Typical enclosures (these ones for Amazon Parrots)

These structures - without any apparent support, just the curved mesh - dominate here. Functional, certainly, but not especially attractive.

My memory may be playing tricks on me here, but I think that even the jaguars were in similarly designed but larger enclosures. It was a while ago but I don't think I'm imagining it?

@Brum No, you're absolutely right. The cat enclosures are built in a similar vein....

As I said on the thread, I think these are designed to be able to be taken down quickly, same as the tropical house. Something to do with not actually owning the land but leasing it.
On a different note, is it still ran by Ken Sims and/or Thrigby Wildlife Gardens?

@Brum On the Amazona thread, mention is made of it having been sold a few years ago.

Nisha said:

Amazona has been sold to new owners
Cromer estate owner aims to make zoo a roaring success - Business - Eastern Daily Press

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The new owners don't appear to have done a great deal since taking over.....

I figured as much, Thrigby has some novel displays and a very nice (but small) species selection. Quite the opposite of the way Amazona has gone...

I can't understand the comment regarding the Thrigby displays. Whilst I agree entirely on Thrigby having more interesting species, there are several exhibits there that are of virtually identical design to those at Amazona: 4 gibbon cages , the 2 snow leopard cages, 3 Amur leopard cages and the crab-eating Macaques!

@pipaluk The only cages I recall like these are the macaque and a gibbon enclosure, but (I think?) the macaques at least had an overhead tunnel over the path to another enclosure. I also appreciate the sturdiness of the houses and cat cloisters compared to the makeshift approach at Amazona. Could be memory playing tricks but Thrigby just seems more permanently zoo-like, for want of a better expression.

Some of the enclosures are much better, but all the enclosures I mentioned are the same circular cages as seen at Amazona

If you look in the Thrigby gallery there are several photos of the Snow Leopard /Leopard enclosures

Also the indoor 'houses ' for those species resemble little more than a (large) rabbit hutch if I remember correctly

After a quick gLance through the gallery it does appear I 21st being slightly generous with my praise towards the leopard enclosures, but stand by my assessment of the macaque and gibbon enclosures.

And for clarity I meant the swamp house and tropical house at Thrigby being sturdy, not the cat accommodation. Sorry for the misunderstanding.