This is one of the elephants in Boras Zoo. In the backround , you see the fantastic Savanna! Here lives Zebras , Elephants , Elands, Bontebok, Giraffes , Ostrish and buffels! Boras have white rhinos to, but they live togheter with the Cheetahs.
This is one of the elephants in Boras Zoo. In the backround , you see the fantastic Savanna! Here lives Zebras , Elephants , Elands, Bontebok, Giraffes , Ostrish and buffels! Boras have white rhinos to, but they live togheter with the Cheetahs.
It has been working well since the mid-1960s, when the concept was introduced. To my knowledge without any accidents ever.
23 000 square meters - about 4 acres. The herd spend most of its time here, together with zebras, giraffes etc. Lately even with caffer buffaloes! The bull is kept in two adjoning encloures. The combined size of those enclousers for the bull would be something like at least 5000 square meters, I believe.
The Borås Zoo - a zoo in city with only about 60 000 inhabitants - has always been a forerunner as far as animal welfare at the zoo is concerned. What other zoo in the world could praise themself of keeping their seals in a natural lake with a surface of 11 000 square meters?
@Dan: I will agree that Borås is great in most of their enclosures. But the lake with the seals, even though it is huge, is not ideal. Seals should have access to saltwater for swimming in. This has proven to actually have health and skin benefits.
If they wish to still keep seals in their lake, they should switch to baikal seals (that actually live in freshwater).
@Dan: I will agree that Borås is great in most of their enclosures. But the lake with the seals, even though it is huge, is not ideal. Seals should have access to saltwater for swimming in. This has proven to actually have health and skin benefits.
If they wish to still keep seals in their lake, they should switch to baikal seals (that actually live in freshwater).
Longleat keep California Sea Lions in a half-mile long freshwater lake. They breed every year, get a supplement of the vitamins they need which they usually get from saltwater in the fish the keepers give them and they can also catch wild fish that swim in the lake.
@Dan: I will agree that Borås is great in most of their enclosures. But the lake with the seals, even though it is huge, is not ideal. Seals should have access to saltwater for swimming in. This has proven to actually have health and skin benefits.
If they wish to still keep seals in their lake, they should switch to baikal seals (that actually live in freshwater).
I am sure that is a reasonable argument, but I remember the zoo adresssing it on their website - something about the animal´s diet to get around the problem, some form of supplement - perhaps some "salt pills" or something...
