There only seemed to be 2 adults & 3 small piglets when I visited last week
Chester Zoo Chester Zoo Discussion, Speculation & Questions 2018
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Interesting, whatever number there are I’m glad they’re building their group again.
I suspect they will never have a large group, the enclosure being not that large. More likely just parents and most recent young. I have seen large groups of RR at Colchester( but now reduced) and Howletts and they are quite spectacular, as Suidae (and many other species) always are in bigger groups.
There may have been 4 I only noticed 3 but then again I only stopped to look for a minute or so.
On closer inspection today there were 4 adult Red River hogs (I’m presuming Mum, Dad & 2 of last years litter) & 3 piglets.
Blast films were still positioned outside the Okapi enclosure.
I’m sure the meerkat birth was reported a few days before anyway, I doubt a teaser of a birth on this site would be a meerkat.Oh absolutely
Elephant
Rhinoceros
and now ... Meerkat ...
No they don't at present
Angus (M) - born at Chester in 2016. Florence X Mac
Florence (F) - born at Edinburgh in 2008. Arrived at Chester from West Midlands Safari Park in 2015
Nadine - born at Marwell in 2005. Arrived at Chester in 2011
Merida - born at Chester in 2014. Nadine X Mac
Okoth - born at Planckendael in 2013. Arrived at Chester in 2017
Now that all areas are open again does anyone have a complete list of birds currently present in the first walk through past the Bali Temple area please (this area had Javan green magpies in last year if I remember rightly)
Having seen a few posts in the reports thread mentioning new species of birds at the zoo, I hopped on over to get an overview of the current bird situation, and was surprised at just how many new entries there were
To provide a list of species that I believe to be relatively new:
To provide a list of species that I believe to be relatively new:
- Black-browed barbet (Psilopogon oorti)
- Black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
- Blue-naped mousebird (Urocolius macrourus)
- Collared trogon (Trogon collaris)
- Common waxbill (St. Helena waxbill) (Estrilda astrild)
- Fire-tufted barbet (Psilopogon pyrolophus)
- Lavender Waxbill (Estrilda caerulescens)
- Orange-cheeked waxbill (Estrilda melpoda)
- Passerini's tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii)
- Red Avadavat (Amandava amandava)
- Scaly-breasted bulbul (Pycnonotus squamatus)
- Silver-eared mesia (Leiothrix argentauris)
- South African firefinch (Lagonosticta rubricata rubricata)
- Spotted laughingthrush (Garrulax ocellatus)
- Sunda laughingthrush (Garrulax palliatus)
- West African green-backed twinspot (Mandingoa nitidula schlegeli)
- Yellow cardinal (Gubernatrix cristata)
- Yellow-crowned bishop (Euplectes afer)
- Zebra waxbill (Amandava subflava)
Do you have any locations as to were they are in the collection please as hoping now to visit this Saturday?
After looking at this list there are a few that would be lifers for me on this list.
After looking at this list there are a few that would be lifers for me on this list.
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When will the calf be on show, or is it already?
I don't sorry, I was merely browsing zootierliste and noticed a fairly large amount of new birds and was checking to see if these were errors or not.
taun
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Even if on show, don't expect to see it. Okapi calfs will sit in a "nest" for the first few months of life. Around 6 months old it usually will be following its mother about, by which point it is nearly as big as an adult.
If you want to see it, suggest camping outside the enclosure.
She has gone to Dortmund not Dusseldorf....