Twycross Zoo Twycross Zoo News 2022
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Visited yesterday and managed to take in Gruffalo World. Was very disappointed at the lack of foxes and the inclusion of goats... I've read The Gruffalo many times so I know there are definitely zero goats! 
To be fair though, the snake and owl exhibits are very nice indeed, just a shame there's sooooo much walking past nothing to see them. 
Other than that the zoo seemed to be looking okay, a few empty enclosures dotted around, a few notable no-shows/sleeping figures, and a closed Longhouse made the zoo seem emptier than usual but it was still a pleasant enough couple of hours in the cool after the humidity of the last few days.
To be fair though, the snake and owl exhibits are very nice indeed, just a shame there's sooooo much walking past nothing to see them. Other than that the zoo seemed to be looking okay, a few empty enclosures dotted around, a few notable no-shows/sleeping figures, and a closed Longhouse made the zoo seem emptier than usual but it was still a pleasant enough couple of hours in the cool after the humidity of the last few days.
A female Francois' Langur has been born at Twycross Zoo. She was born on the 8th July: Fran the François: Zoo’s new arrival celebrates Lionesses’ success - Twycross Zoo
I missed them last visit as they had been moved. Anyone know how many in the group now?
Just returned from my first visit in a couple of months and was left feeling a bit worried about the place for the first time in a long while. Perhaps because I’ve recently been to other collections over the last month ( Colchester, marwell, Paignton, Longleat ) and have comparisons of what can be done and what shouldn’t. The gruffalo is fine it does it’s job and the new snake was good to see but it’s still is missing a fox and indeed a mouse. The rest of the zoo now has more empty enclosures with the enclosure under improvements signs which is wearing thin now given the otter and variegated spider monkeys enclosure has been like this for a year of so now with nothing happening to them the new zoo map shows them as empty enclosures now along with four others. The yellow throated martens appears to be gone though I can confirm this but there enclosure is all boarded up and the signage removed and I didn’t see them anywhere else in the zoo. The tapir have moving crates in there enclosure now also I would think this would be for the entrance to the zoo of the road improvements but I can’t think where in the zoo they could go even with all the empty enclosure if they require a pool, so I fear for there future at the zoo. The most bemusing of all though is the old chimp enclosure by the tigers is being renovated for, according to the new map l’hoest’s monkeys and not just keepers redoing the out side but contractors renovating the indoor quarters I’m sure this enclosure was due to be demolished for the new master plan areas. As a member I would really like to know what the zoos master plan is currently before reinvesting in the membership, I will of course reinvest perhaps more though for the partner zoos entrance than twycross it’s self till all becomes clear on its direction, of to chester tomorrow for a pick me up, will upload a pic of the map in the gallery
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felis silvestris
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A bulldozer would be a good start
A lot of the Twycross enclosures do need bulldozing and to renovate more modern new enclosures to bring the zoo much more into the 21st century.
I'm not sure why this is being re-developed for the L'Hoests Monkeys. It was only a few months ago they were moved into what was formerly the Bonobo House. Why the continual moves of existing species from enclosure to enclosure? Francois Langurs are another example. Doesn't make an awful lot of sense unless the zoo explain it better.
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I know the new map shows the l’hoests moving to there though and the old bonobo house being another empty enclosure baring the tortoises it’s just baffling
I wonder if the old bonobo house is being prepared for Lope to move into, though that doesn't explain why they put the L'Hoests in there to start with. The lemurs also need moving if the orangutan plan is going ahead, maybe they will be moving into the empty exhibit near the crowned lemurs.
I hope the zoo starts getting things sorted soon. Shame about the yellow throated martens if they have left the collection.
The yellow-throated martens would be a sad loss if they have indeed departed. But they were often invisible to visitors in their sleeping boxes.Maybe the reason why.
I would have thought the other old gorilla enclosure near the tapirs would have been better for lope as in the old bonobo house they would still be able to see each other just about I don’t know if this would be a good or bad thing ?
I almost always saw them, perhaps because they when being feed when I was there in the afternoon. I do hope there there somewhere as they where a favourite and one of there few unique species
I’m a pass member and so disappointed at the moment with what’s happening I love the otters, prairie dogs and now martens ! It wouldn’t be so bad if twycross explained what was happening Im hoping to go today later gonna see if I can speak to a keeper whilst there but they are sometimes as rare as the animals lol
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sharon-redrobe-obe-11139912 Don’t know if I’m reading this right but didn’t realise Sharon Redrobe was a zoo inspector for defra that must have caused some conflicts on some of the enclosures