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View of the Elephant House from the SVR

Question time:

1) Is there only the 2 female African elephants at the park?
2) Does anyone know the square footage of the barn?
3) Are there windows or skylights anywhere on the structure?
4) Is this barn actually used to house elephants? If so, is the entrance to the exhibit not in the photo?
 
Question time:

1) Is there only the 2 female African elephants at the park?
2) Does anyone know the square footage of the barn?
3) Are there windows or skylights anywhere on the structure?
4) Is this barn actually used to house elephants? If so, is the entrance to the exhibit not in the photo?

I can answer a few but not all:

1) Yup, only two left. Originally 2.2 arrived as youngsters from South Africa (I believe from Kruger!)

3) I last visited in 2008/09 and cannot remember any windows or skylights on the structure.
 
Question time:

1) Is there only the 2 female African elephants at the park?
2) Does anyone know the square footage of the barn?
3) Are there windows or skylights anywhere on the structure?
4) Is this barn actually used to house elephants? If so, is the entrance to the exhibit not in the photo?

1) Just the 2 females now.
2) Sorry have no idea but has to be the smallest house that I have seen in the UK.
3) If memory surves me correctly the 3 small grey squares along the top of the roof are skylights and no indows that I can think of.
4) If you look on the end of the building to the right of the picture you can see a grey area in the middle,which is the doors out to the paddock,this picture was taken at around 9:10am on a saturday morning so as a result the Elephants were still shut inside,I believe they only move them outside at about 9:50am which is just about 10 minutes before the park opens!
 
I agree with zg, this house is definitely the smallest I've seen in the UK and I think it's probably inadequate for two elephants let alone the four they originally had!


And it took me a few minutes to realise what SVR stood for... Genius! :p
 
I agree with zg, this house is definitely the smallest I've seen in the UK and I think it's probably inadequate for two elephants let alone the four they originally had!


And it took me a few minutes to realise what SVR stood for... Genius! :p
And you call yourself a local and you don't know what the SVR is,what are we going to do with you Brum????
 

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