How many chimps are in here? Looks like a good cage, as in it could keep the chimps satisfied, but it just seems a bit small. The roof could be a bit higher too.
I am very interested in learning more about the chimpanzee in this link
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His name is Kumi and I want to find out if he was born in London Zoo, moved to Whipsnade in England, was sent to Rostov Zoo, and now perhaps has landed here.
If you can look into this I would appreciate it. Many of us got to know him well as he was hand raised with his thuggish half-brother Joma.
His name is Kumi and I want to find out if he was born in London Zoo, moved to Whipsnade in England, was sent to Rostov Zoo, and now perhaps has landed here.
If you can look into this I would appreciate it. Many of us got to know him well as he was hand raised with his thuggish half-brother Joma.
The enclosure is for the chimps, not for us. As long as the chimps are stimulated, active, breeding and healthy, naturalistic or not is not important.
As to the mention of Howletts above, yes indeed, not very naturalistic facilities, but the gorillas bred and still breed there like rats, so Aspinall was doing something right. If our purpose with zoos is to support wild populations through ex-situ breeding, that is what we want, right?
I couldn't agree more Baldur. Some people think that because it doesn't look like the Congo, then it's not acceptable because we won't have as much respect for the animals or their natural habitat, which in some ways is true as it's ultimately the habitat that needs protecting, but I think this type of thing is much better than any number of hotwired trees
