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TriUK said:
Perhaps a research project? Increased breeding in some species in the absence of visitors...?
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why not? here is the golden opportunity given to look at historic breeding over the years and see what develops in the future without us lot gawping at them daily!

On a more serious note there could be significant & useful conservation findings with captive breeding and keeping (plus many more findings) if anyone has time to do the research and crunch the data with this hypothesis.

It could potentially make a scientific report for any student, BSc to PhD.
 
TriUK said:
Perhaps a research project? Increased breeding in some species in the absence of visitors...?
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I think it would be very difficult to get a clear result. You would need to get a sufficiently large sample for reliable statistics, so you would have to study breeding records for several common species in a number of zoos over a period of years. Then you would have to prove that any difference in breeding success was not caused by changes in diet, management, husbandry, accommodation or weather.
If I were a student and my supervisor suggested such a difficult project, with such a small chance of success, I would politely ask for a different task or a different supervisor.
 
gentle lemur said:
I think it would be very difficult to get a clear result. You would need to get a sufficiently large sample for reliable statistics, so you would have to study breeding records for several common species in a number of zoos over a period of years. Then you would have to prove that any difference in breeding success was not caused by changes in diet, management, husbandry, accommodation or weather.
If I were a student and my supervisor suggested such a difficult project, with such a small chance of success, I would politely ask for a different task or a different supervisor.
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If the original post was a reference to the two recent gorilla births, I very much doubt it was influenced at all by recent events. Kala's summer baby would have been conceived before the pandemic anyway.
 
gentle lemur said:
Then you would have to prove that any difference in breeding success was not caused by changes in diet, management, husbandry, accommodation or weather..
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Weather is always unpredictable in our climate, so saying that is not really viable here, are all UK ecological reports defective because of the weather.?, no. As for changes in diet, management, husbandry etc, they change very little for the majority of species I think you will find, yes there are always some changes, but, are the changes significant to effect the potential project,? this in my opinion is looking for some reasons for it not to succeed before you start (that is not a criticism of your views!). Then you mention accommodation, if this changes, yes its impact could be massive for reproduction success, so don't include these species in the report who have moved accommodation or had accommodation changes.

However, I do very much agree with your comment about getting enough data required to get the statistics to prove anything either way, I did say above that getting the data to crunch to get the statistics is critical, without enough of this info, yes it would be pointless. Maybe as you say it's just not there in the volume required. However, still worthy of looking at it, you may see something viable of a sound report if someone looks. If you don't look into it you will always get nowhere.
 
Today's Metro (5/2/21:6) says that a campaign has been launched to bring a lion back to Britain from a zoo in Tehran. Kamran, now called Hirman, left Bristol Zoo to join a female. A whistleblower said Hirman was maltreated and had not been seen by a vet after falling ill.
 
Dassie rat said:
Today's Metro (5/2/21:6) says that a campaign has been launched to bring a lion back to Britain from a zoo in Tehran. Kamran, now called Hirman, left Bristol Zoo to join a female. A whistleblower said Hirman was maltreated and had not been seen by a vet after falling ill.
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I believe this was one of the two brothers previously held at Bristol for several years- were they born at Twycross? Bristol kept the other brother (forget name) to pair with a female but he died very shortly afterward.
 
Pertinax said:
I believe this was one of the two brothers previously held at Bristol for several years- were they born at Twycross? Bristol kept the other brother (forget name) to pair with a female but he died very shortly afterward.
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Kamran and Ketran - they were born at Bristol in December 2012 to Shiva and Kamal. Kamal was euthanized (age related heath problems) a few days after they were born. Unfortunately the stress of losing her mate caused Shiva to reject the cubs and they had to be handreared. Eventually Shiva was returned to Besançon (where she was born) and they kept the cubs together until Kamran went to Tehran in April 2019. Ketran died of an infection a few weeks later. The current male (Sahee) came from Le PAL (in France) in August 2019.
 
Dassie rat said:
Today's Metro (5/2/21:6) says that a campaign has been launched to bring a lion back to Britain from a zoo in Tehran. Kamran, now called Hirman, left Bristol Zoo to join a female. A whistleblower said Hirman was maltreated and had not been seen by a vet after falling ill.
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Link please?

Please note their erstwhile vet left Tehran Zoo - Pardisan Park following major disagreements on animal curating and welfare.
 
gentle lemur said:
Checking into the zoo's website, I noticed a plan for the development of its west car park for housing. I didn't even know that this site existed or that the zoo owned it until I studied the page. Safeguarding our Future: BZS opens consultation on development of its West Car Park | Bristol Zoo
If the plans go ahead they will provide important funds for the development of the Wild Place site.
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I seem to remember in the 'old days' this was an area with Greenhouses/plant beds etc for the Zoo's famous horticultural section. There were also greenhouses in the corner of the zoo behind the Reptile/Aquarium buildings. One day not so long ago I turned up and found it had become an overflow carpark...
 
A Linne’s two-toed sloth was born March 29:

First baby sloth in nearly a decade born at Bristol Zoo

The tiny Linne's two-toed sloth "came into the world upside down" just over two weeks ago on 29 March.

Mother, eight-year-old Trixie, gave birth to the infant in an enclosure she shares with father, 19-year-old Rio.

Al Toyne, mammals team leader, said: "It's almost 10 years since a sloth has been born at Bristol Zoo. It's doing really well and we are all delighted."
 
I visited Bristol on the 13th of this month, there's not much to report but for those who want to follow the winding down of the site I can report that the otter enclosure is empty, so too is the monkey island that formally housed titi monkeys. Penguin numbers seemed down, I only saw 11 but I think there's a few more than that. Also the avocets have gone from the flamingo aviary.
All indoor areas, except the gorilla house, were closed due to Covid restrictions.
 
Ned said:
I visited Bristol on the 13th of this month, there's not much to report but for those who want to follow the winding down of the site I can report that the otter enclosure is empty, so too is the monkey island that formally housed titi monkeys. Penguin numbers seemed down, I only saw 11 but I think there's a few more than that. Also the avocets have gone from the flamingo aviary.
All indoor areas, except the gorilla house, were closed due to Covid restrictions.
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Thanks, but not much positive news here!!
 
The male gorilla infant born last December has been named ‘Juni’:

Bristol Zoo's baby gorilla named Juni after his parents | ITV News

Juni’s name was announced following a poll of zoo staff and volunteers who opted for the name which combined those of his parents – Jock and Touni.

Young Juni is one of a troop of eight gorillas here at Bristol Zoo.

Juni is Touni’s second baby as she gave birth to Ayana who is four years old and still lives at the zoo.

Touni came to Bristol from La Vallee des Singes zoo in France in September 2015 to be a breeding partner to Jock who arrived at the zoo 12 years earlier.
 
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