Grzimek House Interior at Frankfurt 31/08/10

Out of that whole list I've seen 9 of the species. It's amazing that you can see all of them in one building in Frankfurt.

Hix said:

I last visited the Grzimekhaus in February 1984 (and loved it then as much as Maguari loves it now), so unless it has changed the first few exhibits (entering at ground level) and the last eighteen exhibits are diurnal enclosures, everything in between is nocturnal.

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Hope this was of some interest.

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The lighting arrangements are still as you describe.


There's some stuff on that list to make me jealous, Hix!

(still just chuffed to see a kiwi at last, though!)

Some day I'll get around to transcribing into ZooChat all my notes from the different zoos I visited on that trip in 1984.

It took all my persuasion (and a few hissed threats about no ice cream) to get my 6 year old in here because she was terrified of the giant bat overhanging the entrance !

Great collection though ..... in fact, for a city zoo, I thought Frankfurt was pretty good all round, with the notable exception of the awful hippo pool.

@GillP.
Yes, the hippo pool at Frankfurt Zoo isnt't nice, but otherwise, the hippo do have many things which all the animals in the GRizmekhouse doesn't have: Fresh Air, Sunlight, Wind, rain...The exhibits at the Grizmekhouse are also much to small for most of the species there, so for all Primates, the Tamanduas, the Slothes, Aardvarks, Aye-Aye's and many more. It is time to replace this old building.

Another interesting info:Taipei Zoo is closing down his huge Nocturnal house, because the zoopeople decided to keep all this animals also in outdoor exhibits, because its better for them than just be kept indoors.....

Hix said:

Some day I'll get around to transcribing into ZooChat all my notes from the different zoos I visited on that trip in 1984.

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I know this was posted before I even joined ZooChat but just wondered if you'd ever started to sort your notes out Hix? I'd love to know what you thought of your Euro trip (which happened before I was born...)!

Has anyone been to this house recently? What species are on display there now?

I'b been to the Zoo a couple of days ago. No new Species added to the Grzimekhouse, so the inventory is constant since the arrival of the Quolls. More and more exhibits are occupied by the same species. I will do a list of the species later the day.

NIGHTSECTION:

Barbary Striped Grass Mouse
Lesser Hedgehog tenrec
Kowari
Two-Toed Sloth
Nightmonkey
Large Hairy Armadillo
Coendu
Panay Clouded Rat
Greater Dwarf lemur
Asian garden Dormouse
Slender Lori
Seba's short-tailed bat
Quoll
Springhare
Senegal-Galago
Aardvark
Aye-Aye
Lesser mouse lemur
Tamandua
Tibesti-Spinymouse
Pygmy Glider (Feathertail glider)
Australian Waterrat
Greater Dwarf Lemur
Echidna
Tawny Frogmouth

DAYSECTION:

Golden Spiny Mouse
Tupaia
Golden Lion Tamarin
Asian Small Clawed otter
Short-eared Elephant shrew
Whitefaced saki
Greater guineapig
Lesser mouse deer
Green Acouchi
Barbary striped grass mouse
Green winged pytilia
Gundi
Squirrl Monkey
Cape Ground Squirrl
Sociable Weaver
Pygmy Marmoset
common dwarf mongoose
Komodo dragon

Are you sure you mean Panay Cloud Rat - which I don't think has ever been at Frankfurt - rather than Northern Luzon Cloud Rat, which is the taxon which they definitely have held previously?