If it held Rabbits, I'd say it could easily house about 10 in comfort! (Nothing to do with Rabbits or Raccoons, but I'm now smiling at my first sight of Southport's Pet Barn when the Guinea Pigs were so tightly packed I couldn't see the floor of their cage. That's what I call a proper zoo!)
This enclosure now houses a group of squirrels. They're labelled as Prevost's but they're actually Callosciurus ferrugineus - the only public European holding.
This enclosure now houses a group of squirrels. They're labelled as Prevost's but they're actually Callosciurus ferrugineus - the only public European holding.
Brilliant, thanks for this.
The armadillos were what prompted my visit - they are Chaetophractus vellerosus although I'd hoped they were a species I hadn't seen before.
There's a little video on that link in my post as well, but it doesn't show the squirrels.
I couldn't find much beyond that link, and their own website which shows photo of a Bornean pluto Prevost's from off the internet. This may be entirely inaccurate, but the establishment strikes me as the sort of place run by people who don't know so much. So my suspicion would be that they got the squirrels as "tri-coloured squirrels" from a breeder, googled the name and got Prevost's Squirrel, found a photo of one of those that looked closest, and that's where their ID came from.
