Species on the brink of disappearing from U.K Collections

[Paradoxurus]

Pig Tailed - at Paradise it was still Broxbourne then so I guess about 30 years ago

Paradise Park must also have kept rhesus and bonnet macaques at around about this time too.

I recall speaking to the owner of Argyll Wildlife Park back in about 2004. His place closed around this time and at the time of its closure it held both of the above two species which he confirmed had originally come from Broxbourne. I presume they ended up in private hands as I don't recall them turning up in any zoos (the bonnet macaques would probably have been the only ones in the UK at that time and as such a species not likely to go unnoticed by the enthusiast community).

 

[garyjp]

Paradise Park must also have kept rhesus and bonnet macaques at around about this time too.

I recall speaking to the owner of Argyll Wildlife Park back in about 2004. His place closed around this time and at the time of its closure it held both of the above two species which he confirmed had originally come from Broxbourne. I presume they ended up in private hands as I don't recall them turning up in any zoos (the bonnet macaques would probably have been the only ones in the UK at that time and as such a species not likely to go unnoticed by the enthusiast community).

When it was Broxbourne Zoo I cannot remember them having Bonnet or Rhesus Macaques thats not to say they didn;t have them at some time.As Broxbourne and in my time visiting i do recall chimpanzees,Pig Tailed Macaques,Diana monkey,Patas monkey ,Moor Macaque and Hamadrayas Baboon.

 

[kiang]

Paradise Park must also have kept rhesus and bonnet macaques at around about this time too.

I recall speaking to the owner of Argyll Wildlife Park back in about 2004. His place closed around this time and at the time of its closure it held both of the above two species which he confirmed had originally come from Broxbourne. I presume they ended up in private hands as I don't recall them turning up in any zoos (the bonnet macaques would probably have been the only ones in the UK at that time and as such a species not likely to go unnoticed by the enthusiast community).

The Argyll wildlife park never had any primate species as far as i was aware

 

[Paradoxurus]

The Argyll wildlife park never had any primate species as far as i was aware

Yes, they did.

 

[sooty mangabey]

Yes, they did.

With marketing that sophisticated, it's hard to believe that the place closed down!

 

[kiang]

We'll I take it back, sorry to doubt you.

 

[Lemurs]

Has anywhere got babirusas these days? I used to like seeing them at Port Lympne.

 

[Macaw16]

Has anywhere got babirusas these days? I used to like seeing them at Port Lympne.

Chester, South Lakes and Dudley I believe.

 

[lamna]

Dudley still had one on the 21st.

 

[bongorob]

Chester are making an effort to keep the species going, three young in the last six months.

The Dudley male is very old.

 

[Lemurs]

Thanks for the info.

Howletts' (off-show) Lesser Spot-Nosed Guenons are both elderly so give it a few years and I think no one will have them.

 

[MagpieGoose]

Chester, South Lakes and Dudley I believe.

How many Babirusa are there now at South Lakes?

 

[Macaw16]

How many Babirusa are there now at South Lakes?

I'm sorry I can't help just knew from being told it on here.

 

[Nisha]

How many Babirusa are there now at South Lakes?

Last count - 1.1 and possibly another 0.1 or 0.2 depending on whether they have moved some or all of the last few offspring on yet

 

[gentle lemur]

A species that TLD missed from his list of ones that might disappear soon is the St Vincent amazon. I went to Hayle this week with the principal aim of photographing this old male: I think he's the last one in the UK. He's also one of the largest and, in my opinion, the most beautiful parrots in the country.



Alan

 

[Pertinax]

I think he's the last one in the UK.

I remember seeing two of these at Hayle when it first opened in the early 1970's. First ones I'd seen (and none since I don't think...)) I think those two birds may have been both of one sex at that time. I wonder- did they later go on to breed them at all?

 

[gentle lemur]

According to the label on the aviary, which I should have photographed too , so I hope I have remembered correctly. The original pair failed for several years, but 2 chicks were eventually hand-raised. The female chick was paired with a new male and they had 2 chicks too. But this female eventually died and the second male was sent to a collection in France. So I think this is one of the birds you saw.
This was my first visit to Hayle, but I saw this species in Jersey in the early 1980s.

Alan

 

[TeaLovingDave]

A very nice bird indeed; did you see any other "brink treasures" over at Hayle?

 

[Hevden]

Do they still have the yellow-faced siskins?

 

[gentle lemur]

Do they still have the yellow-faced siskins?

Yes, a pair in the Tropical House. They were smaller than I expected and the male at least was hyperactive, so no photos I'm afraid.

did you see any other "brink treasures" over at Hayle?

I didn't see all the species listed in Zootierliste, I'm not sure which of the missing ones were off-show and which were gone. The species I didn't see included Hawk-headed parrot and St Lucia amazon (), I also missed the golden-fronted parakeets, but unless the keeper had put food into an empty aviary - they were just shy.
On the plus side there was a single red-tailed amazon in a big communal aviary in the Parrot Jungle and a pair of young grey-breasted conures in one of the breeding aviaries in the walled garden (they came from Chester where their parents are off-show in the new block in the banteng paddock). There were also Bicheno finches in the Australian finch aviary, which I can't remember seeing before.

Alan

I forgot to say explicitly that I did see the Rajah lories. Photos to follow.
Just remembered the pair of Stella's lorikeets too, they were hard to see but definitely present.