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Designaka said:
However Woburn did have the closely related Hangul back then. It was not recorded as breeding but as most of the 11th Duke of Bedford's deer were unfortunately allowed to interbreed there might still be some hangul blood in the mix to this day.
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I believe the Hangul had to be kept in grassless yards or paddocks as being a high altitude species they were susceptible to parasitic infection picked up from grazing used by other Deer. I don't know if they were ever kept in the main park however before it was discovered they had special requirements. Its an interesting point whether/how many of these unusual subspecies may have interbred with other deer kept there
 
Pertinax said:
I believe the Hangul had to be kept in grassless yards or paddocks as being a high altitude species they were susceptible to parasitic infection picked up from grazing used by other Deer. I don't know if they were ever kept in the main park however before it was discovered they had special requirements. Its an interesting point whether/how many of these unusual subspecies may have interbred with other deer kept there
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Affirmative. It is climatic in origin. The southern nations are more suitable to breeding high altitude deer due to drier environments.

I would advocate several species of threatened red deer/Eurasian wapiti/elk be integrated into the EEP TAG for deer. Amongst these hangul, shou, Bactrian and Yarkand deer.
 
Hi Cottoni, is there anything you could tell me about the wolf enclosure at woburn and the wolves themselves. I'm in the middle of writing my dissertation on the wolves at Longleat so it would be interesting to compare. I've heard their enclosure also contains the bears, how do they respond to that? Any information would be great.
Thanks, hope you're enjoying the job.
 
I can tell u a little bit of information regarding the wolves, yes they do share their enclosure with north american black bears, they get on fine, the wolves do tend to steal the bears fish when the keepers are feeding the bears.

Kiang; i can confirm that that woburn have 1.1 mhorr gazelle
 
Referring back to the impressive collection of deer in the past at Woburn, it would be interesting to DNA test the roe deer population around Woburn to see if the Siberan and Chinese animals hybridised with local animals.
 
tetrapod said:
it would be interesting to DNA test the roe deer population around Woburn to see if the Siberan and Chinese animals hybridised with local animals.
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I'll bet they did..;) provided they survived long enough. But coming from much colder but drier climates they may well have succumbed quite quickly to the milder, wetter climate here?
 
Yeah the mhorr have been at Woburn a while now at least a year, but the female came around 6 months ago maybe a little longer
 
EmmaE said:
Yeah the mhorr have been at Woburn a while now at least a year, but the female came around 6 months ago maybe a little longer
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Affirmative, I MEANT the pairing. I expect more unrelated females will be added when these become available. I assume Woburn under Jack V. will become an active partner in the SCF projects with these and addax et al.
 
Yeah Jake has many plans for breeding programs at Woburn, and i know there's new animals coming in to fulfill this plans!
 
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