2007 In Review - Uk

The caiman hatched at Blackpool, after which staff realised the adults were in fact a male and a female and not two females as previously thought.

I don't know where howletts got the wolves or Geladas from, I think the geladas are just a few immature males, I'm not 100%, I know some disappeared from edinburgh around the same time that they arrived at Howletts, but this may just be coincidental. I think the Iberian wolves actually arrived in 2006, but produced their first cubs this year.
 
Howletts Geladas are listed as 1.1. I imagine they'll want to add a couple more females if they can get them from somewhere.
 
Pertinax said:
Howletts Geladas are listed as 1.1. I imagine they'll want to add a couple more females if they can get them from somewhere.
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They may have got them(the 1.1) from Stuttgart, which has a large group. This is where their Drills came from. Also Edinburgh aren't shown as having any now- I wonder if that's correct, or more likely an ommission...
 
Pertinax said:
Also Edinburgh aren't shown as having any now- I wonder if that's correct, or more likely an ommission...
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When ivisited Edinburgh 2 weeks ago the 2 males had been sent to a zoo in France, and their quarters are being used as a quarantine for a small group of Barbary macaques from Germany.
 
Well, Edinburgh didn't go into Geladas for very long, did they? :(

So its still only two UK zoos holding this species, but now its Colchester and Howletts.
 
I can't imagine Edinburgh being without geladas for too long as they have spent a lot of money and space on a new exhibit designed for them and they are in the masterplan too.
 
kiang said:
I can't imagine Edinburgh being without geladas for too long as they have spent a lot of money and space on a new exhibit designed for them and they are in the masterplan too.
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Okay, so they'll be getting some more in due course. The biggest group in Europe is- or it used to be in Rheine Zoo Germany, but they don't seem listed as having them now(they used to have a breeding group and a batchelor group) The other big group is at Stuttgart.

I imagine Howletts will want to add to their single pair as well.
 
Pertinax said:
Okay, so they'll be getting some more in due course. The biggest group in Europe is- or it used to be in Rheine Zoo Germany, but they don't seem listed as having them now(they used to have a breeding group and a batchelor group) The other big group is at Stuttgart.

I imagine Howletts will want to add to their single pair as well.
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They now have to large breeding groups now at Rheine Zoo i believe most of the batchelor groups that other place get are the surplus males from here.
 
Yes, I think Colchester's came from there, and Edinburgh's(they ones they had) came from Colchester? Colchester firstly had three batchelors, then these were later replaced by the breeding group they have now.
 
Pertinax said:
Yes, I think Colchester's came from there, and Edinburgh's(they ones they had) came from Colchester? Colchester firstly had three batchelors, then these were later replaced by the breeding group they have now.
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I meant that they came from Rheine.....
 
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