It is a very well hidden enclosure. It is at the rear of the fossa enclosure (if they still have them as they are not listed as having them on isis). You can get in to it by a path to one side of the customer services building.
In all the colchester enclosures contain a lot of mock rock it seems to be in nearly every photo of colchester's enclosures. Why does their need to be so much mock rock?
- it really is over-kill, a bit is okay but the amount colchester uses is reallu over-kill
In all the colchester enclosures contain a lot of mock rock it seems to be in nearly every photo of colchester's enclosures. Why does their need to be so much mock rock?
- it really is over-kill, a bit is okay but the amount colchester uses is reallu over-kill
I don't mind fake rockwork when its looks like rocks - but Colchester does seem to just use it to cover every available surface. 'Wall of fake rock with windows in it' is something of a Colchester exhibit trademark!
I don't mind fake rockwork when its looks like rocks - but Colchester does seem to just use it to cover every available surface. 'Wall of fake rock with windows in it' is something of a Colchester exhibit trademark!
To be completely honest, anything the zoo wants to try! Outside the exhibit, then cladding or planting to tie in with the setting - Colchester's not exactly a woodland idyll or a rolling grassland so I don't think they're onto a winner with trying to look natural. I would go for either smart brick or natural stone in that case; or else quite a dark timber cladding with planting in front. And then I would try to design the exhibit so that the sight lines didn't include a view of the inside of a wall with windows in it!
Or they could just get better at the rockwork so it doesn't look like fake rockwork.
