Edinburgh Zoo Edinburgh Zoo news 2012 #1

cracker said:
It's supposed to represent the prow of a ship in reference to Christian Salvesen as they provided the founders of the existing penguin colony and it's really why penguins have been at Edinburgh for so long as Salvesens used to regularly return to Leith docks in Edinburgh after trips to the southern oceans where they "collected" the penguins. There is a plaque on that part of the bridge at the penguin enclosure.
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OK - but it's a pretty poor representation in my eyes. I doubt if any of Salvesen's factory ships or whalers had bows, sterns or anything else that were that shape or that colour. It would be another candidate for my Casson Memorial Wrecking Ball award if I didn't like the rest of the Penguin Pool so much.

Alan
 
gentle lemur said:
OK - but it's a pretty poor representation in my eyes. I doubt if any of Salvesen's factory ships or whalers had bows, sterns or anything else that were that shape or that colour. It would be another candidate for my Casson Memorial Wrecking Ball award if I didn't like the rest of the Penguin Pool so much.

Alan
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Well it's only meant to be a representation, and I think it's also partly been designed that way to help with the suspension of the bridge over the pool. It makes no difference to the penguins one way or the other and as architect designed penguin enclosures go, it's a million times better than the old penguin pool at London. It's just a way of acknowledging the origins of the penguin colony at the zoo. I think if it was a faithful representation of a ships prow it would probably look even more ridiculous. Just my opinion anyway.
 
From memory (I'd need to dig out the old census) I don't think they've had much Rockhopper breeding sucess in recent years, even with moving them to the small enclosure
 
Davef68 said:
From memory (I'd need to dig out the old census) I don't think they've had much Rockhopper breeding sucess in recent years, even with moving them to the small enclosure
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In 2008 there was one chick and then 2 hatched in 2009, a lot of the birds are quite old now and that's why it will help getting younger birds in.
 
Davef68 said:
From memory (I'd need to dig out the old census) I don't think they've had much Rockhopper breeding sucess in recent years, even with moving them to the small enclosure
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I had a look on the website, this is the statistic:

Species Eggs L Hatc Survived to end of the year:

Gentoo 129 56 40
Rockhopper 9 0 0

Just about says it all:rolleyes:
 
Jordan-Jaguar97 said:
I don't think it's been mentioned sorry if it has but 2.2 Dwarf mongoose have arrived at the zoo. The two females came from Emmen and the males Helsinki.
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The Dwarf Mongoose are in the old tortoise enclosure in the Hippo House (Well at least two of them are!!) Very active today.


The Short Clawed Otters have at least two babies - watched the staff/vet catch and microchip one today (a female I heard), but they couldn't catch the second, which was in the holt tunnel with it's mum and older siblings.

There was a mammal I didn't recognise in the aviaries behind the small carnivore house - looked like a marsupial type - will post a poic
 
is there still a male Siberian musk deer in the Whitson wood with the goral and is there any news of a female, or is the zoo just letting them go?
 
So does anyone know why there is a banteng at Edinburgh and, if another member is correct in saying, why won't it be staying?
 
johnstoni. said:
So does anyone know why there is a banteng at Edinburgh and, if another member is correct in saying, why won't it be staying?
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Another UK collection is about to recieve Banteng and I suspect the person who posted that the Edinburgh animal may not be there long may be under the impression that this is the animal that the other collection is to recieve. If that is the case then that is incorrect as the other collections Banteng are due to arrive from collections in main land Europe.
 
So no goral or musk deer in Whitson wood now, surely this central area of the zoo won't be left vacant for too long.
 
johnstoni. said:
So does anyone know why there is a banteng at Edinburgh and, if another member is correct in saying, why won't it be staying?
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As pt123 has said I put 2 and 2 together and came up with 9,which I now know is wrong and that the animals at Edinburgh will be staying at Edinburgh!
 
Which is good, being as I haven't seen the Edinburgh banteng yet ;)
 
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