Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens Cotswold Wildlife Park news 2013-2014

bigcat speciali said:
America has many issues that are very contraindicating to what we we call the better or normal way of practice. Every zoo, collection, will have placed numerous criteria and emphasis on such hand-rearing matters. However, America has its own very difficult set of problems, from Joe Exotic to Doc Antle and the many others. I am as are many others against hand-rearing which goes against the grain of common sense and showmanship and, doing so for the gain of ego, drama and press advertising. That is not to say all hand-rearing is wrong...;)
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Of course, Cotswold Wildlife Park is not *in* America ;) so your disapproval about practices at US collections has no bearing on the competence of CWP in the matter of handrearing Clouded Leopard.

By the by, this collection has a good breeding record with this species, and I believe it has successfully handreared big cat taxa in the past - two points which will hopefully allay your concerns somewhat.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Of course, Cotswold Wildlife Park is not *in* America ;) so your disapproval about practices at US collections has no bearing on the competence of CWP in the matter of handrearing Clouded Leopard.

By the by, this collection has a good breeding record with this species, and I believe it has successfully handreared big cat taxa in the past - two points which will hopefully allay your concerns somewhat.
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I was referring to the quote from Paradoxurus "Across the global zoo community - particularly in American collections - there is vast experience at resocialising hand-reared clouded leopards." I am very well aware where the CWP is and of the rearing success thank you.;)
 
Indeed - my point was that even if you disagreed with his opinion of American resocialisation techniques and view them as flawed, it does not mean the techniques used by CWP share these flaws.

As such, when one considers the known successes of CWP, rushing to call the story disheartening is a little premature in my opinion :)
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Indeed - my point was that even if you disagreed with his opinion of American resocialisation techniques and view them as flawed, it does not mean the techniques used by CWP share these flaws.

As such, when one considers the known successes of CWP, rushing to call the story disheartening is a little premature in my opinion :)
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Sorry but I have to disagree...
 
Eland at Cotswold

A pair of eland can now be seen in the old zebra housing with the rhino.The yard is shielded by hessian until they settle in and then they will try and introduce them to the rhino.The zebra are now where the ostriches used to be.The stables have been considerably improved.A new zebra foal has been born.I don't know where the ostriches have gone?
 
trachycarpus said:
A pair of eland can now be seen in the old zebra housing with the rhino.The yard is shielded by hessian until they settle in and then they will try and introduce them to the rhino.The zebra are now where the ostriches used to be.The stables have been considerably improved.A new zebra foal has been born.I don't know where the ostriches have gone?
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The Ostriches were planned to be mixed with the White Rhino and the Eland.
 
trachycarpus said:
A pair of eland can now be seen in the old zebra housing with the rhino.The yard is shielded by hessian until they settle in and then they will try and introduce them to the rhino.The zebra are now where the ostriches used to be.The stables have been considerably improved.A new zebra foal has been born.I don't know where the ostriches have gone?
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A pair of Eland? I wonder why Cotswold Wildlife Park would want Eland for
 
Jedd Cullinan said:
A pair of Eland? I wonder why Cotswold Wildlife Park would want Eland for
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For the same reason they have other large non-endangered species like Chapman's Zebra, male Giraffe, Llama, Camel etc etc- as an exhibit. They are large and impressive and fill up paddock space.
 
I visited cwp in august for the 1st time since childhood. I was amazed. .. It's the most immaculate, well kept Park I think I've ever visited. The exhibits were excellent and the collection well thought out and diverse. Well worth the admission fee and drive to get there. But gutted I was a few weeks too early to see eland!
 
Pertinax said:
For the same reason they have other large non-endangered species like Chapman's Zebra, male Giraffe, Llama, Camel etc etc- as an exhibit. They are large and impressive and fill up paddock space.
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I see. I wonder where did they get the pair of eland from
 
leiclad20 said:
It's the most immaculate, well kept Park I think I've ever visited. The exhibits were excellent and the collection well thought out and diverse.
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It constantly gets a five star rating on here, mainly for the reasons you mention.
 
Jedd Cullinan said:
A pair of Eland? I wonder why Cotswold Wildlife Park would want Eland for
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It's this bizarre notion that some zoo managers have that animals are interesting, regardless of their rarity. Fortunately, such wrong-thinking is now pretty unusual in British zoos, so the chance of seeing a diverse collection is much less than was once the case. Phew!
 
Naked Mole Rats have joined the collection and are now on show near the Yellow Mongoose :)
 
sooty mangabey said:
It's this bizarre notion that some zoo managers have that animals are interesting, regardless of their rarity. Fortunately, such wrong-thinking is now pretty unusual in British zoos, so the chance of seeing a diverse collection is much less than was once the case. Phew!
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An enthusiast without a car would find it hard to see Eland these days; most in the UK are in safari parks.

My only criticism of CWP's existing paddock species is that I wish they could come up with something more exotic than Llama in the paddock by the entrance!
 
Rhino House at Cotswold

A major extension has started on the rhino house at Cotswold to accommodate their increasing herd.The second rhino now looks very pregnant. I wonder if they will still mix the eland with the rhino now?

The hyrax in the restaurant area now number eight with two new youngsters
And provide a very active group.
 
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