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zoogiraffe said:
You will have a job using it now its been replaced by the PR department,which I think is a shame is they could have used it!!!
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The zoo newsletters from the 1930s and 1940s would certainly offer some helpful guidance on how to share information with members. As a Chester regular living away at university, there's something slightly frustrating about learning of, say, the passing of a popular animal which has been in the collection for over twenty years only by watching the TV show.
 
This should be the third holding in Europe if I am correct. But if they aren't endangered then why are they off-show?
 
Swampy said:
I suspect this refers to rarity in captivity, not in the wild. Anyone know how many are in private hands in Europe?
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This is indeed what they are referring to, as there are only three collections with them in captivity (one German, one Dutch, and Chester). I know that Sparsholt College in England have/had some....
 
You can remember when the map was useful Brum, I am amazed :p

My recollections of the zoo library are magazines and annual reports from other zoos. Guide books from other zoos. International Zoo Yearbook. Grizmek's Animal Encyclopaedia. Zoo and animal related books. Scientific papers. A full set of Our Zoo News and Chester Zoo News.
 
bongorob said:
My recollections of the zoo library are magazines and annual reports from other zoos. Guide books from other zoos. International Zoo Yearbook. Grizmek's Animal Encyclopaedia. Zoo and animal related books. Scientific papers. A full set of Our Zoo News and Chester Zoo News.
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Plus a pile of nice fish books I gave them when I sorted them out before moving my book collection to Devon.
 
gentle lemur said:
Plus a pile of nice fish books I gave them when I sorted them out before moving my book collection to Devon.
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And my unique copy of Zoo Without Bars, which was on-loan. Does anyone know if the Bartlett Society took charge of anything, or did it all go in the skip? I recall someone once mentioning that if records weren't locked in the Director's store, nothing was safe.
 
The last I heard all the books were in store somewhere. If you have loaned a book to the zoo, common decency suggests they would have informed you of what they were doing, and given you the option of having it returned.
 
A reminder:

TALK: A future for orangutans: seeing the woods through the smoke and palm. Ashley Leiman OBE, Director and Trustee of the Orangutan Foundation. Chester Zoo, 7th April.

Doors open at 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start at Chester Zoo’s Russell Allen Lecture Hall.
Tickets cost £9 for FFI Members, £10 for non‐Members, with a concession of £5 for students and Zoo Staff. All prices include a buffet and wine.

Booking is essential - contact Chester Zoo on
01244 650215 or email pennyr@chesterzoo.org to reserve your seat.
 
SMR said:
And my unique copy of Zoo Without Bars, which was on-loan. Does anyone know if the Bartlett Society took charge of anything, or did it all go in the skip? I recall someone once mentioning that if records weren't locked in the Director's store, nothing was safe.
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May we ask in what way it was unique?
 
The Giant Anteater has now moved into the new house. The Pudu has stayed in the old paddock. I believe there are plans to mix with the Capybara.
 
Songbird aviaries between Spirit of the Jaguar and the chimps have been filled.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

AVIARY 1
Collared partridge
Blue-crowned laughingthrush
Cabot's tragopan
Grey-cheeked liocichla

AVIARY 2
Grey-winged blackbird
Red-tailed laughingthrush

AVIARY 3
Collared grosbeak
Reeves' pheasant

AVIARY 4
Temminck's tragopan


The blackbirds are a different pair to the ones outside Tropical Realm.
 
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