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.
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.
That fits - from what I know of where the elaphus/pannoniensis geographic threshold is meant to be, hippelaphus in the traditional sense would certainly be paraphyletic.
It was, had a week off work for a holiday [why I originally couldn't make ZooHistorica] but it got cancelled for family reasons.
By then it was too late to get to the Czech, so had a few separate trips elsewhere:
Living Coasts, Shaldon, Paignton on the Saturday
Blue Planet and Chester on Sunday
Reaseheath on Monday
Knowsley on Thursday
Cleethorpes, Mablethorpe, Skegness and The Parrot Zoo on Saturday
