Howletts Wild Animal Park Howletts Wild Animal Park News 2012

dublinlion said:
great videos, amazing how the keepers went in with the animals. the huge group of wild boar running through the woodland is amazing. thanks bwana for adding this post.
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I remember the Wild Boar from my first visit (late 70s?). Very impressive sight!
 
Jana said:
An interesting way how to solve bull surplus problems. (Are there no european or american zoos in need of future breeding bulls?)
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I guess a lot more zoos are going down the AI route, as they cant or dont want to house bulls.

Rewilding does for me seem a good solution to the excess bull problems but if this is successful and rolled out more, will it create a wild surplus of males?
 
Does anyone know if the three beautiful North Chinese Leopards that were in the enclosure at the end of the woodland walk on the way to the cafe are still there? May be they were in hiding but I did not see them and could not see any information on notice boards etc. Thanks.
 
They were supposed to be moving to the old tiger enclosure next to the lynx, near the cafe, work began to adapt the enclosure early this year.
 
I have a feeling that they have indeed now moved into this enclosure as of a month or so ago.
 
Ah right TY. I saw them that being worked on earlier in the year. I will look there next time. Cheers.
 
Good news - The UK now has a potential breeding pair of Ratel once again. A female has recently arrived from Germany (Koln? Given the recent SSP import) to partner with resident male, Tyson :)
 
Nisha said:
Good news - The UK now has a potential breeding pair of Ratel once again. A female has recently arrived from Germany (Koln? Given the recent SSP import) to partner with resident male, Tyson :)
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Extremely happy for him. He sure was in need of some company. :)
 
I agree, I might take a look at the enclosure next time. It used to avoid it as did not like seeing Tyson wondering round alone.
 
Nisha said:
Good news - The UK now has a potential breeding pair of Ratel once again. A female has recently arrived from Germany (Koln? Given the recent SSP import) to partner with resident male, Tyson :)
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Some excellent news indeed. I remember the old pair 'Winnie' and the male who's name I cannot remember, I believe one of the pair were the last to be born in the UK during the 1970's:confused:
 
Agreed, this is great news , for me the ratel are possibly the biggest attraction at Howletts and i feared they were giving up on them!
 
I didnt see the honey badger when I went last year which was a shame, but I saw one on youtube later that night so all was not lost.

Im interested in the plans for the lemur walk through. On the website it says 'the black lemur will be one of a variety of lemur species to live in our walk-through lemur enclosure'. Between the two sites there are 2 subspecies of b&w ruffed lemur, crowned, black, lesser bamboo or greater bamboo lemur and sifaka, and they did have ring tailed at one point but they're not listed now. Will all the different species of lemur eventually be housed together in the walk-thru?
 
leiclad20 said:
I didnt see the honey badger when I went last year which was a shame, but I saw one on youtube later that night so all was not lost.

Im interested in the plans for the lemur walk through. On the website it says 'the black lemur will be one of a variety of lemur species to live in our walk-through lemur enclosure'. Between the two sites there are 2 subspecies of b&w ruffed lemur, crowned, black, lesser bamboo or greater bamboo lemur and sifaka, and they did have ring tailed at one point but they're not listed now. Will all the different species of lemur eventually be housed together in the walk-thru?
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I was advised on my visit earlier this year that it was planned to add black & crowned lemur to the two species already in the walkthrough, nothing else was mentioned but plans obviously can change.
 
leiclad20 said:
Im interested in the plans for the lemur walk through. On the website it says 'the black lemur will be one of a variety of lemur species to live in our walk-through lemur enclosure'. Between the two sites there are 2 subspecies of b&w ruffed lemur, crowned, black, lesser bamboo or greater bamboo lemur and sifaka, and they did have ring tailed at one point but they're not listed now. Will all the different species of lemur eventually be housed together in the walk-thru?
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Black and red-bellied were using the walk-through (but not simultaneously) when I visited two months ago.
 
Whereas a pair of Ratels is obviously the thing to do i was surprised at Kirafu making the anthropomorphic statement that a male Ratel would be lonely on his own..although Ratels arent particularly solitary in the wild its the kind of nonsense that regular zoo visitors come up with i.e.Alaska Sealife Centre this summer,a woman off a cruise liner stating that a crab was lonely on its own!As for the Ratel coming from Cologne..isnt that the kind of urban zoo that Damian Aspinall hates? Re. his quote in the Sunday Times "rows of animals in wretched cages"[28.10.12].
 
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Tim Brown said:
Whereas a pair of Ratels is obviously the thing to do i was surprised at Kirafu making the anthropomorphic statement that a male Ratel would be lonely on his own..although Ratels arent particularly solitary in the wild its the kind of nonsense that regular zoo visitors come up with i.e.Alaska Sealife Centre this summer,a woman off a cruise liner stating that a crab was lonely on its own!As for the Ratel coming from Cologne..isnt that the kind of urban zoo that Damian Aspinall hates? Re. his quote in the Sunday Times "rows of animals in wretched cages"[28.10.12].
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Kifaru Bwana said "Extremely happy for him. He sure was in need of some company", which I took to mean in terms of breeding potential. Ageruff said "I agree, I might take a look at the enclosure next time. It used to avoid it as did not like seeing Tyson wondering round alone" which was the more anthropomorphic statement I think.
 
Chlidonias said:
I used to avoid it as did not like seeing Tyson wondering round alone" which was the more anthropomorphic statement I think.
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Last time I went there he was dashing around at high speed on a very stereotyped path around the enclosure..
 
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