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Snow Leopards are visually stunning and have a particular back story of Himalayan altitude.

The Roloways to 95% of visitors are "just slightly different monkeys" - Diana Monkeys with a white backside!

Nothing is fair in love, war and exhibiting animals ...

(I've even heard silly rumours that some people don't regard Binturongs as the world's most charismatic mammals, but I don't believe it myself.)

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SHAVINGTONZOO said:
The Roloways to 95% of visitors are "just slightly different monkeys" - Diana Monkeys with a white backside!
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Now they are onshow maybe some Zoochatter can assess approximately how old the older offspring of the pair might be. Is he old enough to leave? I ask because YWP lost their breeding male a while ago now, and given these are the only two UK groups, that at some stage he would be the most likely replacement.
 
Pertinax said:
Now they are onshow maybe some Zoochatter can assess approximately how old the older offspring of the pair might be. Is he old enough to leave? I ask because YWP lost their breeding male a while ago now, and given these are the only two UK groups, that at some stage he would be the most likely replacement.
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The oldest offspring was born in February 2022.
 
jde7582 said:
I would guess the first one, as it was empty, well atleast sign posted empty on my visit on Sunday
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What was in there previously, or has it been empty for a while? Not sure if I remember an empty enclosure from my visit last year inside or outside, has anything moved in that time?
 
I did not realise there were only two capuchins left, it would be a shame for Chester to go out of this species, that would mean the spider monkeys would be the only large NW monkeys left since the sakis and howlers left a few years back.
 
Fallax said:
I did not realise there were only two capuchins left, it would be a shame for Chester to go out of this species, that would mean the spider monkeys would be the only large NW monkeys left since the sakis and howlers left a few years back.
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To be honest, I'd be more surprised if Chester didn't go out of Capuchins at this point - not exactly a priority conservation species and don't really seem to fit the modern attitudes of the zoo. Its always a shame to see a much-loved species vanish from a favourite collection though, but at least the Roloways are a lovely replacement!
 
Sand Cat said:
To be honest, I'd be more surprised if Chester didn't go out of Capuchins at this point - not exactly a priority conservation species and don't really seem to fit the modern attitudes of the zoo. Its always a shame to see a much-loved species vanish from a favourite collection though, but at least the Roloways are a lovely replacement!
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Aren’t Chester’s capuchins critically endangered golden-bellied capuchins? Even if not endangered don’t capuchins have potential to take part in behavioral research, one of the many goals of a modern zoo?
 
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Sand Cat said:
To be honest, I'd be more surprised if Chester didn't go out of Capuchins at this point - not exactly a priority conservation species and don't really seem to fit the modern attitudes of the zoo. Its always a shame to see a much-loved species vanish from a favourite collection though, but at least the Roloways are a lovely replacement!
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I wouldn't say a Critically Endangered species isn't a priority conservation species...
 
Sorry about my earlier post on the Capuchins, I genuinely thought they were regular Brown Capuchins! That does put a different light on things, but if they've been moved off show then it may still not bode well for the species' future at Chester... time will tell!

Are the Monkey Islands species now Mandrill, Lion Tailed Macaque, Spider Monkey and the new Roloway Monkeys?
 
Sand Cat said:
To be fair I suspect Chester's PR department might announce the new monkeys once the hype dies down a bit on the Snow Leopards, they're often a bit slow. Also I read somewhere that the windows in the monkey house had been covered up partly to let them settle in, so it may simply be a case of not wanting too much attention for them straight away.

The sad fact is though, as lovely as the Roloway Monkeys are, to most zoo visitors they will just be 'more monkeys'. At least the zoo has acquired them, and we can admire and enjoy them.
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Went on Wednesday and can verify that the windows are partially painted over, but I managed to get great views of the Roloways with a pair play fighting at the time.
 
Sand Cat said:
Sorry about my earlier post on the Capuchins, I genuinely thought they were regular Brown Capuchins! That does put a different light on things, but if they've been moved off show then it may still not bode well for the species' future at Chester... time will tell!

Are the Monkey Islands species now Mandrill, Lion Tailed Macaque, Spider Monkey and the new Roloway Monkeys?
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Yes :)
 
@bongorob and I visited yesterday (Saturday 23rd) with a friend who is closely in touch with developments at Chester. I asked him about the capuchins and he thought they had been moved back to their previous home, the island in the canal between the aye-ayes and the sand lizard exhibit. We saw the Roloways easily as the glass is clean now, but members waiting in the queue to see the new snow leopards took well over an hour to get a look (as I believe happened on Friday too), so we didn't join it until things were quieter near closing time, when both animals were asleep. Non-members can see them in the afternoon next week.
 
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IT'S A GIRL!

Orla's new calf has a name... Everyone, meet Edie (pronounced e-dee)

She's been named after Lake Edward in Uganda, one of the African Great Lakes. Her name is inspired by our conservation efforts in Uganda, where we're working with our partners to boost numbers and safeguard giraffes in the wild ❤️
 
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