By combining the two enclosures it is fairly long, it looked like they were digging further to the rear of the reindeer paddock so making it wider too.
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Mckenzie2000
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Excellent, thank you! I just know that as pack-living carnivores, they’ll need a lot of space but sounds like Dudley are making all the right provisions!
How did you find this out? Have there been anymore updates on the new exhibit?
Was chatting to a keeper and the dogs are ready to arrive just waiting on the enclosure there will be 2 enclosures with accommodation in the middle and there will be a viewing platform overlooking the dogs
Wasn't expecting African wild dogs to return to Dudley that quickly... after almost 4 years since the last pair died.
Not saying this is a bad thing, if anything I'm glad they're coming back though I would've loved to see a big cat in there (cheetah, clouded leopard) or even zebras like in the old days.
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Do you know where the arctic foxes are going to?
No she didn’t say only that they all have homes
Strathmorezoo
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Keeper's on the bird section have been busy hand rearing 4 Humbolt Penguin chicks during the past 4 weeks
Charles
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I’m not too familiar with Dudley but at the moment flamingo land and Bristol zoo project have said they want to switch to Grevy zebra in the future so if Dudley keep up their good record of keeping the zoo fresh I don’t think them getting zebras is a crazy thought
I really do hope they switch from the rather MoR reindeer to the rare endangered forest reindeer Rangifer tarandus fennicus.
Not to be rude but why would you suggest they switch to another Reindeer species after they've just moved their herd of Domestics down near the farm??
Well I've never actually seen Zebra at Dudley but I have seen a few photos/videos from past years which showed them being kept where this new enclosure is going. I thought they could merge the two paddocks together to give the equines enough space as possible.
I remember the zebra in the 70's and if memory serves me bison were kept in the next enclosure.
The issue now would be I can't think of an enclosure currently that could house them, so I doubt it could happen anytime soon.
Yes, I remember the zebra in the former reindeer enclosure and bison in the peccary enclosure.
Strathmorezoo
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I can also remember when Zebra were housed with the Giraffes
What is there rude about a straight - bare, no hard feelings - observation that a herd of domesticated reindeer be replaced with an critically endangered reindeer subspecies. It makes perfect sense and certainly as part of the EAZA/EEP ex situ conservation breeding as well as public awareness how European boreal forests remain a very threatened ecosystem and with populations in for example at 1,700 (Kainuu) and a reintroduced population at Suomenselkä (1,100 individuals) ..., there is a strong case to participate in the program. TBH: it could have happened before opening the new habitat and replacing the old domesticated stock with a breeding group of forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus). To add further value: the subspecies looks rather magnificent, regal and attractive compared to domesticated counterparts.
ZooNews2024
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I would have thought this is likely to be remote, given the costs and logistical problems of importing from Europe now, especially for an ungulate with the extra requirements for registration, plus testing and controls on TB, Bluetongue etc.
Movements of many such spp have practically stopped and populations of spp like Pudu are being managed separately either side of the English Channel. Lets just hope that the fragmentation does not lead to extinction on both sides...
I think KB is suggesting an ideal scenario here but I fear it would never happen, for the reasons you suggest.
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