Woburn Safari Park animals you would like to see at woburn

[mammalguy]

can anyone think of any animals that woburn should get or send elsewhere

 

[lechweoryx]

I would like to see a larger herd of Gemsbok and wildebeest, nyala, Diana monkeys and vicuna to arrive.

Also do they currently have Lechwe?

 

[mammalguy]

possibly on the lechwe

 

[mammalguy]

flamingo aviary like longleat , hippos, ostrich , warthogs , cape buffalo , wildebeest , tapir capybara

 

[Reevesie]

I'd like to see them do more with the tigers as currently the two they have are rarely in the drive through.

I would also love to see them to get another hippo to replace the one that died

 

[robmv]

The animals I'd really like to SEE PROPERLY are the elephants. It seems odd to me that they've built a (seemingly) state-of-the-art elephant house and the animals are now virtually off-show - the new paddocks are only visible from the road that takes you back to the start of the drive-through, and then through several different fences and barriers (if you're lucky, the females may be in the old paddocks which are a little easier to view). It really surprises me that they didn't plan some public viewing as part of the development as the house would only be a couple of minutes walk from the car park for the walk-around area. It seems like a lost opportunity with one of their headline species to me.

 

[Pertinax]

It seems odd to me that they've built a (seemingly) state-of-the-art elephant house and the animals are now virtually off-show

There was talk some while back(several years ago now) of bringing in a larger group of Elephants. Is this still planned, I wonder?

Any news on the so-called 'Kashmir Deer'?

 

[Kifaru Bwana]

There is a big difference between what "would like to see" and what "is actually realistic". I would rather go for the last option.

Elephants - aka what status the larger import (perhaps they can take some of those redundant Indian zoos eles if the CZA go through with that bizarre/Age of Stupidity plan) - and put the elephant breeding center on a firm setting.

Some more and rare hoofstock be nice (allthough I feel that aridland/steppe type hoofstock are not applicable here). Okapi? Babirusa? Anoa? Alfred's deer? Visayan warty pigs? Malayan tapir.

Carnivores: Amur leopard, clouded leopard and snow leopard. Pure-bred lions, an unrelated Siberian tiger male and cheetah.

Birds: obvious lacunae in collection (maybe they need to look at Safari Beekse Bergen in Hilvarenbeek for pointers): pelicans, ibis, spoonbill, flamingoes, storks, some wading birds (Pluvialis, Vanellus, Recurvirostra et cetera), wetland birds (white-headed duck and other rare Mid-European/Mediterranee ducks). African savannah bird house: hornbills, cranes, secretary bird, shoebill, storks (in particular Mycteria ibis, saddle-billeds, Abdim's and blacks), hammerhead .... S.E. Asian rainforest birds (hornbills, catbirds, Garrulax ...., peacock pheasants).

Some more primates: lemurs (they hold brown and red-bellied only), langurs, colobus, some mangabey and cercopithecines.

 

[mammalguy]

the animals woburn currently house are

white rhno
asian elephant
amur tiger
n.a black bear
wolf
african lion
rothschild giraffe
colobus monkey
patas monkey
barbary macaque
drills
bongo
bactrian camel
sea lions
n.a bison
przewalskis horse
vietnamese sika deer
ankole cattle
congo buffalo
common eland
chapmans zebra
scimater horned oryx
grevys zebra
southern gemsbok
addax
somali wild ass
lories and lorikeets
bennets wallaby
greater rhea
squirrel monkey
blue and yellow macaw
greater sulphur crested cockatoo
common marmoset
burmese python
great malaysian pond turtle
mangrove monitor lizard
lynx
red river hog
humboldt penguin
pygmy marmoset
red fronted lemur
red bellied lemur
black and white ruffed lemur

 

[lechweoryx]

Do they have 2 gemsboks and have they ever bred?

 

[mammalguy]

they have a male and female according to isis and they have never bred

 

[RTB1987]

Didn't they used to have hippos near the start of the drive through? All i can remember was basically a large pond as they weren't visible the only time i went about 6 years ago

 

[mammalguy]

woburn also have mhorr gazelle

 

[robmv]

Didn't they used to have hippos near the start of the drive through? All i can remember was basically a large pond as they weren't visible the only time i went about 6 years ago

They had common hippos right from the start (1970), up to a few years ago - can't be sure but I would guess around 2005. The house and pool are still there but I'd be surprised if they reacquired hippos without upgrading the facilities.