cerperal
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Did you manage to see the progress on the new hippo house?
The tortoises are definitely a great addition to the walkthrough, given the porcupines are always either asleep or in their house. Sounds like a good day!
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The tortoises are definitely a great addition to the walkthrough, given the porcupines are always either asleep or in their house. Sounds like a good day!
Springbok
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I took a ride on the railway today and noticed the main building still had a part of the roof that needs to be added
Provided Longleat is their destination, this is what I presumed they would get, two more females to give an initial group of 4. From the European hippo list, these two are full sisters born in 2020 and 21. No names given. Interestingly the other breeding female at Dvur is Whipsnade-bred.
Rajang-GOAT
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Great news, sounds like they won't arrive much later than Lola and Hodor who are moving over from Whipsnade next month! Hopefully Longleat will have a nice sized group in the near future and in the coming years these two females will successfully breed, making the pod an excellent display.
Lafone
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Unless they transfer her somewhere else then I assume she would stay in a non breeding role, given her son is the breeding male.
Springbok
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Visited today for Steve Backshall LIVE, and I was impressed with the show; many different animals to last year. Species displayed today were:
-Burmese Python
- yellow tailed cribo
- eastern indigo snake
-red footed falcon
-six banded armadillo
-striped skunk
-harris hawk
-great grey owl
-yellow tailed kite
-black kite
-Mangrove monitor
-binturong
Another thing to mention:
-Great Green Macaw are now signed along with the other parrots, and indeed I saw a pair. I will update ZTL.
EDIT: forgot this in the original post, but there was also a black throated monitor in the show.
-Burmese Python
- yellow tailed cribo
- eastern indigo snake
-red footed falcon
-six banded armadillo
-striped skunk
-harris hawk
-great grey owl
-yellow tailed kite
-black kite
-Mangrove monitor
-binturong
Another thing to mention:
-Great Green Macaw are now signed along with the other parrots, and indeed I saw a pair. I will update ZTL.
EDIT: forgot this in the original post, but there was also a black throated monitor in the show.
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According to Facebook Palo and Santo the 2 new Green Winged Macaws has just arrived as part of the European Breeding Programme
Taken from social media. Great news
A critically endangered white-backed vulture chick has been born at Longleat!
Our dedicated keepers incubated the egg and returned it to their parents after hatching. If this chick survives, it will be the first in more than 10 years to be successfully reared at the Safari Park, and one of just five chicks raised in the European breeding programme over the last 12 months. The species has faced mass poisoning in recent weeks in their native South Africa, so this little one's birth is not just an achievement for us, but a positive step in boosting their population.
A critically endangered white-backed vulture chick has been born at Longleat!
Our dedicated keepers incubated the egg and returned it to their parents after hatching. If this chick survives, it will be the first in more than 10 years to be successfully reared at the Safari Park, and one of just five chicks raised in the European breeding programme over the last 12 months. The species has faced mass poisoning in recent weeks in their native South Africa, so this little one's birth is not just an achievement for us, but a positive step in boosting their population.
Could she not move up to Dvur Kralove in exchange or Ostrava, the studbook keeper for common hippo?
Her exact date of birth is unknown as she was wild born, but she's estimated to be about 71 years of age now.
thought they had hatched vulture chicks before but they both passed
Think they have hatched Vultures in the past but guessing they're a different species
Looking her age earlier this week when i visited. But she was actually using her outdoor enclosure which i haven't seen her do on a few previous visits which was nice and she can still shift at a reasonable pace as she demonstrated when a sudden rain downpour landed. No sign of any companion animals with her either, think she used to have some goats mixed in with her.
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cerperal
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They started in effect end-of-life care for her around 2 years ago, so I would guess if the goats are gone they were removed in relation to that (as was floated as an idea previously) but equally they could just have been hidden or temporarily removed I suppose.
She does look very old indeed, but it's a credit to the fantastic work Longleat have done that she still looks healthy and as you say still maintains most of her mobility. She's aged very quickly I'd say, as only a few years ago when I last saw her she was far fuller in her build. Hopefully she still has some good time in her yet, surely she must be nearing the oldest elephant in the world?
Not bad for an arthritic circus elephant