No there were more carnivore pits, where the Desert is now The polar bears were where the Desert restaurant is now.
Burgers' Zoo Burgers Zoo 2018
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No there were more carnivore pits, where the Desert is now The polar bears were where the Desert restaurant is now.
PicanBird
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oh forreal? That's very hard to imagine, the zoo without its ecodisplays
A real pitty because the start of Pygmy hippo-keeping at Burgers started on a very special way.
April 1963 a plain with 8 Pygmy hippos was on its way to Europe and 2 of these animals were planned for Burger's. During the flight however the female of this couple gave birth to a young so instead of 2, Burger's recieved 3 Pygmy hippos and I guess they are the only zoo world-wide which kept an air-born Pygmy hippo !
Dutch newspaper-article about the birth )
Telegraaf April 16, 1963
PicanBird
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Oh that is some really cool trivia! Still gotta love the phrasing in old dutch newspapers. But sadly the enclosures near the entrance and the old rocks are getting cleared, seems like. So who knows what's coming up!
Found an old zoo map from around 1970, the hippos were kept in enclosure number 52 ( left, below on the map ) :
PicanBird
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I think I've got that map in my Burgers' Zoo 100years book. Seeing that map reminds me of the unused space top right. But they had cool animal back then, many ain't in the zoo anymore sadlyFound an old zoo map from around 1970, the hippos were kept in enclosure number 52 ( left, below on the map ) :
The last Grey's piping guan has died. The animal had reached an age of 23 years.
Yes, I suspected that was likely to be the case given the fact it was no longer signposted when we went, if I recall rightly
Yes, I suspected that was likely to be the case given the fact it was no longer signposted when we went, if I recall rightly
Indeed. That night I read the new "Harpij" (a Dutch magazine for zoo people) and it said the guan was gone. Nothing on the leafbird though, but given the fact that it too was no longer signposted I fear it may have died too, but I'm not sure about that.
I don't remember the leafbird ever being signposted, but I might be wrong..
On a brighter note, one of the rhinoes is pregnant again.
The older cow.
PicanBird
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Oh man I wish I could receive the "Harpij". Sad to see the Guan gone, I spotted him/her a few weeks ago near the desert tunnel but hearing this means another bigger bird gone in the bush. I still think the leafbird is a myth at this point
The sole reason the chachalacas are there is to replace the guan, because there was only a single elderly animal left (which is the one that died).
I think it have seen it signposted. Besides, it would be weird if all other birds were signposted and the leafbird wasn't.
I have some horrible phone snaps of the signage of the free-roaming animals in August 2016, and there's no leafbird in there... I definitely hope it's still around!
The species signed then were: fody, snowy-crowned robin-chat, red-eared bulbul, brazilian tanager, chestnut-backed thrush, white-rumped shama, blue-black grassquit, rose-bellied bunting (twice, oddly enough), white-eye, timor sparrow, purple honeycreeper, screaming piha, speckled mousebird, red-crested turaco, asian fairy-bluebird, red-rumped cacique, pheasant-pigeon, sunbittern, crested partridge, blue-crowned laughingthrush, african darter, brazilian teal, white-faced whistling-duck, scarlet ibis, crowned pigeon, pied imperial pigeon, pinon's imperial pigeon, nicobar pigeon, gray's piping-guan, emerald dove, bleeding-heart, green iguana, green basilisk and guadeloupean anole.
The species signed then were: fody, snowy-crowned robin-chat, red-eared bulbul, brazilian tanager, chestnut-backed thrush, white-rumped shama, blue-black grassquit, rose-bellied bunting (twice, oddly enough), white-eye, timor sparrow, purple honeycreeper, screaming piha, speckled mousebird, red-crested turaco, asian fairy-bluebird, red-rumped cacique, pheasant-pigeon, sunbittern, crested partridge, blue-crowned laughingthrush, african darter, brazilian teal, white-faced whistling-duck, scarlet ibis, crowned pigeon, pied imperial pigeon, pinon's imperial pigeon, nicobar pigeon, gray's piping-guan, emerald dove, bleeding-heart, green iguana, green basilisk and guadeloupean anole.
Zootierliste says there are tokay geckos and bearded dragons in burgers zoo. Can anyone confirm or tell where those are? Ive never seen them.
The geckos are supposed to live in the Bush (so if they are still there, the chances of finding them are remote at best.
The bearded dragons used to be in the Pheasantry (combined with gouldian finches), but when visiting a week ago I couldn't find them and they weren't signposted anymore. I know they are not the most interesting species but the exhibit looks rather empty now with just a few finches.
The bearded dragons used to be in the Pheasantry (combined with gouldian finches), but when visiting a week ago I couldn't find them and they weren't signposted anymore. I know they are not the most interesting species but the exhibit looks rather empty now with just a few finches.
That does explain that plain looking exhibit. It also says about house geckos, so if tokays live in the bush i supose those also live there. Do you also know about chukwalla's and rock squirrels? Have never heard of those living there neither.