I have the postcards showing both foals and the mother is the same in both. Don't know if this was 'Jenny' but presume so by her longevity.
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I have the postcards showing both foals and the mother is the same in both. Don't know if this was 'Jenny' but presume so by her longevity.
Hello David
According to Zootierliste, London Zoo has had greater and lesser hedgehog tenrecs, lowland streaked tenrecs and tailless tenrecs. I remember the hedgehog tenrecs. Zootierliste says the lesser hedgehog tenrecs were at the zoo from 2009-10, but I think it may have been a decade before this, as I remember where they were (near the exit) and this was before the conversion to the large Rainforest exhibit. Plzen had a few species of tenrecs when I visited in 2011, but the highland and lowland streaked tenrecs have gone.
According to Zootierliste, London Zoo has had greater and lesser hedgehog tenrecs, lowland streaked tenrecs and tailless tenrecs. I remember the hedgehog tenrecs. Zootierliste says the lesser hedgehog tenrecs were at the zoo from 2009-10, but I think it may have been a decade before this, as I remember where they were (near the exit) and this was before the conversion to the large Rainforest exhibit. Plzen had a few species of tenrecs when I visited in 2011, but the highland and lowland streaked tenrecs have gone.
I, too, have postcards depicting both of these hybrid foals with their mother. I concur that the adult female is the same in both cards; I am fairly certain that it is ‘Jenny’.
• the Somali wild ass x mountain zebra hybrid was born on 21st June 1911
• the Chapman’s zebra x mountain zebra hybrid was born on 17th June 1915
Incidentally, exactly one week after the birth of Somali wild ass x mountain zebra hybrid, a Somali wild ass x Chapman’s zebra hybrid was born. (Both of these hybrids had the same father.)
Will try, but I usually need 'help' with uploads....
Possibly Tim might be able to oblige before I can do it.
there is a similar thread to this one, from 2008, which is also well worth reading because it has some nice species named, including this:
http://www.zoochat.com/38/animals-kept-london-zoo-past-20811/Chlidonias said:
I went to college with Mark Carwardine and he got a bit too close for comfort to Sirocco the kakapo. He showed the film footage at a talk in 2010 (see
) and I was pleased that he remembered me when I went up to see him. I took home a photograph of a baiji.
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That's cool that you know Mark Carwardine. "Last Chance to See" is one of my favorite books. I asked Douglas Adams at a book signing if they were ever going to do a sequel to update it. He said that he would love to, but couldn't for the then foreseeable future because he had a young daughter and so he didn't want to leave home. Sadly he died a few years later. I see that Mark Carwardine and Stephen Fry did do a sequel.
Thanks David
Mark was very good-natured at college and I remember him doing research on badgers and bovine TB, which is still very topical in the UK. He also did some work on termites. He has written several books and has appeared in TV and radio programmes, as well as taking part in tours to see whales and other animals.
Mark was very good-natured at college and I remember him doing research on badgers and bovine TB, which is still very topical in the UK. He also did some work on termites. He has written several books and has appeared in TV and radio programmes, as well as taking part in tours to see whales and other animals.
Will try, but I usually need 'help' with uploads....
Possibly Tim might be able to oblige before I can do it.
Just noticed this; I am happy to send a scan of the postcards to 'FBBird' but am always reluctant to post such pictures on an open forum for fear of contravening copyright.
sooty mangabey
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In the UK, copyright on photographs lasts for 70 years; you should, therefore, be okay with these images.
I don't claim to be an expert on copyright law but my understanding is that the copyright period extends for seventy years after the photographer died.
The photographer of the Somali wild ass x mountain zebra hybrid, W. S. Berridge, died in 1966 so the image is still very much in copyright.
Bib Fortuna
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Is this really Whipsnade ?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Glass-Mag...llectables_Photographs_MJ&hash=item19f017d9ae
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Glass-Mag...llectables_Photographs_MJ&hash=item19f017d9ae
Exactly the same as selling a second-hand book or a work of art that you have purchased. You have already paid for it and part of that payment has gone to the copyright holder: you are not making any further copies so copyright does not apply.
Alan
Lafone
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There's a similar work in this thread (given the name of the creator, it may be the same one?) which is also fascinating stuff
London Zoo 1904
ralphthestick
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Yes indeed, that’s me - would be a hell of a coincidence if there were two 1904 recreations in the works! ZSHPlays was kind enough to give the zoo a tour (he made a recreation of London Zoo in the 80s himself a few years ago), and I’m hoping to put out a tour video of my own at some point (probably not any time soon though).
Lafone
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Thought so. It’s very cool as said on the other thread. Quite the thing!
BBC article
Back in time with a recreation of London Zoo, 1904
London Zoo: Digital simulation depicts the attraction in 1904
Back in time with a recreation of London Zoo, 1904
London Zoo: Digital simulation depicts the attraction in 1904