Thanks for the update, glad to know they're all still ok, hope to see these in the summer after missing the last litter.
Marwell Wildlife Marwell Zoo News 2013
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Thanks for the update, glad to know they're all still ok, hope to see these in the summer after missing the last litter.
Visited yesterday . The grounds look good with new leaves on the trees , as do the ungulates out in the paddocks . Recorded film of the snow leopard cubs is showing . Unfortunately another 3 mammal species have gone - Arabian sand cats and yellow mongoose ( all said to have passed away due to old age ) and Prevost's squirrel ( transfer to another collection ) . Posters on the Desert Carnivore House seem to indicate that dwarf mongoose and meercat will replace the sand cats . There were meercat in 3 separate exhibits already !
No sign of the single female Siberian tiger , signs indicate she is rather elusive .
Liked the new Walk-Through Aviary , will look good once the vegetation has grown up a bit .
No sign of the single female Siberian tiger , signs indicate she is rather elusive .
Liked the new Walk-Through Aviary , will look good once the vegetation has grown up a bit .
Sad to hear of yet more losses to the collection and the lack of ambition to replace them. Nothing surprises me though and at the current rate the zoo will be empty in 5 years! At least they will have a nice new entrance if they're planning on wasting money on that still?!
I visited for the first time today, so here are some thoughts from a newbies perspective on issues raised of late
Gotta say, the two remaining rhino are in possession of the most impressive horns I've seen on the species.
This tallies with my observation.
I actually enjoyed the collection a lot; after reading this thread I didn't expect to at all. It seems a lot less bare and run down than I had been led to believe, for a start, and I observed very few empty enclosures.
I observed 1.1 Amur tigers.
There are now signs up stating they intend to bring more dwarf mongoose in. I observed common marmosets, golden tamarin and golden headed lion tamarin as well as cotton-top.
Gotta say, the two remaining rhino are in possession of the most impressive horns I've seen on the species.
This tallies with my observation.
I actually enjoyed the collection a lot; after reading this thread I didn't expect to at all. It seems a lot less bare and run down than I had been led to believe, for a start, and I observed very few empty enclosures.
I observed 1.1 Amur tigers.
There are now signs up stating they intend to bring more dwarf mongoose in. I observed common marmosets, golden tamarin and golden headed lion tamarin as well as cotton-top.
What transpires from the animal inventory - kudos they list it on the website - is that sparingly breeding takes place in the collection.
A 2nd female Tiger has arrived: She is on loan whilst Marwell wait to be assigned a male for the younger female who arrived last year. Quote from Marwell's Facebook:
Meet Kushka the tiger! We are delighted to announce the arrival of a new female tiger called Kushka. The active 14 year old tiger is on loan from another BIAZA zoo and will provide company for Milla until she is joined by a new male tiger. The two females have welcomed each other’s company and have settled in well living together
Meet Kushka the tiger! We are delighted to announce the arrival of a new female tiger called Kushka. The active 14 year old tiger is on loan from another BIAZA zoo and will provide company for Milla until she is joined by a new male tiger. The two females have welcomed each other’s company and have settled in well living together
She came from Paradise Wildlife Park.
mhale
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I visited Marwell yesterday for the first time since November. There have been quite a few changes in that time (which have been advised on various Marwell threads). These are my observations (I'll try not to duplicate what has already been mentioned):
1) A somali wild ass has been born this week (see attached photo) and it is suspected there may be at least one other due
2) There is a lot of new signage/advertising around the zoo
3) There is a new platform overlooking the capybara enclosure (on the South Road side)
4) The rheas are using the old kangaroo enclosure as well as the capybara enclosure
5) The male pygmy hippo has recently returned to Bristol Zoo
6) The weaver birds have moved into the new walk-through aviary and their old enclosure in the giraffe house is empty
7) The waldrapp ibises, little egrets and night heron(s) have moved to the new aviary
8) A lowland anoa is in the old wildebeest enclosure
9) The coatis are currently offshow whilst their new enclosure is finished
10) The sun conures are currently offshow but will be going into a new enclosure
11) The white-faced saki monkeys will be moving to Encounter Village when the old walk-through aviary has been refurbished (it will no longer be a walk-through but will have windows instead)
12) The emperor tamarins are in the old Goeldi's monkey enclosure near Marwell Hall
13) The red pandas have temporarily moved to one end of the fossa enclosure (opposite the old yellow mongoose enclosure) whilst maintenance work is being carried out close to their enclosure
14) I liked the new aviary - it was well designed and gave good views of the weaver birds, Von der Decken's hornbills, waldrapp ibises, little egrets, hamerkops and a night heron. There were supposed to be crowned plovers and a violet turaco as well but I didn't see those.
15) The new coati enclosure is right next to the aviary and a path will link the two
16) The leopard tortoise enclosure was being refurbished in Encounter Village
17) The peach-faced lovebirds and chipmunks were both missing from Encounter Village
18) Two species of pigeon (speckled and pied imperial) will be going into the old kookaburra area at the end of the wallaby walk-through
19) I was told that the refurbished enclosure in Encounter Village will probably hold the four offshow tamarins first (one red-mantled, one golden lion, one golden-headed lion and one cotton-top, who were all described as "grandads"), before the family of saki monkeys go in there
20) The 3 x Northern tree shrews have moved to the old douroucouli enclosure near the lemurs, but only the indoor part of it
21) The old yellow mongoose enclosure is currently empty "awaiting new animals"
22) The panther chameleon is in Tropical World
According to the noticeboard, recent births and arrivals 2013 are as follows:
08/02/13 - Lowland Anoa - arrived from Berlin
08/02/13 - Giant Anteater - arrived from Warsaw
03/04/13 - Penguin
03/04/13 - Gentle Lemur
05/04/13 - Penguin
13/04/13 - Marabou Stork - arrived from Amsterdam
15/04/13 - Scops Owl - arrived from Chester Zoo
18/04/13 - Penguin
21/04/13 - 3 Snow Leopards
03/06/13 - 4 Meerkats - arrived from Belfast Zoo
04/06/13 - Arabian Oryx - arrived from Montpellier, France
05/06/13 - Amur Tiger "Kushka" - arrived from Paradise Wildlife Park
08/06/13 - Scimitar-horned Oryx
09/06/13 - Scimitar-horned Oryx
12/06/13 - 2 Black-cheeked Lovebirds
12/06/13 - 2 Dumeril's Boas - arrived from Newquay Zoo
16/06/13 - 2 Greater Flamingoes
1) A somali wild ass has been born this week (see attached photo) and it is suspected there may be at least one other due
2) There is a lot of new signage/advertising around the zoo
3) There is a new platform overlooking the capybara enclosure (on the South Road side)
4) The rheas are using the old kangaroo enclosure as well as the capybara enclosure
5) The male pygmy hippo has recently returned to Bristol Zoo
6) The weaver birds have moved into the new walk-through aviary and their old enclosure in the giraffe house is empty
7) The waldrapp ibises, little egrets and night heron(s) have moved to the new aviary
8) A lowland anoa is in the old wildebeest enclosure
9) The coatis are currently offshow whilst their new enclosure is finished
10) The sun conures are currently offshow but will be going into a new enclosure
11) The white-faced saki monkeys will be moving to Encounter Village when the old walk-through aviary has been refurbished (it will no longer be a walk-through but will have windows instead)
12) The emperor tamarins are in the old Goeldi's monkey enclosure near Marwell Hall
13) The red pandas have temporarily moved to one end of the fossa enclosure (opposite the old yellow mongoose enclosure) whilst maintenance work is being carried out close to their enclosure
14) I liked the new aviary - it was well designed and gave good views of the weaver birds, Von der Decken's hornbills, waldrapp ibises, little egrets, hamerkops and a night heron. There were supposed to be crowned plovers and a violet turaco as well but I didn't see those.
15) The new coati enclosure is right next to the aviary and a path will link the two
16) The leopard tortoise enclosure was being refurbished in Encounter Village
17) The peach-faced lovebirds and chipmunks were both missing from Encounter Village
18) Two species of pigeon (speckled and pied imperial) will be going into the old kookaburra area at the end of the wallaby walk-through
19) I was told that the refurbished enclosure in Encounter Village will probably hold the four offshow tamarins first (one red-mantled, one golden lion, one golden-headed lion and one cotton-top, who were all described as "grandads"), before the family of saki monkeys go in there
20) The 3 x Northern tree shrews have moved to the old douroucouli enclosure near the lemurs, but only the indoor part of it
21) The old yellow mongoose enclosure is currently empty "awaiting new animals"
22) The panther chameleon is in Tropical World
According to the noticeboard, recent births and arrivals 2013 are as follows:
08/02/13 - Lowland Anoa - arrived from Berlin
08/02/13 - Giant Anteater - arrived from Warsaw
03/04/13 - Penguin
03/04/13 - Gentle Lemur
05/04/13 - Penguin
13/04/13 - Marabou Stork - arrived from Amsterdam
15/04/13 - Scops Owl - arrived from Chester Zoo
18/04/13 - Penguin
21/04/13 - 3 Snow Leopards
03/06/13 - 4 Meerkats - arrived from Belfast Zoo
04/06/13 - Arabian Oryx - arrived from Montpellier, France
05/06/13 - Amur Tiger "Kushka" - arrived from Paradise Wildlife Park
08/06/13 - Scimitar-horned Oryx
09/06/13 - Scimitar-horned Oryx
12/06/13 - 2 Black-cheeked Lovebirds
12/06/13 - 2 Dumeril's Boas - arrived from Newquay Zoo
16/06/13 - 2 Greater Flamingoes
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The Arabian oryx in from Montpellier should be a male should it not?
The pygmy hippo male did his job (or has nothing been confirmed on the female at Marwell)?
The pygmy hippo male did his job (or has nothing been confirmed on the female at Marwell)?
Good news, it means they are committed to keeping them, at least for the foreseable future. Now the only ones in the UK. I would like to see them build up a reasonable herd and a few more places take the surplus.
Yes the Arabian Oryx is a male.
Article about the snow leopard-birth at Marwell :
Snow Leopard Cub Triplets Take Their First Steps Outside - ZooBorns
Snow Leopard Cub Triplets Take Their First Steps Outside - ZooBorns
bloodycurtus
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the new Arabian is a female
sooty mangabey
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The zoo's new TV advert is available on Youtube. It is every bit as ghastly as one might fear:
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In other news, the latest edition of the zoo's newsletter/magazine is available online: ISSUU - Marwell News Summer 2013 by Marwell Wildlife.
In a short piece on the dwarf mongooses, it is mentioned that they will be seen in the Desert Carnivore House, along with "two female meerkats" (!) and that "we are planing for another species of mongoose to arrive at the zoo". What will that species be? If it is banded, or yellow, I will continue to be slightly grumpy about the direction that Marwell is taking. If, however, they are doing something genuinely interesting - slender? white-tailed? - I may have to prepare to eat my hat.
Finally, and this may have been covered previously, it looks as if the place is now officially referring to itself as "Marwell Zoo" once more, rather than "Marwell Wildlife".
In other news, the latest edition of the zoo's newsletter/magazine is available online: ISSUU - Marwell News Summer 2013 by Marwell Wildlife.
In a short piece on the dwarf mongooses, it is mentioned that they will be seen in the Desert Carnivore House, along with "two female meerkats" (!) and that "we are planing for another species of mongoose to arrive at the zoo". What will that species be? If it is banded, or yellow, I will continue to be slightly grumpy about the direction that Marwell is taking. If, however, they are doing something genuinely interesting - slender? white-tailed? - I may have to prepare to eat my hat.
Finally, and this may have been covered previously, it looks as if the place is now officially referring to itself as "Marwell Zoo" once more, rather than "Marwell Wildlife".
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If they are referring to themselves as a zoo again, that's excellent news, as i've said before I hated the Marwell Wildlife re-branding, as did many others.
I wont hold my breath over the mongoose species and at the risk of repeating myself, the desert carnivore house is wasted on meerkats. They've only just built a very good meerkat enclosure next door and there are other places they could put surplus, which were empty last time i went and held meerkat or mongoose previously.
Does anyone know whats happening to the old coati enclosure?
I wont hold my breath over the mongoose species and at the risk of repeating myself, the desert carnivore house is wasted on meerkats. They've only just built a very good meerkat enclosure next door and there are other places they could put surplus, which were empty last time i went and held meerkat or mongoose previously.
Does anyone know whats happening to the old coati enclosure?