Flamingo Land Past species

[Cat-Man]

Does anyone have any idea what species where kept at flamingoland in the past? did they ever keep koalas?

 

[bongorob]

Koalas, never. I have the book The Animals of FLamingo Land. It lists all the species kept in 1976.

See attachments.

 

[kiang]

Their wikipedia entry even says they have a female okapi!!!!!

 

[taun]

Their wikipedia entry even says they have a female okapi!!!!!

Ah good old wikipedia, always so realiable

 

[zoogiraffe]

Yes wikipedia strikes again you would have thought we had learn`t by now not to believe it,but they did keep an Elephant Seal in what is now the Penguin pool.

 

[bongorob]

Yes I remeber the Elephant Seal.

 

[Paradoxurus]

Flamingo Park / Flamingoland has held a staggering list of species over the years. At its opening, until the late seventies when it was sold, it acted rather as a holding facility for Ravensden stock.

Several elephant seals were brought over by Associated Pleasure Parks from the falklands. One that was dead upon arrival was hastily ferried up to Loch Ness where someone subsequently 'discovered' Nessy's carcass washed up.

One of the seals went to Cleethorpes and, if I remember correctly, Dudley too.

 

[Upali]

They kept asian elephants didn't they...

I may be wrong but didn't Sheba and Jangolie from Chester come from Flamingo land.

 

[^Chris^]

They kept asian elephants didn't they...

I may be wrong but didn't Sheba and Jangolie from Chester come from Flamingo land.

Yes, they kept elephants, there's a photo of the exhibit in my gallery.

I remember in the old elephant house at Chester there was a sign saying they had some elephants that had come from flamingo land- I can't remember which, but you are probably right.

 

[Pertinax]

I remember in the old elephant house at Chester there was a sign saying they had some elephants that had come from flamingo land- I can't remember which,

Jangoli came from Flamingo Park. I don't know about Sheba...