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jordan-12 said:
Excellent news,intresting to know that he's the first pure-bred to be born.
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Well its the first pure-bred to be born in the park because they have 2 Giraffe enclosures,one that has Pure Baringos and the other that has Hybrid Giraffes,and it was the hybrid group that has bred in the past at the park!!!
 
I knew of the other Hybrid's as Penny an ex Chester speciemen is there,do they hold a male Hybrid there or just all females?
 
A shortlist of 5 names for the giraffe calf has been made from suggestions by viewers of ITV's Daybreak.

Lofty
Goliath
Rufous (different spelling but missed it)
Rodney
William
 
Hope this is of interest to Parrots Andrew, Bubbles and co., according to the Flamingo Land web site the zoo part of the park is open to the public from Saturday February 11th until Sunday February 19th, it will also be open on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of February, it does not state admission prices however I am sure it will be a lot less than what it is during the season when the full park is open, could be worth a visit for anyone who only wants to visit the zoo and not go on the rides.
 
TARZAN said:
Hope this is of interest to Parrots Andrew, Bubbles and co., according to the Flamingo Land web site the zoo part of the park is open to the public from Saturday February 11th until Sunday February 19th, it will also be open on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of February, it does not state admission prices however I am sure it will be a lot less than what it is during the season when the full park is open, could be worth a visit for anyone who only wants to visit the zoo and not go on the rides.
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It's £5, I'm going on the 19th.:)
 
TARZAN said:
Hope this is of interest to Parrots Andrew, Bubbles and co., according to the Flamingo Land web site the zoo part of the park is open to the public from Saturday February 11th until Sunday February 19th, it will also be open on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of February, it does not state admission prices however I am sure it will be a lot less than what it is during the season when the full park is open, could be worth a visit for anyone who only wants to visit the zoo and not go on the rides.
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Thank you for that. Think I'll try and pop along on one of those dates.
 
TARZAN said:
Hope this is of interest to Parrots Andrew, Bubbles and co., according to the Flamingo Land web site the zoo part of the park is open to the public from Saturday February 11th until Sunday February 19th, it will also be open on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of February, it does not state admission prices however I am sure it will be a lot less than what it is during the season when the full park is open, could be worth a visit for anyone who only wants to visit the zoo and not go on the rides.
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Thanks Tarzan - Bubbles had already given me the good tidings and I'm hoping to go next Friday weather permitting. Many thanks anyway though.
 
Jordan-Jaguar97 said:
Does anybody know where the old Polar Bear/Brown Bear enclosure is/were? I want to photograph it on Sunday.
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I'll just reply here before I reply to your PM Jordan. There's not really any of the old Bear exhibit left to photograph, all you can do is photograph where it stood. If you walk past the Parrotsphere from the direction of the Bird Show theatre you will come to the Emu paddock on your right. The first part of the paddock is where the Bears were. The end of the exhibit was a high wall for most of its existence, but it was opened up in its final years. For a view facing the old exhibit you have to turn right to go over the bridge over the Flamingo Lake (the Flamingos have only half of it now, the other half serving the South American paddock), but you are quite a distance from where the Bear exhibit started.
 
Parrotsandrew said:
I'll just reply here before I reply to your PM Jordan. There's not really any of the old Bear exhibit left to photograph, all you can do is photograph where it stood. If you walk past the Parrotsphere from the direction of the Bird Show theatre you will come to the Emu paddock on your right. The first part of the paddock is where the Bears were. The end of the exhibit was a high wall for most of its existence, but it was opened up in its final years. For a view facing the old exhibit you have to turn right to go over the bridge over the Flamingo Lake (the Flamingos have only half of it now, the other half serving the South American paddock), but you are quite a distance from where the Bear exhibit started.
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Thanks Andrew. I wanted to photograph the old Bear area as it was the first place I saw my first and only Polar Bear, Mandy, when did she die? I'm looking forward to going back after my last visit seven years ago.
 
As far as I remember Mandy died in 2004 a week or two before the park opened for the season. Marcus had died on 14th November 1998 whilst meeting a Polar Bear enthusiast whose birthday treat this was. I was visiting the park that day (the first autumn/winter season for 20 years) and saw his body covered by a tarpaulin. A couple were telling their granddaughter the Bear was asleep under a blanket and she was jumping up and down saying "it's a dead Bear, it's a dead Bear".
 
Parrotsandrew said:
As far as I remember Mandy died in 2004 a week or two before the park opened for the season. Marcus had died on 14th November 1998 whilst meeting a Polar Bear enthusiast whose birthday treat this was. I was visiting the park that day (the first autumn/winter season for 20 years) and saw his body covered by a tarpaulin. A couple were telling their granddaughter the Bear was asleep under a blanket and she was jumping up and down saying "it's a dead Bear, it's a dead Bear".
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Thanks Andrew. I do remember seeing Marcus calling to Mandy when I was about nine months old my mother said, I was crying.
 
Presumably one or both of the above were my first and (so far) only Polar Bears, as I have vague memories of seeing the species at Flamingoland in the early 90s.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Presumably one or both of the above were my first and (so far) only Polar Bears, as I have vague memories of seeing the species at Flamingoland in the early 90s.
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Yes, Marcus and Mandy arrived from Thorney in 1978 after that collection's closure. Maybe you could have seen one or more of their cubs as well though.
 
Jordan-Jaguar97 said:
Thanks Andrew. I wanted to photograph the old Bear area as it was the first place I saw my first and only Polar Bear, Mandy, when did she die? I'm looking forward to going back after my last visit seven years ago.
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Jordan, I've just posted a longish distance photograph of the Bear exhibit I took in 2001. I thought it would maybe help you get your bearings (no pun intended). It was taken with my back to the Baboon Island. The area on the other side of the path is now the Emu paddock I mentioned.
 
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