I hope when we go we see one of the Margay, saw none last year and 1 the year before, but didn't have a brilliant camera so didn't get a piccie 
. One of the little gem species at WMZ.
. One of the little gem species at WMZ.Welsh Mountain Zoo Welsh Mountain Zoo
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Jordan-Jaguar97
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A baby Bactrian Camel named Delilah has been born.
LeeMac13
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Popped in for a visit on Friday. There are now two European Brown Bears not sure what happened to the third one. The female Alligator is nesting. The zoo now does a bird display show featuring a barn owl, Harrier Hawk and two Parrots aswell as the usually penguin parade across the brow of the hillside.
Fallow deer are now kept with the Prewelski horses. The zoo is currently fundraising for a new tropical house and has a collection tin outside the current tropical house. The former artic fox exhibit has now been turned into a flowerbed.
Fallow deer are now kept with the Prewelski horses. The zoo is currently fundraising for a new tropical house and has a collection tin outside the current tropical house. The former artic fox exhibit has now been turned into a flowerbed.
The zoo now does a bird display show featuring...two Parrots
I presume these are the sibling Blue and Yellow Macaws. This is undoubtedly the most spectacular sight in any British zoo - the majestic birds, the mountains, the sweep down to the sea.... An earthly paradise.
Going back to the (much) earlier comments on the accommodation for Macaws, I don't see anything at all wrong with the aviary for the Blue and Yellow Macaws, and the exhibit for "Frosty" and "Jazzy" near the Camels is one of my favourites anywhere. There is a notice explaining why they are kept in this way (I hope the exhibit is still there as I have not managed to visit in the last couple of years so I have not seen the new Macaw aviary or the new Parrots in the old, and excellent, one).
karoocheetah
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Frosty & Jazzy ???
Frosty and Jazzy are the hybrid Macaws that are brought out to the stand and barrel near the Camels. To quote part of the sign I mentioned:
"Frosty and Jazzy were bred here in the zoo - Frosty in 1986 and Jazzy in 2003. Frosty suffered injuries to his feet when he was young and we have been unable to return him to the large breeding aviary. Jazzy has had poor plumage condition since hatching and was taken out of the aviary for extra care and attention. She also provides company for the disabled Frosty.
They are brought out each day to enjoy the company of our visitors."
I certainly enjoy their company and spend ages gazing at them when I'm at the zoo, taking rather a lot of photos and film. I hope they are still there, I haven't seen anything in the Zoo Association newsletters to say otherwise. Oh, I wish I could get to the WMZ again! Parrot utopia.
"Frosty and Jazzy were bred here in the zoo - Frosty in 1986 and Jazzy in 2003. Frosty suffered injuries to his feet when he was young and we have been unable to return him to the large breeding aviary. Jazzy has had poor plumage condition since hatching and was taken out of the aviary for extra care and attention. She also provides company for the disabled Frosty.
They are brought out each day to enjoy the company of our visitors."
I certainly enjoy their company and spend ages gazing at them when I'm at the zoo, taking rather a lot of photos and film. I hope they are still there, I haven't seen anything in the Zoo Association newsletters to say otherwise. Oh, I wish I could get to the WMZ again! Parrot utopia.
karoocheetah
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Thanks for that
My pleasure. I'm looking at a photo of one of them in the barrel right now (it's a framed adoption photo on the wall, not one I took). I'd better stop dreaming about Frosty and Jazzy now as it's time I went to bed, maybe to dream about Frosty and Jazzy.
Mzungu, I think I'll have to check my newsletters - or is that cheating?
Nothing in any of this year's newsletters, maybe there will be something in the August one.
A Proboscis Monkey encounter!!!! Or perhaps one involving some kind of creature from Madagascar?
karoocheetah
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Welsh Mountain Zoo - North Wales Snowdonia attraction
Lemur walk through I'm afraid! - No nosey primates :O)
Lemur walk through I'm afraid! - No nosey primates :O)
It's really hard to get excited about another lemur walkthrough these days, isn't it?
It'll be good and marketable for them though, so I understand going for it. On a personal level, I really hope the 'two species' mentioned don't end up being Ring-tailed and Black-and-White Ruffed... let's have something more interesting, WMZ!
It'll be good and marketable for them though, so I understand going for it. On a personal level, I really hope the 'two species' mentioned don't end up being Ring-tailed and Black-and-White Ruffed... let's have something more interesting, WMZ!
karoocheetah
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Sifaka and Mouse Lemurs!! :O) that appeals to my sense of fun
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Just clicked on the zoo news link. I don't mind the Lemurs, but I don't like "news" with a "z" or the use of metric measurements!! I am going to resist ranting about anything. Actually I quite like Lemur walk-throughs, especially the one at Yorkshire Wildlife Park - a lovely piece of woodland.
While I sympathise entirely on news with a 'z', as someone raised on metric I have to stick up for a system that, unlike Imperial, is actually based on some kind of predictable, logical system!
I guess it's just a case of what you're used to but metric is so much easier to pick up and doesn't involve learning a new set of numbers when you change from mass to distance, for example, or, for that matter, from the UK to the US - it's always powers-of-ten. 1760 yards to a mile is not a very mathematically instinctive number! 1000m to 1km means you can switch between them just by shifting the decimal point - 787m is 0.787km.
24,528m is 24.528km. How many miles are 24,528 yards? Five minutes of maths later, you'll have an answer. Anywho, as I say - it's just what a case of what you're used to at the end of the day.
Back to the scheduled lemur discussion.
Attached is a photo of the construction (from last Sunday) on the old wallaby paddock, a site with a very steep incline. In fact, it looks like they're building a ski slope.
I'd much rather see them bulldoze the terrible snow leopard, spider monkey or gibbon cages before they spent money - donated or otherwise - on yet another lemur walk-through.
I'd much rather see them bulldoze the terrible snow leopard, spider monkey or gibbon cages before they spent money - donated or otherwise - on yet another lemur walk-through.
