felis silvestris
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Depends what you mean. More knowledge members can tell you about the individuals, but I know that they were there until 2004.
Edinburgh Zoo Animals held at Edinburgh zoo in the past
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I only remember a silver back called sam Sam and a menamalistic black leopard years ago when I was about 14 so 23 years ago remember them having Moluccan cockatoos and vasa parrots as well in the bird garden and white rhinos krugar and omfalosi
Longer than that - I saw them there in 2005 and Zootierliste states they were held until 2007.
felis silvestris
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Yeah, the 2 white rhinos bred many times at the zoo. I think they died in about 2005?
Martii
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I remember they had a gorilla called Yinka
Gorillas- the exhibit opened around 1985 I believe. First Gorillas were males Gori & Samsam and female Yinka that all came from Dublin. Female Naomi (renamed Priscilla while she was at Edinburgh) came from Bristol Zoo, giving a total of two males, two females..
Over the following years several exchanges of gorillas between Edinburgh and other zoos were made, mostly to try and promote breeding. Firstly Gori (who had become a dangerous male as he matured) was sent away(permanently) to Japan. Naomi/Priscilla was later sent to Belfast and reverted to her given name. SamSam was exchanged with male Kumba from Blackpool for a period of several years and then afterwards swapped back again. Female Yinka was exchanged with female Baffia at Chessington for one year and then they swapped again. Female Momo from Stuttgart replaced Naomi as the second female of the trio. (Samsam/Yinka/Momo)
In terms of breeding these moves were all unsuccessful though and the only successful birth was a single male baby born in 1989 to Samsam & Yinka. Named Sekondi he was handraised, mainly at Twycross. He later became the father of Matadi now in Antwerp.
When the exhibit (which was never the best for gorillas) finally closed circa 2006/7, in preparation for a revamp of the enclosure for the incoming Giant Pandas, Momo returned to Germany while Samsam and Yinka travelled to Twycross 'in transit' to a home in Spain. But Twycross' own male died soon after their move so they stayed on at Twycross permanently until their deaths.
Its hard to establish some of the exact dates- one Gorilla listings page has mistakenly omitted Edinburgh completely, and some of the individuals are quite hard to find the exact dates for too.
Over the following years several exchanges of gorillas between Edinburgh and other zoos were made, mostly to try and promote breeding. Firstly Gori (who had become a dangerous male as he matured) was sent away(permanently) to Japan. Naomi/Priscilla was later sent to Belfast and reverted to her given name. SamSam was exchanged with male Kumba from Blackpool for a period of several years and then afterwards swapped back again. Female Yinka was exchanged with female Baffia at Chessington for one year and then they swapped again. Female Momo from Stuttgart replaced Naomi as the second female of the trio. (Samsam/Yinka/Momo)
In terms of breeding these moves were all unsuccessful though and the only successful birth was a single male baby born in 1989 to Samsam & Yinka. Named Sekondi he was handraised, mainly at Twycross. He later became the father of Matadi now in Antwerp.
When the exhibit (which was never the best for gorillas) finally closed circa 2006/7, in preparation for a revamp of the enclosure for the incoming Giant Pandas, Momo returned to Germany while Samsam and Yinka travelled to Twycross 'in transit' to a home in Spain. But Twycross' own male died soon after their move so they stayed on at Twycross permanently until their deaths.
Its hard to establish some of the exact dates- one Gorilla listings page has mistakenly omitted Edinburgh completely, and some of the individuals are quite hard to find the exact dates for too.
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Cobi
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Cheetahs were definitely held in the deer enclosure next to the wallaby and kangaroo walk-through.
Baringogiraffe12
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The breeding female died around 2005 - the last male I believe, Samson (born at Knowsley in 2001) arrived in 2004 before moving to Safari Peaugres in 2006.
Offspring from the Edinburgh pair are still scattered around - Otzee (prev bull at Woburn now at Givskud), Meru at Knowsley and Kai at Woburn now to name a few.
AlanTaylor1989
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I recently stumbled upon this incredible video of Edinburgh Zoo filmed in 1965 featured on the National Library of Scotland website, its a pretty incredible video featuring many things at the Zoo including:
Sealion feeding
Elephants
Childrens farm
Polar bears
Giraffes
Chimpanzee tea party
Penguin parade
https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/2796?search_term=Edinburgh zoo&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes
Sealion feeding
Elephants
Childrens farm
Polar bears
Giraffes
Chimpanzee tea party
Penguin parade
https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/2796?search_term=Edinburgh zoo&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes
Edinburgh was one of 10 ZTL collections to hold a Chinese golden cat
One of 9 to hold a Syrian marbled polecat
One of 5 to hold a southern wetzone purple-faced langur
And one of 3 to hold a Weddell seal
One of 9 to hold a Syrian marbled polecat
One of 5 to hold a southern wetzone purple-faced langur
And one of 3 to hold a Weddell seal
Edinburgh acquired its Weddell seal from
Christian Salvesen in 1914. At the same time, and from the same source, the zoo also obtained two elephant seals, four king penguins, a gentoo penguin and a macaroni penguin.