Newquay Zoo Africa and the Phillipines

I visited NZ last week and all four wildebeest were present.One female is pregnant.No mention from keeper that one pair going to Marwell?
 
zoogiraffe said:
I thought that both the females were pregnant!!!
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And you've probably told me that before now, as well! Never mind, I can't remember everything!
 
Okay, just curious here but... do fishing cats have a range in the Philippines that I am unaware of? I thought leopard cats were the only Philippino felines.
 
Ituri said:
Okay, just curious here but... do fishing cats have a range in the Philippines that I am unaware of? I thought leopard cats were the only Philippino felines.
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No Fishing Cats in the Philippines according to my newly-arrived and oh-so-shiny copy of Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Volume 1 - Carnivores*. The only island populations are given as Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java.




*and thank you for giving me something to look up in it!
 
Maguari said:
No Fishing Cats in the Philippines according to my newly-arrived and oh-so-shiny copy of Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Volume 1 - Carnivores*. The only island populations are given as Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java.*and thank you for giving me something to look up in it!
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Hi Maguari, do you think you could post a short review of the book, I'm on the verge of buying it. Thanks.
 
As you may know by now, the Fishing Cats have now arrived at Newquay: Leaving only waterbuck and warthogs as the animals yet to arrive in these exhibits. And two of the four black wildebeest have now moved to Marwell where they are off-show for two or three weeks time.
 
Pygathrix said:
Hi Maguari, do you think you could post a short review of the book, I'm on the verge of buying it. Thanks.
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The short version is that it's a stunning book. If you're familiar with the Handbook of the Birds of the World, the format is identical, but if anything even more in-depth. The only slight annoyance for me is the pinnipeds are not in this book (they'll be in the Sea Mammals volume with cetaceans and (presumably) sirenians). Maybe I'll wax lyrical at greater length on it later!
 
Maguari said:
The short version is that it's a stunning book. If you're familiar with the Handbook of the Birds of the World, the format is identical, but if anything even more in-depth. The only slight annoyance for me is the pinnipeds are not in this book (they'll be in the Sea Mammals volume with cetaceans and (presumably) sirenians). Maybe I'll wax lyrical at greater length on it later!
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Thanks, I can afford to get one volume a year. I haven't got HBW although I've seen it, but I don't think I could stretch to £3000+ for the full set.
 
I am certainly enjoying my copy of Handbook of Mammals of the World . What comes over strongly is how very little is known about the natural history of many of the Carnivore species covered by the volume . I suspect this will also be the case with many of the other volumes to be published . They have managed to find photos of many unusual species .

I note that they spell fosa with one 's' , not two as is usual .
 
Didn't know wether to start a new thread, so I decided to put it here instead;

The black wildebeast have given birth! This is exiting news for such an endangered species and rarely seen species. The parents are called Malaga (female) and lazar (male)


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Such geat news about the Black Wildebeest thanks for letting all of use know. do you know if the Marwell female is pregnant to?
 
This could well be the first Black wildebeest birth in the the UK since they were bred(?) at Whipsnade in the 1940/50's era. Marwell's previous ones(1970's) never bred and I doubt they did at Blackpool either.
 
Wow, awesome looking animals. They look lethal though!
 
Pertinax said:
This could well be the first Black wildebeest birth in the the UK since they were bred(?) at Whipsnade in the 1940/50's era.
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It is certainly excellent news that this species has been bred in the UK again, although I cannot get used to the name black wildebeest; I always think of them as white-tailed gnu.

Anyway, looking through back copies of the ZSL Annual Reports, white-tailed gnu were born at Whipsnade in both 1960 and 1961.

(Incidentally, this species was first born at London Zoo as long ago as 23 June 1894 and five were born there between 1894 and 1915.)
 
Tim May said:
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Anyway, looking through back copies of the ZSL Annual Reports, white-tailed gnu were born at Whipsnade in both 1960 and 1961.
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Do you know when Whipsnade stopped keeping them( the year) and what happened to them?
 
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