‘human fish’ is not very well known. The goal of the biologists at Postojna Cave is to maintain a cave environment in which the human fish can survive. This includes clean and safe water and a clean environment. "All their food is specially grown and “cultivated” to avoid any parasites or unwanted effects on the vulnerable baby olms,” explained biologist Saso Weldt.

At January’s press conference at Postojna Cave, the management introduced its successful statistics - almost €21 million of revenue generated more than €5 million of profit, which is 40% more than the previous year. “I can tell you a secret why this is happening - if you take good care of the cave, the cave returns the favour," said the CEO of Postojna Cave, Marjan Batagelj.

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