Chester Zoo Chester Zoo Discussion, Speculation & Questions 2018
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Zooreviewsuk
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The room opposite the fish tank and Sloth ?
That's an education room, so can't see it myself.
Probably been visiting longer than I have given your location
It’s possible! My first visit was aged around 10 years old, so it would have been 18 years ago now. But I only started to visit regularly 5 years ago (the sun bears arrived 2 years later) .
I hate to be a borebag, but I definitely remember the elephants even then being the first animals I saw upon entering.
One or two of us have been visiting since the sun bears were the first animals you saw when you entered the zoo
Sounds like a treat to me! I enjoyed the Sally the sun bear poem written by June Mottershead in 1940 as displayed in June’s Pavillion.
No, he didn’t! And you are right - I’m not happy
! I went through a stage where I had sun bear adoptions all over the place, the result of birthdays and Christmases and Valentine’s Days. Now I don’t have any at all, and the only adoption I’m responsible for has my Ma’s name on it and is located within the Tropical Realm.
Yeah, I've only been visiting for 8 years
so you have a decade on me, even if I have been visiting regularly for longer.
I have been visiting on a very regular basis for the past 5 years. I actually visit every 2-3 weeks or so. My first visit was probably in 2003 when I was 1.
Not very exciting, I know.
Also I once got lost at the zoo near the penguins when I was little and decided to hide in a bush.
Not very exciting, I know.
Also I once got lost at the zoo near the penguins when I was little and decided to hide in a bush.
I’m starting to feel really old!
Welsh Zootographer
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My Dad tells me I first visited in the summer of 1966, and whilst I was left in my pushchair by a hedge began eating the leaves! I have no recollection of this... 
Is Caughall Road the residential road I remember?
Also (from Chester's YouTube newest video)...
"Seven rare African painted dogs born at Chester Zoo have been named.
The playful puppies, who were born two-months ago to mum K’mana, were each given African-inspired monikers after the zoo’s carnivore keepers confirmed the new litter comprises of three boys and four girls.
The trio of males – Bakuru, Kendi and Hasani – and quartet of females – Mosi, Nuru, Eyasi and Bahati – are the first of their kind to be bred at the zoo.
Their arrivals mark a significant boost to the international breeding programme which is working to try and boost numbers of the endangered species, as conservationists fear as few as 1,500 breeding dogs now remain across Africa.
African painted dogs take their name from their irregular mottled coat, which features patches of yellow, black, brown and white fur. No two dogs have exactly the same markings, which is useful for trying to identify different pack members in the wild and just as helpful to the zoo’s keepers who chose the names for the four sisters and three brothers. "
"Seven rare African painted dogs born at Chester Zoo have been named.
The playful puppies, who were born two-months ago to mum K’mana, were each given African-inspired monikers after the zoo’s carnivore keepers confirmed the new litter comprises of three boys and four girls.
The trio of males – Bakuru, Kendi and Hasani – and quartet of females – Mosi, Nuru, Eyasi and Bahati – are the first of their kind to be bred at the zoo.
Their arrivals mark a significant boost to the international breeding programme which is working to try and boost numbers of the endangered species, as conservationists fear as few as 1,500 breeding dogs now remain across Africa.
African painted dogs take their name from their irregular mottled coat, which features patches of yellow, black, brown and white fur. No two dogs have exactly the same markings, which is useful for trying to identify different pack members in the wild and just as helpful to the zoo’s keepers who chose the names for the four sisters and three brothers. "
Zooreviewsuk
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I hope you weren’t a school kid who mooned a chimp lol
Zooreviewsuk
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Don’t worry Dave and Lemur were around before Jesus and Moses so you’re still young lol
It would have been a better story if it happened 3 years laterMy Dad tells me I first visited in the summer of 1966, and whilst I was left in my pushchair by a hedge began eating the leaves! I have no recollection of this...
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taun
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Must be getting people who were born after zoochat (or zoobeat those longer users) was created now using the site......bonkers.
I don't remember my first visit but do remember second visit when the old Elephant house and Hippos was on the current Elephant house site. Also myself and a mate trying to get a cheetah to chase us when they were in what was the serval enclosure (pass whats there now).
I don't remember my first visit but do remember second visit when the old Elephant house and Hippos was on the current Elephant house site. Also myself and a mate trying to get a cheetah to chase us when they were in what was the serval enclosure (pass whats there now).
the serval enclosure currently has 1.1 Indian Muintjac in residence.
If you headed left when you had entered sealions would have been the first animals you saw.
For younger members, the north entrance was opposite the aquarium until 1995, this entrance was used by the majority of visitors.
Yes it is, a lot of large houses along that road.
If you headed left when you had entered sealions would have been the first animals you saw.
For younger members, the north entrance was opposite the aquarium until 1995, this entrance was used by the majority of visitors.
Yes it is, a lot of large houses along that road.
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You're feeling old? I've got photos of me at Chester Zoo from c.1960!
But the current staff entrance isn't quite the same as the old pedestrian public entrance, which was on the Eastern side of the little cottage - and so it would have been Wapiti first.
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Waddi
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Would that have been this entrance?
That is the old North Entrance, closed in the summer of 1995. Part ofCedar House now stands on that site.