Marwell Wildlife My Monthly Updates 2009 #2

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Zambar

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19/07/09

It was the oryx club trail day day today, and as a gemsbok (the oldest age group within the club) I gave a hand helping the volunteers at a couple of the trail desks. I was however allowed to walk round the park as I wished, and spent most of the day doing so, taking my usual assortion of photos.

- Guess what? No black wildebeest on show. Oh, the annoying tension!
- More fence updating is being done in the gemsbok/gazelle paddock.
- Bat-Eared Fox still empty, but the renovations seem complete.
- Red-Crowned Crane enclosure empty.
- Four scimitar-horned oryx calves have now been born and are doing well.
- Two yellow mongoose kits have been born, but I didn't see them.
- Strangely, the Roof of the World red panda enclosure now has cusimanse in it, but I didn't see them.
- Speaking to Geoff Read (Head of Herps), he explained that the reason the windows in the Amphibian Centre get so steamy is due to poor air conditioning; the fan there is the one used in the old candy box shop, a building six times smaller. He also has the other four amphibian species reserved by London Zoo, but are yet to go on display.
- Very cute ostrich chicks hatched at the end of June and beginning of July are on show in the old pudu house; I presume these were from the African Valley clutch.
 
It's possibly Summer the Tapir - she was rumoured to be pregnant when the pair arrived in April, and on recent visits she's been quite fat with teets showing. But I guess we'll just have to wait!
 
kiang said:
Great pics Skoop

if ever a poster here was more appropriately named than Skoop i'd love to meet them:D:D
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Thanks!
As it happens we were planning to go to Marwell in about 2 weeks whilst stopping in the New Forest, so this will be an added bonus if I get to see the baby!:D
 
Absolutely fantastic! Marwell hasn't had a baby tapir in 14 years, and I'm glad all the speculating has paid off. Can't wait to see it; if the wildebeest are on show too when I go it'll be a real bonus! :D
 
I dont really like it think the one before was much better. this new one tells you nothing really about the animals that they have there i do think its good that the pictures change from human to animal but no one knows its Marwell till the end credit
 
zooman1 said:
I dont really like it think the one before was much better. this new one tells you nothing really about the animals that they have there i do think its good that the pictures change from human to animal but no one knows its Marwell till the end credit
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Very true, even thou I don't like Chester's advert at least they show the animals in the zoo to get people interested.
 
A few observations from today's visit to Marwell:

1) The tapir calf born on 21st July is really cute :)
2) As Marwell Dalek said, the cusimanses have moved into the old red panda enclosure in Roof of the World, but I didn't see any
3) The sand cats now have access to the old cusimanse enclosure in Aridlands
4) The golden-headed lion tamarins are now in the old pygmy marmoset enclosure opposite the fossas
5) A couple of emperor tamarins are now on the island in Black Swan Pond
6) The female Chapman's zebra foal who was born on 13th July is gorgeous - so great to see two foals running around the paddock this year
7) I saw the two yellow mongoose kittens and all four scimitar-horned oryx calves

It is lovely to see so many young animals in the park at the moment :D
 
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I also recieved an e-mail from Marwell today, and there is still no date for the wildebeest going on show as they are still awaiting test results.
 
Marwell Dalek said:
I also recieved an e-mail from Marwell today, and there is still no date for the wildebeest going on show as they are still awaiting test results.
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It must be agonising waiting or the magnificent black wildebeast to go on show (why dont you go to newquay if you are as impacient as myself :p )

I would of thought they would of gone through quarantine at newquay, so how come it seems like they are going through it again at marwell?
 
foz said:
It must be agonising waiting or the magnificent black wildebeast to go on show (why dont you go to newquay if you are as impacient as myself :p )
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It's funny you should say that ... I AM going to Newquay next weekend, so I WILL see the black wildebeest there (probably long before I see them at Marwell) :D
 
I was thinking, it would probably take me less time to grow a TARDIS to fly me back to 1972 to see Marwell's original black wildebeest trio then it would to wait for these ones to go on show. :p
 
Zoo News Digest report that a male and female Amur leopard born at Tallinn , Estonia , will be sent to Marwell . Could be mates for Marwell's young female and the young male at Twycross ?
 
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