Mixed wader aviary, empty for refurbishment, August 2008. Formerly held egrets, ducks, black-necked swans, avocets, plovers and storks. The flight is over 100 metres long.
In here the golden-headed Golden Lion Tamarins had been seperated.
There were no agoutis in the main area.
There seemed to be a few less sun bittern and I couldn't spot the tortoise.
The baby titi was really cool.
One of the oldest buildings at London Zoo. The Decimus Burton house forms part of the cotton terraces which held a wide range of hoofstock many years ago. Now, the cotton terraces hold a smaller variety of animals.
The Decimus Burton house has always held giraffes.
Taken 2007
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.