A male pheasant resulting from the project to resotre the Imperial Pheasant (Lophura imperialis).
The bird was bred from a male Imperial Pheasant paired to a female pheasant who was the daughter of a Silver Pheasant crossed with a male Silver Pheasant x female Imperial Pheasant hybrid.
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A male Turkmenian Markhor (Capra falconeri jerdoni). They were kept on the upper level of the Mappin Terraces. There is a story of one of these animals walking along the top of the perimiter fence (like a tigtrope walker), turning around and returning to the enclosure without putting a foot wrong.