Doing a bit of digging, that image on the post is not their own but is an old picture taken from elsewhere on the internet dated to the 2000s...
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That makes sense now - it's the mum & son who visited many times. Can't believe someone posted a photo that is not theirs ! Thank you for solving the mystery.
- we visited
Alwaysevergreen
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That looks a pretty fake post, as there is a picture of a Indri on it as well! We all know Chester don't have Indri.
I started looking at the photos and thought the same. Is the black & white lemur photo genuine ?- never got a shot like that. Where are they located in the zoo now ?- didn't see them on Thursday
Alwaysevergreen
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his picture is of an Indri ! Not a black and white lemur!
although there are white and black ruffed lemurs in the walkthrough
- yes seen them
That was my mistake - need new glasses. Interesting about the Indri
Alwaysevergreen
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Wouldn’t say interesting as it’s another stock photo off the internet and Chester don’t have them. They seem to have been to the zoo and done a post about it using no photos taken at the zoo. Strange
When I joined Zoochat 16 years ago, Wikipedia said Chester were getting Indris. I asked a keeper who said there was no chance.
I went yesterday. The walkway past the hornbills in the Tropical House is open again, the female Sunda Wrinkled Hornbill was on the nest and the male was feeding her. The Great Indian Hornbills have been replaced by a pair of Red-billed Curassows.
A visitor in Dragons in Danger saw the label for galliwasps and remakred that she thought it was rather a big area just for wasps.
I went yesterday. The walkway past the hornbills in the Tropical House is open again, the female Sunda Wrinkled Hornbill was on the nest and the male was feeding her. The Great Indian Hornbills have been replaced by a pair of Red-billed Curassows.
A visitor in Dragons in Danger saw the label for galliwasps and remakred that she thought it was rather a big area just for wasps.
By walkway by the hornbills do you mean the overhead area or the part under it? Regarding the great Indian hornbills are there are still some in the elephant house?
I recall hearing that even in semi-captive situation, indri die fairly quickly from whatever cause - let alone in zoo captivity where the longevity record is 7 days.
I believe it is now illegal to attempt to take Indri into captivity.
Sorry, I mean the ground level path, there are still Great Indian hornbills in the Elephant House.
dillotest0, I never knew it was that long.
In his book "Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; From the Living Collections of the World” (2005) Richard Weigl lists a male indri that lived in San Diego between 4th and 11th September 1965.
Several other authors list short lived indri at the Jardin des Plantes Menagerie (Paris) in 1939 without giving precise dates.
hari Jones
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Given the chronology... I think that was my fault.
When I was about 10-11, I used to do a lot of random edits on Wikipedia (didn't quite "get" what it was for then) - and, as I recall, that was one of them (I'd found out about them from animal books and didn't know the abysmal survival rates at the time... I was 10, mind you).
It's kind of embarrassing admitting that I used to do this now - and I'd honestly forgotten what specific edits I did until I read it just now. (There is a drawing of an indri in the Madagascar section - is the picture of that?)
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