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Oh how I laughed.
Is this place considered to be one of the worst zoos in the UK? Between this and the seemingly staged otter-bear fight in one of the other photos it looks quite awful.
 
What I'm puzzled about is that they capitalised the "through" :confused:

Most likely they've hit 'Enter' between each line of that sentence, so their word processing/DTP software has assumed each line is a new sentence and auto-capitalised.

Basically just someone who could do with a hour or two's DTP training (and being told lemurs are not monkeys) and this sign would look much better.
 
Is this place considered to be one of the worst zoos in the UK? Between this and the seemingly staged otter-bear fight in one of the other photos it looks quite awful.

I have never been there so I cannot fairly comment on that- but if you read all you can on here about this place it might lead you to that conclusion.;)
 
Is this place considered to be one of the worst zoos in the UK? Between this and the seemingly staged otter-bear fight in one of the other photos it looks quite awful.

or one of the best, depending on your personal point of view, the marmite of the Zoo world.
 
I have never been there so I cannot fairly comment on that- but if you read all you can on here about this place it might lead you to that conclusion.;)

I'd recommend you visited, then you can judge for yourself rather than all the bad reports. I agree that most of the collection is badly presented however, they have achieved some good breeding records, e.g. Babirusa and Southern White Rhinos to name a few.
 
I'd recommend you visited, then you can judge for yourself rather than all the bad reports. I agree that most of the collection is badly presented however, they have achieved some good breeding records, e.g. Babirusa and Southern White Rhinos to name a few.

It is at the other end of the country for me but I have to say I've never felt any desire to go there. I recently visited another place with a poor reputation- Noah's Ark outside Bristol, and that is even worse than I expected from the various photos. I rather expect SL would strike me the same way.:(
 
I would say the Sumatran Tiger and Giant Otter exhibits are the best they have. The baboons are always active and make a good display.
 
I'd recommend you visited, then you can judge for yourself rather than all the bad reports. I agree that most of the collection is badly presented however, they have achieved some good breeding records, e.g. Babirusa and Southern White Rhinos to name a few.
on one of the other threads you stated that South Lakes is one of your favourite collections, and yet here you "agree that most of the collection is badly presented". To me, the second opinion would mean the first opinion would be untenable. A zoo could breed a million babirusa a year and have a whole host of rarely-seen species, but if it was all housed in a dodgy fashion then it would immediately drop out of any running for my "favourite" position.
 
on one of the other threads you stated that South Lakes is one of your favourite collections, and yet here you "agree that most of the collection is badly presented". To me, the second opinion would mean the first opinion would be untenable. A zoo could breed a million babirusa a year and have a whole host of rarely-seen species, but if it was all housed in a dodgy fashion then it would immediately drop out of any running for my "favourite" position.

It was but having visited several better Zoo's I have now realized how badly presented the Park is. I have also noticed how it is shockingly run.
 

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