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Chester Zoo Memories Small Mammal House exterior 1983

Chester Zoo Memories
For nostalgic ZooChat members another old photo of Chester Zoo.... Old pictures bring on a feeling of warm nostalgia. Species no longer kept, lost enclosures, lost corridors. I thought it might be nice if members added them with the title 'Chester Zoo Memories' to make searching easier... What do you think? I'll be adding more Memories over time. This interesting photo of a building much discussed on this web site. The Small Mammal House. Pictured here in August 1983 just prior to re-vamp. The exterior cages were a month later demolished and re-built aviary style right up to the front door where smaller 'aviaries' housed marmosets and tamarins.
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Chester Zoo Memories
For nostalgic ZooChat members another old photo of Chester Zoo.... Old pictures bring on a feeling of warm nostalgia. Species no longer kept, lost enclosures, lost corridors. I thought it might be nice if members added them with the title 'Chester Zoo Memories' to make searching easier... What do you think? I'll be adding more Memories over time. This interesting photo of a building much discussed on this web site. The Small Mammal House. Pictured here in August 1983 just prior to re-vamp. The exterior cages were a month later demolished and re-built aviary style right up to the front door where smaller 'aviaries' housed marmosets and tamarins.
 
And behind the hedge was a waterfowl pond, still surviving as the reed bed by the elephants.
 
I can remember it shortly after it opened. It's a great pity that Chester now keeps so few of the species that were kept there over the years.

Alan
 
There were a great number of species in this house over the years, and Alan is correct, a group now sadly under-represented by the zoo.

And. Flowers. ;)
 

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