Chester Zoo A Few Questions

[LeeMac13]

Ive just been reading some information about Chester Zoo and wondered if the following things were true.


Guenon where housed on monkey islands and shared there enclosure with porcupines?

The petting farm was closed due to a outbreak of foot and mouth?

 

[CZJimmy]

Guenon where housed on monkey islands and shared there enclosure with porcupines?

The Mandrills used to share their section of Monkey Islands with porcupines and another species of monkey (whose name escapes me at this time)

 

[LeeMac13]

The Mandrills used to share their section of Monkey Islands with porcupines and another species of monkey (whose name escapes me at this time)

Were the porcupines allowed to use both the inside and outside enclosure? Did they get on ok with the madrills?

Also does anybody know what happened to sophia the sealion pup born in 2006 i think

 

[Indlovu]

The Mandrills used to share their section of Monkey Islands with porcupines and another species of monkey (whose name escapes me at this time)

It was Campbell's Guenons.

 

[gentle lemur]

The petting farm was closed due to a outbreak of foot and mouth?

No. If there had been an outbreak of FMD at the zoo all the hoofstock would have been slaughtered.
I would not have thought that the goats etc would have raised the risk of such an outbreak.

Alan

 

[LeeMac13]

QUOTE=gentle lemur;198352]No. If there had been an outbreak of FMD at the zoo all the hoofstock would have been slaughtered.
I would not have thought that the goats etc would have raised the risk of such an outbreak.

Alan[/QUOTE]

Thank you for the info seems like the website had false info

 

[OrangePerson]

No. If there had been an outbreak of FMD at the zoo all the hoofstock would have been slaughtered.
I would not have thought that the goats etc would have raised the risk of such an outbreak.

Alan

I suppose it might mean there was an outbreak elsewhere causing the zoo to take precautions rather than being an outbreak at the zoo?

 

[Bele]

Ive just been reading some information about Chester Zoo and wondered if the following things were true.


Guenon where housed on monkey islands and shared there enclosure with porcupines?

The petting farm was closed due to a outbreak of foot and mouth?

At the start of Monkey Islands I think there were also a group of vervets in with the mandrills , Campbell's guenons and porcupines .

 

[Maguari]

They were Grivets rather than Vervets (or at least, that's how they were labelled and listed! Chlorocebus is a bit of minefield).

 

[gentle lemur]

I suppose it might mean there was an outbreak elsewhere causing the zoo to take precautions rather than being an outbreak at the zoo?

Zoos do take precautions during an outbreak - using footbaths and even closing to visitors, for example. I wonder if the animals which are in close contact with the visitors have a higher chance of contracting the disease than animals in enclosures - if someone who had been in contact with the virus was visiting the zoo. I suppose that is theoretically possible: biosecurity is an issue in animal care now.

Alan