I made a visit to Chester on 29th September.
The zoo has solved the problem of visitors not being able to use the map. There aren't any maps.
Some new fish and invertebrate species are on show in Monsoon Forest.
Golden Weaver Ant, a few thousand by the look of it, Gangetic leaf fish, a few others.
I was lucky enough to see female jewel wasps biting the antennae off cockroaches.
However this building still has the problem of people looking at the big red monkeys blocking the view of those people who want to see the interesting things.
New in the Bali aviary are red jungle fowl.
Vegetation around the purple-naped lory aviary has been cleared away. So now visitors can see the aviary, they could not in March 2020.
The boat ride was closed.
A member of staff was talking to visitors in the new South American aviary and I overheard them say that the zoo brought in Caribbean flamingos especially for this exhibit. DUH.
I like the aviary although being a zoochatter I wanted torrent ducks, limpkin and sungrebes. HAHA
Now they just need to roof overthe penguins, to stop the herons and gulls from stealing the fish and to help prevent wild birds from spreading disease,
Two keepers waiting to service the pied tamarin enclosure were delayed because they were unable to unlock the gate. One of them called for assistance but ?I didn't wait to see what happened. I did see four tamarins though, first time I've seen them at Chester for a while.
At least one three-spined stickleback is living in the seahorse tank.
The bat cave and the upper aviaries in the tropical house are closed, as was the path to the mongooses by the lions. I've only been to this area about 5 times but I have yet to see this path open.
I think changing the tuatara exhibit into a Madagascan exhibit is not an improvement.
I like the new adder enclosure, didn't see any though. I've always thought that the sand loizards next door could share their enclosure with natterjack toads.
I was asked by a woman where the painted cats were. I said I'd never heard of the, then she said she meant painted dogs, so I was able to provide directions.
A painted cat sounds like it would be an interesting looking animal.
Finally I saw a digger in the red river hog enclosure. The highlight of the day.
The zoo has solved the problem of visitors not being able to use the map. There aren't any maps.
Some new fish and invertebrate species are on show in Monsoon Forest.
Golden Weaver Ant, a few thousand by the look of it, Gangetic leaf fish, a few others.
I was lucky enough to see female jewel wasps biting the antennae off cockroaches.
However this building still has the problem of people looking at the big red monkeys blocking the view of those people who want to see the interesting things.
New in the Bali aviary are red jungle fowl.
Vegetation around the purple-naped lory aviary has been cleared away. So now visitors can see the aviary, they could not in March 2020.
The boat ride was closed.
A member of staff was talking to visitors in the new South American aviary and I overheard them say that the zoo brought in Caribbean flamingos especially for this exhibit. DUH.
I like the aviary although being a zoochatter I wanted torrent ducks, limpkin and sungrebes. HAHA
Now they just need to roof overthe penguins, to stop the herons and gulls from stealing the fish and to help prevent wild birds from spreading disease,
Two keepers waiting to service the pied tamarin enclosure were delayed because they were unable to unlock the gate. One of them called for assistance but ?I didn't wait to see what happened. I did see four tamarins though, first time I've seen them at Chester for a while.
At least one three-spined stickleback is living in the seahorse tank.
The bat cave and the upper aviaries in the tropical house are closed, as was the path to the mongooses by the lions. I've only been to this area about 5 times but I have yet to see this path open.
I think changing the tuatara exhibit into a Madagascan exhibit is not an improvement.
I like the new adder enclosure, didn't see any though. I've always thought that the sand loizards next door could share their enclosure with natterjack toads.
I was asked by a woman where the painted cats were. I said I'd never heard of the, then she said she meant painted dogs, so I was able to provide directions.
A painted cat sounds like it would be an interesting looking animal.
Finally I saw a digger in the red river hog enclosure. The highlight of the day.
