Edinburgh Zoo Polar Bear

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greyone

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Hi, Can someone tell me if Edinburgh still have their polar bear?
Also do they have any other rare animals in the uk?
Koalas?
 
Edinburgh's Polar Bear will shortly be moving to the Highland Wildlife Park

If you have a quick browse of the Edinburgh or Highland Wildlife Park sub-forums, then it is discussed in more detail in there
 
greyone said:
Hi, Can someone tell me if Edinburgh still have their polar bear?
Also do they have any other rare animals in the uk?
Koalas?
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Why dont you look on the Edinburgh zoo website (all you have to do is google it) there you can see which species they keep :)
 
Hello greyone welcome to the forum

Edinburgh zoo still has one fairly elderly polar bear called Mercedes, who is due to move to the highland wildlife park in a few months time.
There is one other polar bear kept in the Uk, but this is in a private zoo in Oxfordshire.

Edinburgh zoo has a lot of rare animals in its collection, the stand out species for me are

koala
aye aye
gelada baboon
drill
purple faced langur
giant anteater
wolverine
ratel (due to be moved to another zoo)
European otter
Pallas cat
Amur leopard
Sumatran tiger
Asian lion
Indian rhino
Malayan tapir
vicuna
Siberian musk deer
white lipped deer
Bawean deer
lesser kudu
Kirk's dik dik
nyala

Australian cassowary
Darwin's rhea
white naped crane
blue crane
Steller's sea eagle
lady Ross touraco
Victoria crowned pigeon
Socorro dove.

And of course the world famous group of penguins.

I hope that answers a little of your question, and again welcome to the site


P.S To members of zoochat, please try and remember that newcomers to the site have not read all the threads as existing members have done.
Chinese grey goral
 
Current ISIS listings:

Gentoo: 61.74.26
Rockhopper (ssp moseleyi, which ISIS now seems to have as a full species): 12.6.2
King: 8.2


Which I make to be 191 penguins.
 
Doddy said:
Why is there group of penguins "world famous"???
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They were the first to breed king and gentoo penguins. They have the largest outdoor enclosure in Europe and they are famous for the daily penguin parade which has been going on since the 1950's.
 
Mr Gelada said:
Does anyone know what will happen to Mercedes old enclosure after she heads to the Highland
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I did hear that in the short term, it will be used for the pair of European otter, but now that the macaques have reclaimed their rock, where are the otters held now?

I can see this enclosure being netted over and being used for the zoos pair of jaguar, it sits ideally close to the magic forest and living links creating a mini south American area or trail.
But this is just my opinion, not based on anything except my vivid imagination!
 
OOh i heard a rumour the jaguars might be going to the animal attraction in Glasgow hope not as would like to see them in that area of the zoo : - )
 
kiang said:
I did hear that in the short term, it will be used for the pair of European otter, but now that the macaques have reclaimed their rock, where are the otters held now?

The otters are now housed in one of the duck ponds, as is the beaver, hence why this area of the park is off-limits while the new residents settle in
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