Burgers' Zoo Burger's Zoo nocturnal house

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does anybody got memories of the now closed nocturnal house at burgers zoo

i was still very young and my family allways used to miss the entire house amd the firat time i visited the exhibition was sadly the last
the building was too crowded so i think i saw only one or two enclousure from the entrance and i think the zoo either closed or my family wanted to go to a different part of the park
any way we left the house behind ans since then the house closed sadly soon after that
 
The nocturnal house was located between the penguin enclosure at the entrance of the zoo and the building for primates, pygymy hippos and lowland tapirs. It consisted of one corridor with the outer wall on one side and glass fronted enclosures on the other side. I can't recall the number of enclosures.

In 1998/1999 - the final years of its existence and the two years I visited it for sure - the following species were kept at the nocturnal house of Burgers Zoo: nine-banded armadillo, two-toed sloth, lesser mousedeer, mountain paca, grey mouse lemur, greater galago and three-striped night monkey.

The most famous species of this nocturnal house is the white-bellied pangolin, kept from 1991 to 1994.

Amend lists the following other species in his book: brush-tail possum, giant anteater, large hairy armadillo, aardvark, greater tenrec, Eurasian badger, striped skunk, dwarf epauletted fruitbat, Lyle's flying fox, chinchilla, Demidorff's galago, potto and slow loris.
 
AWP said:
In 1998/1999 - the final years of its existence and the two years I visited it for sure - the following species were kept at the nocturnal house of Burgers Zoo: nine-banded armadillo, two-toed sloth, lesser mousedeer, mountain paca, grey mouse lemur, greater galago and three-striped night monkey.
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I don't remember any Mountain Paca from the final years, they did however have a large breeding group of Lyles' Flying Foxes and Ringtails.
 
lintworm said:
I don't remember any Mountain Paca from the final years, they did however have a large breeding group of Lyles' Flying Foxes and Ringtails.
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Well, I'm sure I saw mountain paca in those years in the nocturnal house. I forgot the ringtails, indeed present in the late 1990's.
 
AWP said:
Well, I'm sure I saw mountain paca in those years in the nocturnal house. I forgot the ringtails, indeed present in the late 1990's.
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It probably says more about my memory :p 1 more new species I have seen as a kid, that I don't remember having seen then...
 
lintworm said:
It probably says more about my memory :p 1 more new species I have seen as a kid, that I don't remember having seen then...
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Those years were the glory days of the mountain pacas in Europe, I believe. I only saw the species in the second half of the 1990's and earliest 2000's. Of the zoos I visited in these period, the species was kept in Artis, Burgers, Antwerpen and Zoo Berlin. I remember the mountain paca as one of the inhabitants of the central enclosure of the small mammal house of Artis, although it might have been kept in the Jungle by Night later on. In Antwerpen the species was on display in the old style nocturnal house. I doubt I saw mountain paca in Berlin, as I visited the old style nocturnal house (too) briefly because it was very crowded.
 
Tree pangolins were actually kept for three years, no breeding success though, I assume. Does anyone have any pictures?
 
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