Howletts Wild Animal Park Animal at Howletts

cyrildacat

cyrildacat

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I have just been to howletts today and noticed that on the back of one of the keeper trucks is a name tag. These name tags have animals names on and they sit on their enclosure. The name was something like 'Sakara'. Doe anyone know the species of this animal and why it is on the back of a keeper vechile.
 
The name tag you saw I believe was 'Sariska' reason it is on a vehicle is that she died some time ago, not sure what species, but was a small cat.
 
I have just found out that Sabriska was a Bengal Tiger that escaped and was forced to be shot. Did she have a Mate?
 
That's interesting I was there yesterday. The keeper said they have six tigers and I spotted 2 Amur Malchek and Nika and two Bengal in adjacent enclosure Manas and Lahore. Just round the corner from there was an empty enclosure which had name tags Amirh and Indah it appears work is maintenance work is being carried out in here. However I believe it was indicated that these contained Sumatran tigers. Next enclosure along had two Sumatran tigers on display and I heard the keepers calling the female a name that sounded something similar to lydia.
Please forgive me if I have got any of the names or subspecies wrong I am not an expert and just enjoy viewing them. I have only just had my first few visits to Howletts in about 30 years.
 
ageruff said:
That's interesting I was there yesterday. The keeper said they have six tigers and I spotted 2 Amur Malchek and Nika and two Bengal in adjacent enclosure Manas and Lahore. Just round the corner from there was an empty enclosure which had name tags Amirh and Indah it appears work is maintenance work is being carried out in here. However I believe it was indicated that these contained Sumatran tigers. Next enclosure along had two Sumatran tigers on display and I heard the keepers calling the female a name that sounded something similar to lydia.
Please forgive me if I have got any of the names or subspecies wrong I am not an expert and just enjoy viewing them. I have only just had my first few visits to Howletts in about 30 years.
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Howletts hold three species of Tiger. Amur, Bengal and Sumatran- they had two of each. 1.1 Amur and Sumatran, 2.0 Bengals. The Sumatran's are Indah and Amir. The 2.0 Bengals are brothers, and the Amur's have bred before.
 
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I'm preety sure that the Howletts Bengal tigers are not brothers, they are definately male and female respectively Manas (male) and Lahore (female).
 
Riziki said:
I'm preety sure that the Howletts Bengal tigers are not brothers, they are definately male and female respectively Manas (male) and Lahore (female).
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Oops! I do get mixed up with the PL and Howletts tigers. Yup, they have 1.1, the female Lahore is the female in the litter with the 2.0 at PL.
 
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