Port Lympne Wild Animal Park Port Lympne 2014

I've attached a annotated map of PL which lacked detail with small cats and needed updating with a few enclosures. (If it is in red, it means off-show)

Black Footed Cats- Male and female are fed around 4:30PM, but only the male usually comes out.

Scottish Wild Cats- You can only see 3 wild cats, which are up by base camp and they tend to be easy to see. They do have 2 more by elephant camp, and another behind the caracals but they are all off-show.

Indian Desert Cats- Unfortunately passed away, currently their enclosure has a Owston's banded palm civet.

Margay- Tricky to see. They have one very dense enclosure full of vegetation which is has a female, but on a sunny day she does like to come out and sit out on one of her favourite logs at the top of her enclosure. Also I remember seeing her a couple of times early in the morning (around 10:30) because I believe one of her keepers often clears out her indoor enclosure and she comes out then. Behind her cage, is another margay enclosure with kittens in it, if you walk off the path a little bit you may manage to get a glimpse of them.

Fishing Cats- Glass enclosure in-between lynx and red panda. They have another set of fishing cat enclosures at the start of carnivore territory but they are often harder to see.

Carpathian Lynx- Their lynx are often pretty easy to see, they have also had some cubs which are very active at the moment.

Caracal- They have 2 caracal in their enclosure by the lynx, I always see one which paces up and down on the left hand side of the cage.

Ocelot- They have a very well hidden ocelot enclosure opposite the lynx and caracal cages on the other side of the road. They have another ocelot enclosure next to the margays.

Rusty Spotted Cats- They have a small but dense enclosure in carnivore territory but I have never seen them in there, I always had better luck with them in their tall cage in the primate walk.

Clouded Leopard- The clouded leopard is often easy to see but their cage is set far far back from the public path on the primate walk and so getting a photo of them is nearly impossible.

Pallas Cat- They have 3 newly done enclosures which look really nice, they are more active late in the afternoon.

Hope it helps
 

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That is incredibly helpful thanks so much Zootiger ... don`t suppose there`s anything similar for Howletts ? ( tho I get the impression that`s a bit more obvious so might not be necessary - had downloaded the maps for both places but noticed that the general opinion on here was that they weren`t particularly accurate !!)
:)
 
I'll make another one for howletts, although it's not as complicated. I made that one for my last visit to Port Lympne, came in handy as I used to forget to go to some of those hidden enclosures :)
 
I added these annotations to one of the older howletts maps, so now it's up to date :)
 

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The gorillas at Howletts are easy enough to see, but in the past the ones at Port Lympne only really used their grass paddocks reliably at the scatter feeds, so I recommend checking on timings when you arrive which will also give you a chance of speaking to the keepers (if you wish to do so). Of course I'm not sure if the current gorilla groups are as set in their ways as the previous ones.

Alan
 
Many many thanks for that Zootiger and also thanks to gentle lemur as well ... feeling much more confidant now . Have to say both places have a lot to live up to as I`ve heard and read so much about them since my teens
( which were a heck of a while ago now !! ) so am looking to make the most out of this visit - not the easiest of places to get to from South Wales ( or so it seems at the moment ... we`ll see next week ;))
Thanks once again guys
Will post any comments either here or ( more likely ) on my thread about my round UK zoo tour ...
Cheers
 
Many many thanks for that Zootiger and also thanks to gentle lemur as well ... feeling much more confidant now . Have to say both places have a lot to live up to as I`ve heard and read so much about them since my teens
( which were a heck of a while ago now !! ) so am looking to make the most out of this visit - not the easiest of places to get to from South Wales ( or so it seems at the moment ... we`ll see next week ;))
Thanks once again guys
Will post any comments either here or ( more likely ) on my thread about my round UK zoo tour ...
Cheers

Try and Squeeze in visits to Wildwood and Wingham, they are both well worth it.
 
Of course I'm not sure if the current gorilla groups are as set in their ways as the previous ones.

From the empty grass enclosures most of the time, I would say that they are. In the original group afaik only three(Ambam, Kush & Djimu) now live together and have access outside, with two( Mataki & Timbou) living seperated- and from each other- in the roundhouse section. The sixth member 'Boumi' died some time ago, while no 7, Djanghou moved to Howletts.

The 2nd pavilion near the De Brazzas still(afaik) has four together, all originally from Kifu's group.
 
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If you want to see the Drills at Port Lympne(opposite Palace of the Apes) they may appear invisible (inside) at certain times of day. You need to be there near a feeding time when they will all be out and active..
 
Quick update time - firstly RSCC is very much open every day from now till the end of October - you can get a keeper led tour up to the Malayan Tigers/Cuban Flamingo/Maned Wolf extension ... on tuesday (23rd) it was just me so felt like a personal tour and the keeper was very chatty and both informative and well-informed .
Keeper doing the rounds at Port Lympne did indeed confirm that they had not long lost the female Black Footed Cat and that the male was still a bit thrown by her absence - managed to see him ( as far as one can through that thick dense mesh ) and he was at least eating well ...
Managed to see all the other cats ( though not in every enclosure if you see what I mean ) with the Owston`s Civet the only no show ( and the Fossa pups were only visible on the video link from inside their house ).
Even got to see inside the Malayan Tapir house thanks to a friendly keeper ...
Didn`t manage to make it to Wildwood this time round but fitted in somewhere I had been to a couple of times ( in both incarnations ) before on my way back home :

23/9/2014 - RSCC
24/9/2014 - Howletts and Wingham ( then Howletts again ... )
25/9/2014 - Port Lympne
26/9/2014 - Birdland

I also stupidly managed to leave my camera behind :eek: but did manage to use my mobile phone camera and have a few decent shots that I shall upload along with selected ones from earlier when I get some time to do so ( back in work on Wednesday so might manage to fit in one or two more collections between now and then ...)
 
So there is now only 1 black footed cat left in Europe? Ah that is such a shame, one of my favourite species :(
 
So there is now only 1 black footed cat left in Europe? Ah that is such a shame, one of my favourite species :(

It is indeed a great shame; especially when you consider just how numerous the species was in Europe only a decade or two ago.
 
What happened to the Black Footed kittens from last year? Did they survive and go to another zoo?
 
What happened to the Black Footed kittens from last year? Did they survive and go to another zoo?

Presumably not - unless the remaining male is one of said kittens and the female that passed away recently was from the Denmark stock that came in.
 
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