I believe the 2 female Diana monkeys, who are sisters, came from Lincoln Zoo USA
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Which means the new(June) male is presumably with the old female, and the two new females next door.
Lincoln Park Zoo or Lincoln Children's Zoo?
cornu aspersum
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Seeing as the Children's Zoo doesn't seem to have the species, I'd say the former!
It is Lincoln Park Zoo. They've had good breeding success with this species as of late and therefore have a sizeable troop now. I believe these are adolescent females born at the park.
Its good to have some fresh blood from the USA coming into the European population. With only around 70(?) animals, a number of them are likely to be closely related so if as hoped the new London group breed, it will benefit the captive gene pool for the species.
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Has a lovely visit today and saw almost all the species. Some things of note are:
- As mentioned before, the African wild dog enclosure is being renovated so that it is on the same level as the visitors with the warthog enclosure remaining the same.
- Near the wild dog enclosure, some more construction is going on and it has the same poster and link as the one for SLoRa. It's possibly some more work for the dogs but could be something new.
- I don't know if this is known, but the bokyboky were in the Lemur House and looked enormous compared to their size in March when I first saw them.
- Rainforest Life was closed for maintenance.
- The path to the dik-dik enclosure from the otters was closed off.
- The Cassons were closed to everyone save for those with some type of special tickets.
- I could be misidentifying it, but there seems to be a juvenile yellow anaconda which can be seen behind the rhinoceros rat snake tank in the off-show portion. There is also some kind of long pink snake.
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Sorry if this is a silly question but I’m a bit confused as to what is happening at the wild dogs? Is the viewing entirely on ground level now?
cornu aspersum
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Not a silly question and you are correct. There is still some construction going on and the dogs are off-show but the enclosure is on the same level as the path.
Thanks!
Interesting, I'll have a look into what those are when I visit this week - I know they have a couple of Ethiopian mountain adders there but never thought there was a tank large enough for even a juvenile anaconda....
Any ideas what the pink snake could be?
cornu aspersum
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Most likely a colour-morph, although, I couldn't tell the species. I tried to take a picture but my phone won't focus on properly. From memory its snout was narrow and it didn't have any white stripes or patterns that something like a pink corn snake may have.
It was certainly a small individual and I'm not very good at ID'ing, but from searching online it does look like a yellow anaconda. There was something on the front of the tank about it being 'Containment Class' and 'Risk' but I assume that's because it was used for a venomous species before unless this rating is also given to constrictors.
A few comments wrt to Rohain's post today,
Scaffolding was being errected on the full length inside of the hunting Dogs enclosure a week or so ago. .Some nearby areas used to store materials for or removed from the enclosure. All the screening look like simply resused screens.
There are no african hunting dogs at London currently - hence the opportunity to work on the enclosure.
Different Bokiboky are exhibited in both the lemur house and in the Rainforest enclosues..
Casson building tends to feature in ticketed meet Santa experience and some schools events this time of year.
Scaffolding was being errected on the full length inside of the hunting Dogs enclosure a week or so ago. .Some nearby areas used to store materials for or removed from the enclosure. All the screening look like simply resused screens.
There are no african hunting dogs at London currently - hence the opportunity to work on the enclosure.
Different Bokiboky are exhibited in both the lemur house and in the Rainforest enclosues..
Casson building tends to feature in ticketed meet Santa experience and some schools events this time of year.
London Zoo have officially announced the arrival of the Southern Darwin's frogs on their website - a total of 53 individuals, rescued from the Parque Tantauco forests in southern Chile, were brought to London. Some of the male frogs already had tadpoles present in their vocal sacs on collection.
The frogs have all been screened and are clear of chytrid fungus, which had caused a devastating 90% drop in their population in the forest, which was a major part of the reason for bringing the frogs to London.
The article can be read here:
Endangered Darwin’s Frogs, rescued from deadly fungus, arrive safely at London Zoo | London Zoo
The frogs have all been screened and are clear of chytrid fungus, which had caused a devastating 90% drop in their population in the forest, which was a major part of the reason for bringing the frogs to London.
The article can be read here:
Endangered Darwin’s Frogs, rescued from deadly fungus, arrive safely at London Zoo | London Zoo
There is a corn snake there in a vivarium on the left hand side, though I haven't seen it.
cornu aspersum
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Then it is probably that and I am most likely misremembering.
Typhlonectes
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Could it possibly be the zoos leftover Dumeril’s Boa?
cornu aspersum
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No, it definitely looks like a yellow anaconda and even if it isn't one, it won't be a Dumeril's boa.
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