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A second koala has been born at the zoo.
The animals in the Asian plains exhibit are now out on show.
 
Fidji the female Giant Anteater will move to Port Lyme in the UK soon. She will be paired with the park's resident male, Zen who came from Warsaw in 2009.
 
i believe it will be howletts, not port lympne, as Howletts are the aspinall park that keep anteater
 
Just a quick question for those of you at Parc du Beuval (or in the Loire River area): I've been wanting to plan another European zoo trip all year, but my personal schedule has not allowed it. Now it appears that a window has opened up for me in mid- to late November. I would like to visit this zoo (and others) during this time, but (in your opinion) does the November weather make it not not worth the trip? Some local input would be invaluable in helping me plan my trip. Thanks!
 
ANyhuis said:
does the November weather make it not not worth the trip?
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The winter weather in the eastern Loire area can be a little damp and murky, and the days will be relatively short, but really there should be nothing to deter the avid zoo-goer.

Amongst the gems at this excellent zoo are several big greenhouses - birds; orangs, reptiles and various small primates; gorillas and manatees; Australian beasts. These will not be hampered by the weather. I'm not sure what the policy is n the African exhibit in the winter - the animals may be kept inside when it is damp - but this is a wonderful exhibit.

An hour or so west is the also fantastic Doue la Fontaine - a rather unique zoo, really worth seeing.
 
Alexpe8 on zoonaute is reporting that Beauval zoo is expecting 2 okapi to arrive in the next few weeks from Dallas zoo, USA.
Can anyone confirm?
 
Two female African elephants are pregnant, both pregnant females M'Bili and M'Dala were impregnated using AI and sperm from wild elephants.
The calves are due in the summer of 2012 .

A new Himalayan exhibit is also scheduled to open this year too, featuring amongst others snow leopards, red pandas, entellus langurs, muntjac deer and mishmi takin (possibly mixed with markhor).

Source Actu'zoo
 
There was a report on German television in October or November on artificial insemination indicating a female was pregnant. Beauval had left South Africa to harvest wild sperm

Sorry for my english.

Here's the plan of new Himalayan exhibit. It was aired on Planète TV
 
I can't figure out where exactly this new Himalayan section would be placed. Can anyone explain it?

@Yoman35: Est-ce que tu peux expliquer où exactément dans le zooparc il se trouve, cette nouvelle section d'himalaya? Est-il à côté de rhinozeros indiennes?
 
Thanks Yoman35

By the way: I saw on the former zoonaute forum a discussion about bringing Giant Pandas to Beauval.

Is there a real chance or is this just a rumor?
 
Possible but if it's true, I do not agree on how. We should be happy but nobody talks about it (Press) because it is as well an animal star. Canada will have pandas, they talk.
The rumor has been going on for years

Waiting for the next months
 
A recent visitor to Beauval Zoo raved to me about the impressive collection (4,000 animals) and for the most part above average exhibitry present all over the zoo. On his visit he saw at least 9 hyenas, 5 elephants in a 5 hectare exhibit, 5 manatees, a large collection of primates, over 100 Humboldt penguins, etc. From what I've heard this is a superb zoo, but why is it that the ZooChat gallery only has a measly 35 photos of such a glorious collection? Does no one visit the place from this forum, or did most of the photos get deleted last year?
 
snowleopard said:
Does no one visit the place from this forum, or did most of the photos get deleted last year?
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A few of the unlooked-at photos may have gone, but there are still some interesting ones to be seen. A picture of the hyena group adorns the front cover of the latest edition of International Zoo News, in which there is a thorough review of the zoo, and others in the north-western corner of France. Very good it is too! The zoo's by no means flawless, and I think that, given your oft-proclaimed taste for a certain sort of zoo exhibit, it might not be wholly up your alley, but the collection is fantastic and the enclosures mostly rather excellent.
 
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