The Eurosafari is a series of large ungulate paddocks that are designed to be viewed from the rather bumpy ride of super-charged road train. Trememdous fun.
The Eurosafari is a series of large ungulate paddocks that are designed to be viewed from the rather bumpy ride of super-charged road train. Tremendous fun.
Still not familiar with the 'new' (Groves/Grubb) Cervus, so had to check that one. Yes, this is what was traditionally C. e. hippelaphus, so would come under that species in Groves/Grubb.
However, in European zoos the name 'hippelaphus'/Carpathian is applied pretty widely (over 250 holders, mostly in Germany, on Zootierliste), so I wouldn't be so sure all of those about were so distinct.
Here's another photo showing more of the dark 'mane' (there's another good one I'll post in its own right later on). It seemed to be an all-male group.
I don't have my book with me, but hippelaphus I think they showed to be not valid as it had been used for multiple subspecies (or something like that, there was some taxonomic validity problem with it at any rate).
Probably not as exciting, but I had an 11 collection stint last week and have some pics up from that, including Skegness, Mablethorpe, Living Coasts and Paignton
Probably not as exciting, but I had an 11 collection stint last week and have some pics up from that, including Skegness, Mablethorpe, Living Coasts and Paignton
I did some more reading on hippelaphus when I got home. Turns out hippelaphus is paraphyletic (animals ascribed to this name actually belong to two different non-related clades). The animals in the Carpathian mountains are possibly hybrids between C. elaphus and C. pannoniensis. Jury is still out on those animals.
