And Tree Shrews have appeared in the old butterfly exhibit in the invertebrate house, mixed with Roulroul Partridges.
Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens Cotswold Wildlife Park news 2009
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The two femal white rhino have been chosen and are in quarantine ready for shipment, here is an exctract from the parks website.
June 2009
The Park's Curator Jamie Craig travelled to Africa this month to choose our two new female Rhino for arrival later this year
In June, I was lucky enough to visit South Africa to select our two new female White Rhino. These animals are bred in game farms throughout South Africa and need to be relocated once numbers have increased beyond the holding capacity.
Our animals are being held at Mafunyane Game Farm in a designated quarantine facility. Both are around three and a half to four years old and appear in perfect health. Once various health tests have been carried out, we can look forward to their arrival at the Park towards the end of the summer. It will be fascinating to see what our two males; Bull and Monty make of their new enclosure mates!
June 2009
The Park's Curator Jamie Craig travelled to Africa this month to choose our two new female Rhino for arrival later this year
In June, I was lucky enough to visit South Africa to select our two new female White Rhino. These animals are bred in game farms throughout South Africa and need to be relocated once numbers have increased beyond the holding capacity.
Our animals are being held at Mafunyane Game Farm in a designated quarantine facility. Both are around three and a half to four years old and appear in perfect health. Once various health tests have been carried out, we can look forward to their arrival at the Park towards the end of the summer. It will be fascinating to see what our two males; Bull and Monty make of their new enclosure mates!
Paulkarli08
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Yes it is. Kifaru was a nice sounding African name, alot better suited to the rhino than Monty!
It seems the rhinos will arrive just 0.8 years before reaching (precoscious) sexual maturity! I have a lingering hope that old male Bull might still become a founder dad!
He just might with new young females to stimulate interest. Is he the survivor of their original 1.2 animals?
'Bull' is indeed one of the three original white rhinos at Cotswold Wildlife Park.
'Paddy' also known as 'Ukoko' was a different animal; she was one of the original females.
Bwassa
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Morelet's Crocs
Have just returned from a visit. Haven't been for nearly 3 years, there's been a lot of new developments since we were last there.
Added 6 new species to the photo collection: African Openbill Storks, Great Blue Turaco, White-browed Coucal, Trinidad Piping Guan, Red-Bellied Lemur, and Crowned Sifaka.
I was told they have another Sifaka male in Quarantine, and are going to put him in the enclosed part of the exhibit, and move the current male into the walk-through part.
Nothing has been started on the future wolverine exhibit yet, but it will be sited on the right just before you walk into the pheasant area, next to the current stork and ibis aviary.
I have a question about the Morelet's Crocodiles. When we last visited, there were 3 of them. This time I could only see 2: one was sunning itself on the bank at the far right of the exhibit, and a much larger animal ( the male ?) was in the pool. Have they moved one on elsewhere ?
Also, what has happened to the large Water Monitor they had opposite the Reticulated Python exhibit ? They had moved the Green Anacondas into this exhibit.
Have just returned from a visit. Haven't been for nearly 3 years, there's been a lot of new developments since we were last there.
Added 6 new species to the photo collection: African Openbill Storks, Great Blue Turaco, White-browed Coucal, Trinidad Piping Guan, Red-Bellied Lemur, and Crowned Sifaka.
I was told they have another Sifaka male in Quarantine, and are going to put him in the enclosed part of the exhibit, and move the current male into the walk-through part.
Nothing has been started on the future wolverine exhibit yet, but it will be sited on the right just before you walk into the pheasant area, next to the current stork and ibis aviary.
I have a question about the Morelet's Crocodiles. When we last visited, there were 3 of them. This time I could only see 2: one was sunning itself on the bank at the far right of the exhibit, and a much larger animal ( the male ?) was in the pool. Have they moved one on elsewhere ?
Also, what has happened to the large Water Monitor they had opposite the Reticulated Python exhibit ? They had moved the Green Anacondas into this exhibit.
zoogiraffe
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1 of the female left the collection due to aggression within the trio,as for Sal the Salvator Monitor he left the collection when Mark Ormond left Cotswold to work for Nigel Marvin,sadly he died late last year a very old Monitor.
zoogiraffe
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All i know is it went back to its owner.
Cotswold Wildlife Park.
Warty Pigs now on display in old peccary enclosure.Very vocal!
Peccary have had two more piglets.Two adults moved on?
Vulture cages (x2) now occupied and looking very good.
Two female reindeer now in off display still with llamas.
Striped skunks now in old coati enclosure in walled garden.This was after
Priarie marmots and Agoutis were tried there.Agoutis esaped each night.They
are being kept in the mongoose enclosure by the zebras at present.
New wolverine construction much advanced and looking good.
Ostiches moved to old black buck enclosure and have started to lay
eggs.
Girraffe enclosure site now started-old ostich house area flatten progress
slow.
Warty Pigs now on display in old peccary enclosure.Very vocal!
Peccary have had two more piglets.Two adults moved on?
Vulture cages (x2) now occupied and looking very good.
Two female reindeer now in off display still with llamas.
Striped skunks now in old coati enclosure in walled garden.This was after
Priarie marmots and Agoutis were tried there.Agoutis esaped each night.They
are being kept in the mongoose enclosure by the zebras at present.
New wolverine construction much advanced and looking good.
Ostiches moved to old black buck enclosure and have started to lay
eggs.
Girraffe enclosure site now started-old ostich house area flatten progress
slow.
Giraffe's been in the lining for a while now, they expect it to be the biggest thing they've undertaken. Other plans lined up after this in the 2008 newsletter, along with the wolverine enclosure, was an aquarium and penguin enclosure renovation - any news of these?
Also, is there any chances of the pallas cat going on show anytime soon?
Also, is there any chances of the pallas cat going on show anytime soon?
The male sifaka currently in a cage in the corner of Madagascar should be entering the main walk-through soon, I think that will make it the only place where you can get so close to this fabulous animal. A second male is in quarantine, but I don't know if that means it is in the park already, or awaited. I thought the walk-through was really well planted and the addition of birds (gallinule and night heron) was an imaginitive move. I thought it was going to be bigger though. They have an impressive 8 lemur species, and they don't even have red or BW ruffed anymore.
No-one's mentioned the African open-billed storks, are they a recent arrival? Very rare in zoos and I don't recall having seen them before. There was also a juvenile Fijian banded iguana.
I must say the gardens of CWP looked stunning yesterday and it is one of Britain's nicest zoos to amble around.
No-one's mentioned the African open-billed storks, are they a recent arrival? Very rare in zoos and I don't recall having seen them before. There was also a juvenile Fijian banded iguana.
I must say the gardens of CWP looked stunning yesterday and it is one of Britain's nicest zoos to amble around.