islands

Hello everybody, I introduce my speculative zoo thread for 2024. Here I will present 12 different projects, one per month. The first one is dedicated to the Islands of the World. Before releasing the map (I'll do it within the coming days), I explain that zoo is a re-edition of a previous...

The entirety of my work since the last update, focusing on the island of Sumatra within Islands, including species such as Sumatran orangutans, Tigers, Sun bears, Malayan tapirs and Javan Green Magpies.

The entirety of Islands so far - I have finished Sumatra apart from a couple of small viewing huts etc, and same broadly goes for Sulawesi.

The exhibit consists of a rather large island, encircled by a moat full of koi, pond skaters and frogs. The howlers come out in the afternoon. I was lucky enough to hear the howlers vocalising, and surprisingly it sounded like a sort of growling? Got an audio recording if anyone wants to hear...

*taken from Windows Live maps* Going anti-clockwise: 1st island: Lion-tailed Macaque 2nd island: Mandrill 3rd island: Sulawesi Macaque and the other enclosure which joins the house, is home to Columbian Black Spider Monkeys

Solomon Island skink (Corucia zebrata) at zoo Jihlava, in monkeyhouse, taken March 2008.

I just thought that i'd upload the current version of the 1957 pic of the Chimp Islands. It's taken from the Realm of the Red Ape pathway and is taken from a pretty similar angle.

A picture of a Komodo Dragon at Chester Zoo

I photo I took on the 24th April 2006 of a female Mandrill at Chester Zoo

Chester Zoo's Islands In Danger area houses Komodo Dragons, Bird's of Paradise, Victoria Crowned Pigeons, St Lucia Parrots etc.