Edinburgh Zoo Edinburgh Zoo News 2015

lowland anoa said:
They are still in the temporarily enclosure.
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Are you sure? I saw some in the new house ages ago (can't remember when exactly, but it's been a while since I last visited anyway) so they have been in the new house. Did you see them back in the temp enclosure recently? Maybe they've had to move them back out if so.
 
Tunanta said:
Are you sure? I saw some in the new house ages ago (can't remember when exactly, but it's been a while since I last visited anyway) so they have been in the new house. Did you see them back in the temp enclosure recently? Maybe they've had to move them back out if so.
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They moved out of the old home maybe in mid-December.
 
PETA is one of those organisations whose opinion is formed before they do the research.
 
Sunbear12 said:
PETA has criticised the zoo's "Zoo Night's" events. All their evidence comes from London's events so I am not convinced that their is any problem at Edinburgh.

Full article can be read here - {mods: removed url}
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Oh, dear, so far nothing horrible have occurred at party nights.
 
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Five Black-and-gold howler monkeys were shipped to Leipzig in Germany, the entire group?
 
Panda breeding going on fairly quietly this year, AI happened this morning
Edinburgh Zoo - Giant Panda Breeding Season Update

Giant Panda Breeding Season Update
26 March 2015

Iain Valentine, Director of Giant Pandas for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, said:

TT 1“Artificial insemination took place on Tian Tian the female giant panda in the early hours of Thursday 26 March 2015. The procedure was carried out by the expert team of three veterinarians at RZSS, alongside Chinese colleague Doctor Wang Chengdong from the China Conservation and Research Centre for Giant Pandas (CCRCGP). Only semen from male panda Yang Guang was used during the procedure.

“Natural mating will also be attempted today before the short breeding window comes to a close this afternoon (Thursday) as both pandas remain extremely interested in one another, but as Tian Tian’s transition to peak was so rapid it was a priority to move straight to AI first.

“Throughout yesterday (Wednesday) Tian Tian remained very quiet and sleepy, but by 5pm there was a behavioural shift and the results of hormone tests that came back at 7pm, carried out by the University of Edinburgh, confirmed ovulation had occurred. As each individual panda is different and their pattern can vary from year to year, this is why we start hormone monitoring via urine samples so early and continually observe our female via CCTV as the window approaches.

“Tian Tian is doing very well and everything went according to plan.”

The panda enclosure will likely remain closed at Edinburgh Zoo until Sunday 29 March.

- See more at: Edinburgh Zoo - Giant Panda Breeding Season Update
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In the Guardian:

Mating time for UK's giant pandas, with a little help from the vets | World news | The Guardian

Tian Tian and Yang Guang said to be ‘extremely interested in one another’ at Edinburgh zoo

It is once again the giant panda breeding season in Edinburgh, with the zoo’s most famous couple described as “extremely interested in one another” as experts race to take advantage of the animals’ notoriously brief window of conception.

Iain Valentine, director of the giant panda project for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, confirmed that the female, Tian Tian, had been artificially inseminated in the early hours of Thursday morning, by a team of veterinarians from Scotland and China. Only semen from the male panda, Yang Guang, was used during the procedure.

“Natural mating will also be attempted today before the short breeding window comes to a close this afternoon, as both pandas remain extremely interested in one another,” said Valentine, “but as Tian Tian’s transition to peak was so rapid it was a priority to move straight to AI first.”

Valentine added: “Throughout Wednesday, Tian Tian remained very quiet and sleepy, but by 5pm there was a behavioural shift and the results of hormone tests that came back at 7pm, carried out by the University of Edinburgh, confirmed ovulation had occurred. As each individual panda is different and their pattern can vary from year to year, this is why we start hormone monitoring via urine samples so early and continually observe our female via CCTV as the window approaches.”

Tian Tian and Yang Guang – their names mean Sweetie and Sunshine – arrived in Scotland on loan from China in 2011 and will remain at Edinburgh zoo for a decade. They are the first pandas to live in Britain for nearly 20 years.

Tian Tian was successfully inseminated in 2013 – the first such procedure to take place on a giant panda in the UK – but lost her cub at late term. She again conceived artificially in April last year but the embryo did not develop.

Edinburgh Zoo said the panda enclosure would be likely to remain closed until the end of the week.
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