Colchester Zoo Colchester Zoo news 2016

TeaLovingDave said:
The problem is that the vast majority of Slenders in European collections are either Emmen-born or descended from Emmen stock - as such, unrelated males may be hard to obtain.
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Do we know whether Europe's existing slender-snouts are of the West African form or the Central African? If it was the former, it would probably be prudent to source some new animals, perhaps from Abidjan Zoo, and funding their conservation projects in return.
 
DesertRhino150 said:
Do we know whether Europe's existing slender-snouts are of the West African form or the Central African? If it was the former, it would probably be prudent to source some new animals, perhaps from Abidjan Zoo, and funding their conservation projects in return.
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If I am right then Emmens breeding pair are one of each,but until the test results are done we will not know!
 
zoogiraffe said:
If I am right then Emmens breeding pair are one of each,but until the test results are done we will not know!
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That is interesting. It would still be preferable in my view to instate a breeding program and try to acquire more stock of each in order that perhaps some form of ex situ / in situ cooperation and transatlantic conservation breeding effort might be set up. After all, both slender snouted species are equally in dire straits ...
 
4ways NAP said:
6. zoo only has two male red-capped mangabey left in the collection
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Not correct. I've since been told( by the Zoo) they still have 2.2.- these will be the four in the Mangabey Forest no doubt, although one might now be seperate, I don't know.

The three other(newer) females did apparently go to Apenheul sometime in the last few months.
 
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Pertinax said:
Not correct. I've since been told( by the Zoo) they still have 2.2.- these will be the four in the Mangabey Forest no doubt, although one might now be seperate, I don't know.

The three other(newer) females did apparently go to Apenheul sometime in the last few months.
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My assumption here isn't quite correct either. There are only two males on display- but they do still have 2.2.
 
Visited this afternoon:

1.New Female hunting dog arrived on Thursday, is seperated from the rest at the moment and can be seen from the train

2. Red pandas still seperate

3. Tiga was quite active outside today, does rajang ever go outside?????

4. Only saw 4 Rhino, 3 in behind the bars and one out in the paddock. whos left now? Ony 2 great kudha too and only 3 zebra

5. so many komado dragon enclosures

6. chimps outdoor area stil being done, cant see it being ready for ages

7. 2 wolves now. another two to arrive shortly

8. Still never seen the ardvarks awake

9 could only see two mangabey monkeys

10. ants are back

11. saw one of the sloths active for the first time!!!!
 
Where did the female Hunting Dog come from? How many males have they got now with two having recently left

Rhinos - should be Flossie, Emily, Mabaso and Otto. They appear to have delayed bringing in Astrid for now (possibly waiting until Otto has left?)
 
Nisha said:
Where did the female Hunting Dog come from? How many males have they got now with two having recently left

Rhinos - should be Flossie, Emily, Mabaso and Otto. They appear to have delayed bringing in Astrid for now (possibly waiting until Otto has left?)
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I saw 3 and think the train driver said was 3 males, what happened to the other male? wernt there 6 males at one time?
 
Two of them went to Chester on 30th June - which indicates they've lost one of the original 6
 
al222 said:
9 could only see two mangabey monkeys
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Full explanation. There are currently only the two males(father and son, I believe) on display. There are two unrelated females off-show which will form a new group with them. These were imported from Europe some while back now, to add to their existing group- which would have made a total of 2.5, but the dominant breeding female rejected them. Instead she and her two daughters were the three that were sent to Apenheul, leaving just the two newer females to form a new group with the existing males.
 
pipaluk said:
Is that quite correct that Astrid won't have been in with animals other than rhino before? I'm sure the rhino were mixed until fairly recently at Cotswold WP?
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The zebra were moved out of the main paddock some time ago at CWP , perhaps before Astrid was born . No other species are kept with the rhinos .
 
Bele said:
The zebra were moved out of the main paddock some time ago at CWP , perhaps before Astrid was born . No other species are kept with the rhinos .
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I may be wrong then, but Astrid was born in 2013. I first visited CWP in 2014 & the Zebra weren't in their current paddock then. The Eland arrived after that, we're they not in rhino paddock?
 
Astrid etc

1/When Asrid was very young she was attacked by a zebra which resulted in the zebras at Cotswold being moved.The Elan were never mixed with the rhino and returned the safari park they came from (Knowsley?)

2/The station by the Africa exhibit is due to have a covering and a bush dogs enclosure will be built

3/Two new male wolves are to join the bachelor group.
 
trachycarpus said:
1/When Asrid was very young she was attacked by a zebra which resulted in the zebras at Cotswold being moved.The Elan were never mixed with the rhino and returned the safari park they came from (Knowsley?)

2/The station by the Africa exhibit is due to have a covering and a bush dogs enclosure will be built

3/Two new male wolves are to join the bachelor group.
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Where abouts will the bush dogs go, wil be good to see colchester get a new species. as seem to be loosing a few!!
 
Went for a visit today (very hot, so a lot of the animals were rather inactive).

- On the bush dog front, I saw no signage nor did I hear any announcements about their arrival or where they would go
- There are now three male African hunting dogs, and a female has arrived - she is being housed in the black-backed jackal enclosure along the road train track and will be introduced to the three males with hope of establishing a breeding group
- The wolves will be a non-breeding male group; I overheard one keeper telling some other people about the circumstances surrounding the wolves' escape - it seems that a fox on the outside of the enclosure was involved, either in undermining the fence itself or encouraging the wolves to do so themselves
- The Victoria crowned pigeon pair in Penguin Shores are on a nest, and the enclosure previously housing the fledgling in Wilds of Asia is now empty
- Akio the young gibbon was outdoors today while his parents were confined to the indoor areas
- The Lake Victoria cichlids that lived in the slender-snouted crocodile pool have now been removed
- At least one owl butterfly caterpillar in Butterfly Glade now, with hundreds of eggs also on the one banana plant in the exhibit
- Blue duikers were now out in the main exhibit, although the blue cranes they share with have been moved off-show
- Both Nile monitors have either moved off-show or left the collection, the larger of the two enclosures still apparently houses the lungfish while the smaller is home to radiated tortoises and Madagascar tree boas, the exact same mix as the third enclosure in this row
- For some reason, only two mandrills appeared to be out in the main enclosure with the others seemingly off-show
 
I think the bush dogs are going next to the train station. I dont think you will be able to see them unless you queue for the train.
 
Went for another visit today - it seems very little has changed since my last visit (although the chimp outdoor enclosure continues to progress):

- Two grey crowned cranes chicks that hatched on the 2nd August are visible mixed with the dik-dik in Edge of Africa
- The Victoria crowned pigeons have had a chick, which has already fledged the nest
- The spotted porcupinefish in the reef tank in Kingdom of the Wild has been replaced by an African golden pufferfish (a colour variant of the guineafowl pufferfish, I believe)
- One of the Madagascar tree boas in Kingdom of the Wild has been given access to both the radiated tortoise enclosure and the lungfish enclosure, which has now had branches positioned over it
- For the first time, I managed to successfully see the Costa Rican tiger-rump tarantula in the Discovery Centre (only the back of its abdomen and one of its legs)
 
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