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according to ISIS they have bred a giant anteater, can anyone confirm?
 
BBC News - Fire destroys Amazon World zoo tractor on Isle of Wight
Two people have been treated for the effects of smoke inhalation after a fire at an Isle of Wight animal park.

Firefighters were called to Amazon World, near Sandown, on Sunday at 1830 BST after flames were spotted at the rear of the park in Watery Lane.

The fire took hold in two maintenance sheds where equipment, including a tractor, was destroyed.

Park manager Robert Westby said no animals were affected and an investigation is under way.

He said: "There were no animals near [the sheds]. We obviously had concerns of it spreading across into Amazon World and going that way but fortunately it didn't."
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Facebook page says a pair of Maroon Breasted Crowned Pigeons have arrived and thier 4 male Ring-tailed Coatis and 4 male Squirrel Monkeys have moved in with the pair of Howler Monkeys.
 
Amazon World have recently imported Dagobert a male Nine Banded Armadillo from Artis Zoo, Amsterdam, he is the fifth species at Amazon World, who now house all five species represented in European zoos, which are: Screaming Hairy Armadillo, Larger Hairy Armadillo, 3 Banded Armadillo, Six Banded Armadillo and Nine Banded Armadillo.
 
kiang said:
Amazon World have recently imported Dagobert a male Nine Banded Armadillo from Artis Zoo, Amsterdam, he is the fifth species at Amazon World, who now house all five species represented in European zoos, which are: Screaming Hairy Armadillo, Larger Hairy Armadillo, 3 Banded Armadillo, Six Banded Armadillo and Nine Banded Armadillo.
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Fantastic! Now only if they could display and label them well....
 
so has anyone visited here recently and can give an update on how/if the enclosures have improved? Tomek has photos in the gallery from 2011 but only portrait shots, and the next most-recent are back from 2005 I think.
 
Chlidonias said:
so has anyone visited here recently and can give an update on how/if the enclosures have improved? Tomek has photos in the gallery from 2011 but only portrait shots, and the next most-recent are back from 2005 I think.
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I visited last summer and whilst some of the enclosures had been improved (including a new, reasonably functional, Lemur walk-through and a much-improved Tamandua exhibit) there's still a lot of work to be done -a number of indoor enclosures were not much bigger than cupboards and the Otter enclosure was particularly grim.
 
Trawling through their Facebook page I see they have bred - prehensile-tailed porcupine , larger hairy and 3-banded armadillo , ocelot , S. American tapir , sloth , pigmy slow loris , maroon-breasted and southern crowned pigeon - in last year .
 
Two two-toed sloths have been born to different mothers this autumn . They have now recorded 11 births in total .
 
1.0 Southern Crowned Pidgeon (chick from 2011) has left for Rhenen this week
 
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