Edinburgh Zoo Edinburgh Zoo news 2011 #2

Julz said:
Two Squirell monkeys have been born at Living Links, as has a Cappuchin.

A Rhea, Red River Hog and L'hoest monkey have been visited by the vet in the past week.

One of the parrots has died.
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Meaning the newly introduced L'Hoest monkey?
 
Not sure which of the L'Hoests. It was mentioned in a "if you notice these animals have sonething wrong it's being dealt with" way so I took from that it was for something specific medically wise.
 
Julz said:
Two Squirell monkeys have been born at Living Links, as has a Cappuchin.

A Rhea, Red River Hog and L'hoest monkey have been visited by the vet in the past week.

One of the parrots has died.
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There have been 11 squirrel monkeys born in the last couple of weeks.
 
Jordan-Jaguar97 said:
Some female African painted dogs have arrived over the weekend. (Not sure on numbers, where they came from etc).
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It's actually 3 males, on the facebook status it said 'some female wild dogs have joined us' - however a comment from the zoo under the same status was thus:

Quick update. Its actually the 3 males that arrived at the weekend. There is no date for when they will be on show yet whilst we wait for them to settle into their new surroundings
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Zoo is closed today due to the adverse weather we are gonna get...preparing for the storm myself... take care everyone!
 
White-lipped Deer.

Can anyone confirm the current situation with the White-lipped Deer at Edinburgh?

ISIS lists 2.5 but I thought they imported a larger number than this- about 15? So have some died, or been sent elsewhere?
 
If i remember correctly, the second import of white lipped deer was heavily skewed towards males and i think a few of these have ended up at the Scottish deer centre.
 
Just got back from the zoo... saw the three male painted dogs that were out in their enclosure for the first time... looked nervous but they are still settling in... it did have signs up saying they were not on show but i saw them about 4pm just as the zoo was starting to close.

Saw the two pandas... very cute and definately worth going to see.. as i said in another post the system to see them worked well..and everyone was friendly and th staff very informative.

The female tiger was out on her enclosure and was looking more settled and relaxed... The male was constantly calling to her and looked very interested. Another big cat that was calling to each other were the Amur leopard... both looked to be really enjoying the frankly artic weather we had today. The Wolverines were also out and about..normally really elusive they were wandering back and forth and generally tearing the enclosure to bits.

Had a great day... and yes.. came home with two cuddly pandas that will finish off my neices christmas presents as well as two hats for them to r when we go see them for my birthday...lol
 
News from the LifeLinks

Primates -
There has been new births in the living links enclosures...with other females also looking pregnant

They have took experience mum Lindsay the chimpanze off birth control to allow her to get pregnant and give less experienced mums lik Heleen who lost a baby recently a chance to watch and learn how to raise a baby.

Other births incluse - a black howler monkey, a northern luzon giant cloud rat, a Guinea baboon, two yellow breasted capuchins, a gelada baboon and most recently a moholi bush baby.

There is a new male goeldis monkey who has been mixed with the female Mya. The white faced saki monkeys have moved to what was previously the lemur walk through enclosure.

Carnivores -
The female sea lion, Miranda suffered a cardiac arrest she unfortunately
never regained consciousness.

The baby anteater has started feeding for herself. Mother and daughter
spend much of their time in the showden and can often be seen play
fighting together.

A pair of marbled polecats also recently arrived, they are housed at the end of the small carnivore house.This new pair brings the total collection to five. Difficult animals to breed, they are rotated every couple of weeks, until the female chooses which male to mate with.

Baginda, the new female Sumatran tiger has been introduced to Tibor the male. They have met numerous times now, but with varying success. She does appear to like him, but only in small doses and entirely on her terms! Their last introduction was very positive though, with lotsof calling and head rubbing that culminated in a few mating attempts

Hope this is to old news...sometimes you get the magazine and read through it to realise that you know half of it already... i will continue with the bird, hoofstock and HWP in the next post
 
Lesley4444 said:
Primates -
There has been new births in the living links enclosures...with other females also looking pregnant

They have took experience mum Lindsay the chimpanze off birth control to allow her to get pregnant and give less experienced mums lik Heleen who lost a baby recently a chance to watch and learn how to raise a baby.

Other births incluse - a black howler monkey, a northern luzon giant cloud rat, a Guinea baboon, two yellow breasted capuchins, a gelada baboon and most recently a moholi bush baby.

There is a new male goeldis monkey who has been mixed with the female Mya. The white faced saki monkeys have moved to what was previously the lemur walk through enclosure.

Carnivores -
The female sea lion, Miranda suffered a cardiac arrest she unfortunately
never regained consciousness.

The baby anteater has started feeding for herself. Mother and daughter
spend much of their time in the showden and can often be seen play
fighting together.

A pair of marbled polecats also recently arrived, they are housed at the end of the small carnivore house.This new pair brings the total collection to five. Difficult animals to breed, they are rotated every couple of weeks, until the female chooses which male to mate with.

Baginda, the new female Sumatran tiger has been introduced to Tibor the male. They have met numerous times now, but with varying success. She does appear to like him, but only in small doses and entirely on her terms! Their last introduction was very positive though, with lotsof calling and head rubbing that culminated in a few mating attempts

Hope this is to old news...sometimes you get the magazine and read through it to realise that you know half of it already... i will continue with the bird, hoofstock and HWP in the next post
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Thanks for the update Lesley- Didn't know about the Chimpanzees hopefully a baby their too in the future. I knew about the polecats looking forward to see them soon, Interesting about the tigers I'll keep an eye on that!
 
Lesley4444 said:
The baby anteater has started feeding for herself. Mother and daughter spend much of their time in the showden and can often be seen play fighting together.
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There was no sign of the young over the weekend, but I noticed one of the adults continually pacing a figure-of-eight in the den. Is that normal behaviour?
 
Lesley4444 said:
They have took experience mum Lindsay the chimpanze off birth control to allow her to get pregnant and give less experienced mums lik Heleen who lost a baby recently a chance to watch and learn how to raise a baby.
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Does anyone know how many of the female Chimps are not on contraceptives- is it all the pure Westerns that came from Holland? Lindsay is one of their original group and so a generic chimp (AFAIK).
 
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