Chester Zoo Guessing Game

Not beening thinking along those lines but got to admit its a very good thought and the enclosure would be okay for them.
 
I'd be amazed if they put a small cat in an open-topped enclosure - almost any small cat can easily climb vertical mesh and I don't think an overhang would perturb them for long. Although the sex ratio doesn't match, I would have thought that the dik-diks would be a good fit for that enclosure (they are excellent jumpers but an overhang does seem ultra-cautious). I like the idea of jackals, but it doesn't seem very Chester somehow...
 
robmv said:
I would have thought that the dik-diks would be a good fit for that enclosure (they are excellent jumpers but an overhang does seem ultra-cautious).
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Dik-diks are going to be tried to be mixed with Giraffes.

But I agree with the Jackels are somewhat not really chester, but they are missing something of that type.
 
taun said:
But I agree with the Jackels are somewhat not really chester, but they are missing something of that type.
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The zoo used to have black-backed jackals as well as striped hyenas in the pens where the butterfly house is now, but that was many years ago.
 
They have cleared most of the enclosure out, know one seems to know or not willing to tell whats going in there :(
 
I thought I was going to get the answer today, because I had a short conversation with the bushdog's keeper after she had fed them (chicken pieces, much appreciated of course). Unfortunately she told me that she was only a student and she hadn't been told anything :mad:

FWIW my guess is more bushdogs. The current trio are in the old sunbear enclosure (as Maguari reported previously); they are the Chester male and two females who arrived from Denmark at the same time as the new spectacled bear. So bringing in unrelated males would make sense, and I'd like to believe it could happen as I'm fond of bushdogs.

When I arrived at 10.30 a huge animal transporter from the continent was parked in the main car park - it was the sort that has two sections which could each hold a rhino. It was gone when I left at 3.15. I have no idea whether it was importing or exporting or both. I'm sure we'll hear eventually.

Alan
 
A carnivore section keeper last autumn told me that a new group of bush dogs will be established. So you could be right.
 
gentle lemur said:
When I arrived at 10.30 a huge animal transporter from the continent was parked in the main car park - it was the sort that has two sections which could each hold a rhino. It was gone when I left at 3.15. I have no idea whether it was importing or exporting or both. I'm sure we'll hear eventually.

Alan
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Completely forgot about that, I gather it dropped off or picked up early in the morning, as I saw it there at just before ten when I arrived at the zoo.
 
Also on my visit yesterday I notice that in the congo buffalo house the end two pens were boarded up, usually if there's a birth they will just close the house so could there be another species arriving soon?

I didn't get a chance to ask the keepers
 
Why are the bush dogs back in the small enclosure?
Another group of them would be a good call, not quite as exciting as a new species though.
 
taun said:
Also on my visit yesterday I notice that in the congo buffalo house the end two pens were boarded up, usually if there's a birth they will just close the house so could there be another species arriving soon?

I didn't get a chance to ask the keepers
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Perhaps it's the mystery ungulate arriving.
 
^Chris^ said:
Why are the bush dogs back in the small enclosure?
Another group of them would be a good call, not quite as exciting as a new species though.
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I gather partly because the group is alot smaller than it was.
 
^Chris^ said:
Why are the bush dogs back in the small enclosure?
Another group of them would be a good call, not quite as exciting as a new species though.
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I don't believe it's significantly smaller and I think it suits the bushdogs well - except that there is no pool and it could do with a bit more planting.

Alan
 
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Please let us know if and what the 'mystery transport' is revealed to be- was it Rosie and if so, where has she gone?
 
I heard from one of the bird keepers yesterday that there were a number of birds going to European zoos, and also a zebra. I also heard something about elephant transfers, but he was rather vague and didn't know the exact details of who/what was coming and going.
 
Was there talk about Birma leaving the Elephant group a while back because of incompatibility with the bull Upali ?
 
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