felis silvestris
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Also…
Japanese serow
Kuhl’s hog deer
Victoria crowned pigeon
Nicobar pigeon
Lesser hedgehog tenrec (?)
Japanese serow
Kuhl’s hog deer
Victoria crowned pigeon
Nicobar pigeon
Lesser hedgehog tenrec (?)
Edinburgh Zoo Animals held at Edinburgh zoo in the past
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Edinburgh is 1 of 10 ZTL zoos to have kept Maxwell's duikers
1 of 9 to have kept Malayan civets and North American wood turtles
1 of 8 to have kept jewelled chameleons
1 of 7 to have kept Adelie penguins
1 of 5 to have kept montane egg-eating snakes
1 of 4 to have kept Gaboon caecilians
1 of 3 to have kept Weddell seals
1 of 2 to have kept Natal Midlands dwarf chameleons, New Guinea harpy eagles, St Lucia whiptail lizards and tawny-bellied hermits and
the only one to have kept small-headed treefrogs
1 of 9 to have kept Malayan civets and North American wood turtles
1 of 8 to have kept jewelled chameleons
1 of 7 to have kept Adelie penguins
1 of 5 to have kept montane egg-eating snakes
1 of 4 to have kept Gaboon caecilians
1 of 3 to have kept Weddell seals
1 of 2 to have kept Natal Midlands dwarf chameleons, New Guinea harpy eagles, St Lucia whiptail lizards and tawny-bellied hermits and
the only one to have kept small-headed treefrogs
Did Edinburgh Zoo ever hold Tarsiers of any kind? I have this vague memory of there being a sign listing them and a small dark viewing window with coverings on the side either beside the Rhino enclosure (under the canopy area), or by where the Red River Hogs used to be inside that elevated viewing area which had Taiwan Beauty Snakes a while back. Not sure if any of that is true but I can't find any information about it anywhere online. It would've been around 2007/2008 I think.
You're thinking of the Moholi Galago group which were held at the zoo from 2007 until 2012
Ah ok that makes sense. I wish I'd managed to see them but all I got was the exhibit signYou're thinking of the Moholi Galago group which were held at the zoo from 2007 until 2012
Also missed out on seeing the Aye-Aye they had but it wasn't there for long I don't think.
Around five years or so I believe; I cannot recall if they had a pair or not, but I think the last one died not long before my first visit in January 2010. The weirder one is the fact West Midlands had a single individual for about seven years!
I'm pretty sure it was one on loan from Paris Zoo.
I remember seeing information about the one in West Midlands in a leaflet, there was a period when quite a few places around the UK had them. I'm glad they still have a good population around the country.
Jambi
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I looked up Edinburgh's former holdings list on Zootierliste when I saw this thread, out of curiosity, and was surprised by a lot of the things they have down. Orangutans, grizzly bears, both American and European bison, even Tasmanian devils! (How long ago was that?)
I remember seeing sea lions, gorillas, wolverines and jaguars at Edinburgh, I miss them all and wish at least a couple of them would return some day. I mean, the zoo has enough empty space and unused enclosures now...
I remember seeing sea lions, gorillas, wolverines and jaguars at Edinburgh, I miss them all and wish at least a couple of them would return some day. I mean, the zoo has enough empty space and unused enclosures now...
They nearly had the first U.K. breeding of (Sumatran) Orangutan, but the infant did not survive.
felis silvestris
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Yes, that’s why the orangutan statue is there.
Apparently it isn't... I presumed it was too but the two things aren't related- the family group sculpture and the first breeding aren't in fact connected- so I was told by someone who used to work there.
In his book The Story of the Edinburgh Zoo (1964) T. H. Gillespie, the zoo's first director, records that Edinburgh Zoo acquired a pair of Tasmanian devils in 1913, the year the zoo opened.
felis silvestris
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Apparently my parents said that the orangutans were once held in the now demolished drill dome and jaguars were in the visayan spotted deer enclosure. Can someone verify this?
felis silvestris
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Apparently they did, @gentle lemur actually took a photo of the female in the monkey house in 2008 but the male died not long before the photo was taken.
I have since learned that this aye-aye was actually the male, Dumnorix.
He was wild born in Madagascar around January 151992 and caught on July 15 1993. He was transferred to the Paris Zoo on July 29 1993.
Dumnorix was later transferred to Edinburgh Zoo on November 19 2004 where he stayed until he passed away on July 27 2008. A necropsy was inconclusive. Details from the Aye-Aye Conservation Facebook page.
He was wild born in Madagascar around January 151992 and caught on July 15 1993. He was transferred to the Paris Zoo on July 29 1993.
Dumnorix was later transferred to Edinburgh Zoo on November 19 2004 where he stayed until he passed away on July 27 2008. A necropsy was inconclusive. Details from the Aye-Aye Conservation Facebook page.
felis silvestris
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I found several old clips of the zoo, which were pretty interesting (all made before I was born):
It shows several animals no longer at the zoo and some other things I found interesting:
Gorillas
SIberian lynx
Jaguar
Leopard
Tiger (before their exhibit was renovated, which was probably mid 2000s)
Arabian oryx
Giraffes (In the current rhino enclosure)
Barbary rock (i hope they remake this someday)
Darwins maze (demolished in about 2007 to make way for rainbow landings)
(more footage from the same visit)
The antelope aren't in there anymore. It was made into an enclosure for african wild dog, then for RRH
Most of the monkeys in the monkey house are gone or in different enclosures (the only one in that category is L'hoest's monkey)
The pond viewed onto is gone; now where the african aviary is, approximately.
There are some other videos I'll analyze another day.
It shows several animals no longer at the zoo and some other things I found interesting:
Gorillas
SIberian lynx
Jaguar
Leopard
Tiger (before their exhibit was renovated, which was probably mid 2000s)
Arabian oryx
Giraffes (In the current rhino enclosure)
Barbary rock (i hope they remake this someday)
Darwins maze (demolished in about 2007 to make way for rainbow landings)
The antelope aren't in there anymore. It was made into an enclosure for african wild dog, then for RRH
Most of the monkeys in the monkey house are gone or in different enclosures (the only one in that category is L'hoest's monkey)
The pond viewed onto is gone; now where the african aviary is, approximately.
There are some other videos I'll analyze another day.
Orangs would probably have only been held there temporarily. The last place I saw Orangutan at Edinburgh was in a small enclosure somewhere on one of the central lawns. Former ones were kept in the old Ape House alongside the chimpanzees.
Alwaysevergreen
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This is a really fascinating and interesting thread to read in full, very enjoyable.
What’s the history of gorillas at Edinburgh?