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I noticed that Tizzer wasn't there when i went on the 11th. Also during that visited Clara seemed to be away from the rest of the crash as wasn't with her normal buddy Mikumi.
 
AlexanderTHG said:
I noticed that Tizzer wasn't there when i went on the 11th. Also during that visited Clara seemed to be away from the rest of the crash as wasn't with her normal buddy Mikumi.
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Clara was put to sleep the day before your visit, on 10th Nov 2021 ...
 
I noticed yesterday something large has been driven into the back of the tiger house. There’s temporary roadway piled up there and you can see where it was laid out across the grass.
Follow ups to previous comments - Nandi the baby rhino is very much present and her signage is still up.
Columbo is always out in the grassed paddock in afternoons, as he was yesterday.
 
First post though lurker for a while.

Just to say that Neo one of the last African lions was put down last Wednesday leaving only 2 lions from the original pride. There’s no ‘news’ about it and they are only informing visitors if they ask about it according to the keeper I spoke to (I wondered where Neo was as had seen him two weeks before and they are always together so went off to find someone).

A sad moment, I have very much enjoyed seeing him and the others over the years (I visit whipsnade very regularly as a keen big cat photographer).

I guess there may be some moves to take the two remaining lions off show to the big cat quarantine area (opposite the hippos) if asiatics were to come in - the exhibit and zoo Africa narrative would need a bit of a rework for that to happen. It’s probably unlikely we’d see African lions again I guess give their status. I hope we don’t lose lions altogether in the ‘not london’ zoo.

I hope they do stay in their enclosure, it’s been a great space for them to be in since it was redeveloped, though of course many zoo visitors and ‘rare lions are the only worthwhile lions’ tick boxers are bored by ‘old African lions’. That’s a shame when they are still so amazing to see even at 15.

Good times, thanks Neo.
 
Lafone said:
First post though lurker for a while.

Just to say that Neo one of the last African lions was put down last Wednesday leaving only 2 lions from the original pride. There’s no ‘news’ about it and they are only informing visitors if they ask about it according to the keeper I spoke to (I wondered where Neo was as had seen him two weeks before and they are always together so went off to find someone).

A sad moment, I have very much enjoyed seeing him and the others over the years (I visit whipsnade very regularly as a keen big cat photographer).

I guess there may be some moves to take the two remaining lions off show to the big cat quarantine area (opposite the hippos) if asiatics were to come in - the exhibit and zoo Africa narrative would need a bit of a rework for that to happen. It’s probably unlikely we’d see African lions again I guess give their status. I hope we don’t lose lions altogether in the ‘not london’ zoo.

I hope they do stay in their enclosure, it’s been a great space for them to be in since it was redeveloped, though of course many zoo visitors and ‘rare lions are the only worthwhile lions’ tick boxers are bored by ‘old African lions’. That’s a shame when they are still so amazing to see even at 15.

Good times, thanks Neo.
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I’d be very surprised if Whipsnade completely phased out African lion, but I can’t see Asiatics arriving, sadly, as that’s one of London’s big investments.

I repeat they really should have started from scratch with the female cub Kia a few years back and sent the castrated male cubs off-show, or to a private collection (Smarden?). It’s probably too late now.
 
A sign on next to the squirrel monkey island from my visit yesterday:
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Is this likely to be where the Sulawesi crested macaques will live?
 

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Also from yesterday's visit:
- the demoiselle cranes have been removed from the lake by the restaurant and signs for them taken down
- the new meerkat house is complete and there is now lots of red sand in the enclosure
- some Boreray Sheep (I counted three) are now living with the three alpacas in the farm
 
AlexanderTHG said:
Also from yesterday's visit:
- the demoiselle cranes have been removed from the lake by the restaurant and signs for them taken down
- the new meerkat house is complete and there is now lots of red sand in the enclosure
- some Boreray Sheep (I counted three) are now living with the three alpacas in the farm
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Since when have they had Demoiselles?
 
Panthera1981 said:
Whipsnade have held both Blue and Demoiselle crane for a good few years now. I remember seeing Demoiselle in the aviary next to the railway cafe and Blue in the (now long defunct) Bird Garden.
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The January 2021 Stocklist lists the following crane species:
1.0 Brolga
1.1 Red-crowned
1.1 Stanley
2.4 Wattled
 
Have the marabou also left the zoo?[/QUOTE]
No, thankfully!
They briefly went off-show a month or two back while a new house was being built for them, but are now back on display in the aviary next to the restaurant, along with African sacred ibis!
 
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