Bristol Zoo (Closed) Bristol Zoo in the 1980s

Jersey along with Guernsey and the IOM is a crown dependency - not part of the UK and in fact not part of the EU either which is why you can get duty-free if you go there.
 
What concerns me is the statement that Bristol Zoo was the first place to breed aye-ayes in the world.
 
I've made a fool of myself!

gentle lemur said:
I don't remember seeing a pacarana - and I'm sure I wouldn't forget seeing a pacarana ;)
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As I was searching for my photos of Dudley's killer whale. What did I find? :eek:


[photo=2782;564;PacaranaBristol.jpg]Pacarana at Bristol[/photo]

I took it at Bristol on the 27th July 1983. It's not a wonderful photograph, but it's clearly a pacarana (with a bald tail). It was in the old Nocturnal House, above the Restaurant on the eastern (College) side of the zoo - where the insects are now. Obviously it was displayed under red light.
I also tried a B/W conversion with Photoshop which is rather nicer, but it makes it look as if the photo was taken in 1883!

[photo=2783;564;PacaranaBristolBW.jpg]Pacarana at Bristol (B/W version)[/photo]

I apologise to everyone for my bad memory :o My little grey cells have been letting me down :o

Alan
 
Hadley said:
There are several clips on youtube and google video of some tarsiers in captivity in some kind of open tropical house, maybe Singapore zoo (I'm not sure), being prodded and crowded by visitors. They are just clinging to the branches of this bush and are awake but don't seem to react much, it looks quite a recent video.
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those are all in the Philippines, I can't remember the place exactly (I suspect there are probably several tourist outfits that do this). The tarsiers are placed on the branches and are subjected to the usual tourist nonsense. They are probably semi-catatonic in the daylight and just freeze there hoping it will all go away. Their life expectancy in these places is very short.
 
Chlidonias said:
those are all in the Philippines, I can't remember the place exactly (I suspect there are probably several tourist outfits that do this). The tarsiers are placed on the branches and are subjected to the usual tourist nonsense. They are probably semi-catatonic in the daylight and just freeze there hoping it will all go away. Their life expectancy in these places is very short.
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Probably on Bohol, there is several places on this Island were you can go and watch "wild" Tarsiers during daytime, done it once myself and it was a truly sad sight. I enjoyed seeing them elsewhere on Bohol during the nights however.
 
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