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jelle said:
What is the plan bongorob? No anoa in the long term? If so, why not move them out to a collection that is likely to want to breed them. They are not exactly unendangered me thinks!
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The problem is obtaining unrelated stock and exporting surplus males. I can't remember the details but it seems to have become much harder to export anoa from the UK to the continent. The last male anoa to be bred at Chester was hard to place, in the end I think he went to West Midlands Safari Park. Apparently there is not much interest in this species. Chester's pair have reared three males and they do not have the space to keep a bachelor group. It will be a shame if anoas disappear from UK zoos due to lack of interest.
 
Chester do have room

1. The old Lechwe paddock
2. An Empty paddock between the rhinos and the watefowl and pelicans
3. The paddock near the Oryx and Zebra
 
Yes, but they are planning to keep anoa in a smilar area to where they are now, if we are to follow the plans, so moving them over to the other side of the zoo may not be such a good idea.

The upside is that the keepers that look after the anoa also look after the spectacled bears, so if they were put near the zebra, it wouldn't be a huge distance to walk.
 
i know this is a little off topic, but it is not worthy of its own thread. Speaking of keepers in the post above, i was just wondering which team look after the animals like the Squireels, Tree Shrews and Rodents in the Secret World.
 
ZooMania you are quite right in listing those empty enclosures, I was told there was no room for anoas by a keeper.

1. should have been used for the addax
2. is supposedly part of the black rhino accommodation
3. the oryx and zebra often use that area.

The last male to be born at Chester was housed next to the onagers for a short while in 2006. This was where the red river hogs were first kept.

What was probably meant was there was no suitable enclosure to move surplus anoa into, all the areas mentioned are fairly open enclosures.

Hopefully the pair currently on the island will live there for many years yet, while the zoo management make up their minds what to do with this species.
 
ZooMania said:
i thought they had a female sumatran ready.
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The sister of the animal from Dudley was origanally going to be coming as well but she was sent else where before he left to come to Chester.The Chester Evening Leader said the zoo was hoping to run him with the 2 Female Bengals over the winter!!!!!!!!
 
The Addax are a no go at the moment so don`t expect to see them in the near future,they were suppose to get the ones from Edinburgh but their were conditions that were not exceptable to the head of the Giraffe section that would be looking after them,so they said no to them.Then they where to get a pair from Stuttgart but then the Blue tongue out break happened and put a stop to them coming in,the last hoofstock animal to come from Europe since the Blue tongue out break was the young male Malayan Tapir at Twycross.
 
what were the conditions imposed by edinburgh that were so unacceptable
 
kiang said:
what were the conditions imposed by edinburgh that were so unacceptable
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All via 1 are not considered to be gentically important by the stud book co-ordinator as a result Chester would have to do something with health animals,that they didn`t agree with.
 
zoogiraffe said:
The Addax are a no go at the moment so don`t expect to see them in the near future,they were suppose to get the ones from Edinburgh but their were conditions that were not exceptable to the head of the Giraffe section that would be looking after them,so they said no to them.
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Could the Addax now at Woburn be these same animals?
 
zoogiraffe said:
All via 1 are not considered to be gentically important by the stud book co-ordinator as a result Chester would have to do something with health animals,that they didn`t agree with.
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So you're saying that Chester won't keep animals that may produce young they are required to cull?
 
grantsmb said:
Could the Addax now at Woburn be these same animals?
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No Edinburgh has still got them as far as i`m aware,but i can rember seeing Addax at Woburn at least 4 years a go although they were not in avery good place to view them as they were partial off show
 
I figure the Addax at Woburn need a hard standing ground exhibit.

Perhaps this Ungulate Conservation Center will put the back on the map and show.
 
jelle said:
I figure the Addax at Woburn need a hard standing ground exhibit.
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Yes, unfortunately they are in a grass paddock which isn't very suitable.

Similarly the Arabian Oryx at Whipsnade are now in an antelope house(in adjacent stalls to the Bongo) which has access to a large grass paddock, though this is really the Bongo's. The oryx seem to be confined to a concrete hardstanding yard adjoining the house.. At London they were a main display and kept on a good hard substrate. Now they have been moved to Whipsnade they will probably just be forgotten about..
 
EXACTLY the same as Marwell. Only a few years ago the Arabian oryx was picture postcard for zoo conservation programmes, now the few remaining in the UK seem to reside in little hardstand yards at whipsnade and marwell, with a couple on grass at Folly Farm and Africa Alive. London really did have a good enclosure for this species, I guess they just weren't 'sexy' enough to stay. It's so strange when zoos 'demote' species to inferior exhibits when their purpose(s) is/are served.
 
Are we down to four colletions really??

I Dont see why they coudnt have stayed at London, they are an african species arent they??
 
Hadley said:
It's so strange when zoos 'demote' species to inferior exhibits when their purpose(s) is/are served.
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At Whipsnade they are now occupy the stalls at the far end of a long antelope house which also houses the Bongo. I'll bet very few visitors ever bother to go in this house or if they do, walk to the far end of it... The hardstanding they use is also well back from the paddock fence so they are virtually 'invisible' now.:(

Yet only a few years ago when they were on the Cotton terraces at ZSL, there were big display boards on how they'd been saved from extinction etc. How times change...
 
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