Not a very good photo but maybe interesting to those who remember the old red wooden 'Friendship Farm' buildings and this must have been just after the cable car was built(?)
I have a picture with the farmyard in the background and me smiling with the fennec fox ear model (the one next to the current fennec fox exhibit) in the foreground?
Have a look on this map, the Aldabran Tortoises are still in the same place, and you can see the road running beside them round the back of the farm (what is now the elephant precinct).
The road behind the current location of the fennec ears has always had the Aldabrans, unless the ears were moved at some point, but as far as I'm aware they have always been beside the fennecs.
And yes, the farm was closed sometime in the first half of the 2000's in order to begin construction of the elephant precenct.
Have a look on this map, the Aldabran Tortoises are still in the same place, and you can see the road running beside them round the back of the farm (what is now the elephant precinct).
The road behind the current location of the fennec ears has always had the Aldabrans, unless the ears were moved at some point, but as far as I'm aware they have always been beside the fennecs.
And yes, the farm was closed sometime in the first half of the 2000's in order to begin construction of the elephant precenct.
Thanks for that Hix. Interesting, the fennec fox ears could have been moved to their current location after the photo was taken, so that might explain why the farmyard is in my picture.
