1.All tropical hoofstock were put in for the night also in summer times,rhinos and elephants at 4pm....many zoos allow them to use outdoor exhibits in the night in summer times.
Not accurate as far as my observations at Tierpark Berlin in April 2014 go; a handful of hoofstock taxa were put away for the night prior to closing time but quite a few - including the mountain reedbuck and chacoan peccary - were still outside when I left the collection shortly after closing time.
2.Male antelopes, domestic sheep and goats are seperated from the group to avoid"winter births",only in autumn they spend a couple of weeks with the females
Again, not accurate as far as my observations at Tierpark Berlin in April 2014 go - I cannot think of any antelope or caprine taxa which had males seperated from the females. This includes all the hoofstock in the "Highland" area, along with taxa such as the gerenuk, Mhorr gazelle and takins held elsewhere. In point of fact, there are quite a few photographs in the gallery demonstrating this point.
Before I had seen the comments under this photo, I posted a near identical response to a different picture of the sun bear house (http://www.zoochat.com/141/very-poor-sun-bear-enclosures-417004/): the "I love the Tierpark, but even so...." thought, and the historical snippet as well. Should I be worried if my thoughts go in exactly the same direction as Tim May's?
I have it on good authority that Tim is making a steady recovery; I feel sure that people will realise that sharing thoughts with sooty has been a nasty shock for him.
I visited Tierpark last week and the Sun Bears are still housed in the same poor enclosure. They looked very sad for themselves. Definitely took the shine off the visit.
