The Tarkin enclosure was the orginal Maned Wolf encolsure built in the late 70,s,later to house Capbarbara, then Okapi. to the left was Peccaries, the Lynx enclosure was to the left of the Tarkin, which housed Northern and Caracal Lynx. The single Wild Boar was housed on the site of the original Gibbon house.
I was not aware the maned wolf were originally housed on this side of the zoo, I had always thought the maned wolves were housed in what is the lower end of the new cheetah exhibit.
I am also pretty sure that the first pair of okapi were held in yards on the north side of the old giraffe house until they moved to their current location.
If I'm wrong on either of these, I'd really appreciate some more information on these as I'm fascinated to imagine okapi being kept in the woodland area at Marwell....
I was not aware the maned wolf were originally housed on this side of the zoo, I had always thought the maned wolves were housed in what is the lower end of the new cheetah exhibit.
I am also pretty sure that the first pair of okapi were held in yards on the north side of the old giraffe house until they moved to their current location.
If I'm wrong on either of these, I'd really appreciate some more information on these as I'm fascinated to imagine okapi being kept in the woodland area at Marwell....
The first Manned were housed on the South Rd. this was in the late 70,s prior to myself starting there as a Keeper in 81 by this time they had died, i belive to a worm infestasion.I maybe wrong reguarding the Okapi, but belive was an single animal housed in the same house,around mid to late 80,s, by the time i returned to Marwell in 92,they were in the Giraffe house as u say on the left hand side,which in the earley 80,s housed the Congo Buff,s then the Sable Antelope.
