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Sorry Mark,
It is running on an empty engine. Both bulls are way too young to breed. So really, there is no point in bringing in any females for them for now.
I will look at the continental situation shortly for Indian rhinos. I suppose new unrelated bulls are definitely needed, not those from within the EEP breeding programme (also way too young to breed). Will report back later in the Euro threadie!
black-star
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Asian male lion 'Kumar' is moved on 3 April '08 to Rotterdam Zoo.
This frees up space for Edinburgh Zoo to rebreed their lions and another set of cubs from the females.
black-star
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This frees up space for Edinburgh Zoo to rebreed their lions and another set of cubs from the females.
Yes, because the 2 other female's (Kyra and Asha) moved to Twycross Zoo at the end of March '08.
was there today wheres the bongos there was only 1 male there no others and there baby lemurs kodo and capabara also like the tree porcupines and the rainbow landings and new chimp house
poor mercades tho was swimming round and round in circles with people saying o look its doing its exercise poor thing
poor mercades tho was swimming round and round in circles with people saying o look its doing its exercise poor thing
Edinburgh Zoo: Chimps with everything - Science, News - The Independent
This is a great article on the new Budongo exhibit, which is supposedly the largest chimpanzee enclosure in the world. Many of us have been following the development for some time now, but the cool thing about this article is that it lists 5 great zoo exhibits that helped to inspire Edinburgh's designers.
This is a great article on the new Budongo exhibit, which is supposedly the largest chimpanzee enclosure in the world. Many of us have been following the development for some time now, but the cool thing about this article is that it lists 5 great zoo exhibits that helped to inspire Edinburgh's designers.
Another article, this time with a breakdown of the group and a great video of the habitat too.
Edinburgh Zoo: Chimps swing into action at new home - Scotsman.com News
Edinburgh Zoo: Chimps swing into action at new home - Scotsman.com News
@kiang: the article that you posted was very informative, and there is quite a range of ages in the 11 chimpanzees. The video was also interesting, but I still don't know the exact size of the exhibit. Does anyone have a number in terms of acres or hectares?
Its a nicely balanced group in termsw of sex ratio and ages. Its very important for groups to contain several adult males- as it mentions here they really prefer each other's company a lot of the time to that of the females.
What it doesn't mention is whether they are now on contraceptives, still being allowed to breed or how they plan to increase the group up to 40.
What it doesn't mention is whether they are now on contraceptives, still being allowed to breed or how they plan to increase the group up to 40.
http://culture.st-and.ac.uk/bcfs/documents/newsletter/BCFS2007a.pdf
Budongo Chimpanzee Exhibit:
324 sq. meters = internal area
14 meters = internal climbing height
1,985 = external sq. meters of planted space
1,400 sq. meters = entire building
What will be truly interesting is if the Edinburgh Zoo can significantly increase their annual attendance from 650,000 to over a million in 2008. The key will be to then sustain higher attendance figures for the years ahead.
Budongo Chimpanzee Exhibit:
324 sq. meters = internal area
14 meters = internal climbing height
1,985 = external sq. meters of planted space
1,400 sq. meters = entire building
What will be truly interesting is if the Edinburgh Zoo can significantly increase their annual attendance from 650,000 to over a million in 2008. The key will be to then sustain higher attendance figures for the years ahead.
Visited the zoo today, Budongo is amazing, have posted some pics on the gallery, but they do it no justice, it is awesome, 3 fantastic indoor areas, a lot of interpretation, very child friendly.
I am not a chimpanzee fan, but before i knew it half an hour had passed by, the outdoor enclosure is still being worked on.
The 2 pairs of ocellated turkey were on show, one pair in the aviaries behind the rhino enclosure and another pair in with 4 vulturine guineafowl behind the polar bear.
The 2 nyala calves were in the African plains exhibit.
The living links exhibit was not open as yet, although the capuchins and squirrel monkeys have been moved out of the monkey house.
The aye aye and drill were still in the monkey house, though the drills are shown on the zoo map as being in the old gorilla house.
The last group of quarantined Japanese macaque have now vacated the macaque enclosure next to the monkey house, and according to a sign on the enclosure, it is now going to be developed for birds.
The yellow breasted capuchins and purple faced langurs now have 2 enclosures each in the monkey house.
The adult male Malayan tapir has been moved to the warthog enclosure, as there has been conflict with the male calf.
The pair of North American porcupine are now in the former red panda enclosure, as with the previous inhabitants they seem to prefer the highest branch in the highest tree!
The Darwin's rhea have been moved to the enclosure next to the Bactrian camel, two of the marabou stork have been moved into the Waldrapp ibis aviary and the black stork has been moved to the netted duck pond along with a hammerkop and two juvenile white naped crane.
There was only one male bongo on show.
The rainbow landings exhibit, now when i walked into this house, my first impression in the foyer was cinema foyer meets supermarket, it was very stark and formal not what i expected.
The main exhibit for some reason felt to me like a 10 year old exhibit, like it had been here for years, don't ask me why, there were the rainbow lorikeets putting on a fine show, in a side enclosure were a pair of long nosed potoroo, and in an aviary spanning the length of the enclosure was a Victoria crowned pigeon, Nicobar pigeons and blue faced honeyeater.
I am not a chimpanzee fan, but before i knew it half an hour had passed by, the outdoor enclosure is still being worked on.
The 2 pairs of ocellated turkey were on show, one pair in the aviaries behind the rhino enclosure and another pair in with 4 vulturine guineafowl behind the polar bear.
The 2 nyala calves were in the African plains exhibit.
The living links exhibit was not open as yet, although the capuchins and squirrel monkeys have been moved out of the monkey house.
The aye aye and drill were still in the monkey house, though the drills are shown on the zoo map as being in the old gorilla house.
The last group of quarantined Japanese macaque have now vacated the macaque enclosure next to the monkey house, and according to a sign on the enclosure, it is now going to be developed for birds.
The yellow breasted capuchins and purple faced langurs now have 2 enclosures each in the monkey house.
The adult male Malayan tapir has been moved to the warthog enclosure, as there has been conflict with the male calf.
The pair of North American porcupine are now in the former red panda enclosure, as with the previous inhabitants they seem to prefer the highest branch in the highest tree!
The Darwin's rhea have been moved to the enclosure next to the Bactrian camel, two of the marabou stork have been moved into the Waldrapp ibis aviary and the black stork has been moved to the netted duck pond along with a hammerkop and two juvenile white naped crane.
There was only one male bongo on show.
The rainbow landings exhibit, now when i walked into this house, my first impression in the foyer was cinema foyer meets supermarket, it was very stark and formal not what i expected.
The main exhibit for some reason felt to me like a 10 year old exhibit, like it had been here for years, don't ask me why, there were the rainbow lorikeets putting on a fine show, in a side enclosure were a pair of long nosed potoroo, and in an aviary spanning the length of the enclosure was a Victoria crowned pigeon, Nicobar pigeons and blue faced honeyeater.
Does that mean the Gorilla/Ape House is currently empty? Is it being renovated for the Drills and AyeAyes?
solari27
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hi just been reading an article about budongo in the sunday mail,the chimpanzees keeper jo richardson is quoted as saying there is no breeding programme at present but this will change when they introduce more chimpanzees.
gary wilson head of properties and estates at the zoo is also quoted as saying that they are looking into the possibility of housing giant pandas and orang utans in the future as well as building a dome over the penguins enclosure which will allow them to live in sub zero temperatures as they do in the antartic.
it all sounds very exciting,would love orang utans in edinburgh zoo
gary wilson head of properties and estates at the zoo is also quoted as saying that they are looking into the possibility of housing giant pandas and orang utans in the future as well as building a dome over the penguins enclosure which will allow them to live in sub zero temperatures as they do in the antartic.
it all sounds very exciting,would love orang utans in edinburgh zoo
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