So, the old cage was replaced by........a slightly taller replica of the old cage?
What I don't understand is that they were able to create a hotwired enclosure for the wolves, they have several clumps of trees on the site..........why dont they spend the money they would have otherwise spent on steel caging on some electric fencing and allow the primates access to open areas?
The mandrill arrived as a baby , which was being hand-reared , along with other primates -spider monkeys and gibbons - when Southport Zoo closed . I assume that the spider monkey proved to be compatible with it . I do not believe the spider monkey to be one of the two very old animals from Southport . When I saw them they were being housed in a meshed-over stall in the Barn and looking sorry for themselves - I suspect they did not survive very long .
An improvement on the original cage. They are obviously making an effort to get things improved but I rather agree its not very imaginative and still very small. As Johnstoni says, why haven't they thought of hotwiring larger areas instead of building these small lab-style cages I wonder?
more then likely its lack of funds. let us remember that this is a rescue centre that is situated in an area that wont recieve the customers that zoos do. the priority is animal welfare, and thats what they have, the enclosures are fine, could do with being bigger, but its not urgent. an idea i was thinking however, was to split the open gibbon enclosure in two, or maybe three to make the most of the space.....
