Are there any captive Kakapo in the UK?
- Thread starter Cat-Man
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ill say no as im not even aware of any in europe
zoogiraffe
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Can we have the next stupid question please?
zoogiraffe
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Well they used to have a stuffed one at Paradise Park Hayle in the shop but its not been their for some time,I have no idea where it came from or how they got it.
If you want to see a kakapo, raise a fair bit of money, get a gap year at 18, and travel to New Zealand and discover how they are being conserved in the wild. That's certainly how I'm gonna do it, along with other animals I hope to travel the world to see in their natural habitat.
Not every animal in the world has to be a kept in a zoo in order for you to see it.
Not every animal in the world has to be a kept in a zoo in order for you to see it.
I was fairly sure that kakapo had been kept in London Zoo.
Browsing through the book “A Record of Progress of the Zoological Society of London During the Nineteenth Century” (1901), I found that the chapter for 1870 contains the following:-
“A kakapo or night parrot of New Zealand was received on deposit.” Frustratingly no other details are provided.
My goodness is there a species ZSL has NOT kept at sometime
Sounds like the start of a good thread
Johnny Morris.
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I've been getting rather taken aback by some of the rudeness of posters on this site of late. The snootyness of some people on here is rather disturbing. Zoo chat isn't some sort of competition, and i'm sure it isn't a place for Geeks to laugh, point and Snigger at people, but that's what i've seen happening on here of late. When i 1st came across this site i thought wow this is great, people with the same sad interest as me, then i appreciated that some of you were very well informed, and there was no way i could ever dream of offering the same kind of posts/ info as some of you. But lately the esteem i have held a lot of you in has waned. Some of you quite frankly if i were to meet, i don't think i could spend 5 minutes with you.
Why no Thylacine in UK collections?
Well, ask a silly question....
I second what JM said-while most people are knowledgable and pleasant, there are a few who seem to feel it is their right to make frankly insulting remarks.
No one knows everything and there are a fair number of youngsters who use this site-don't put them off with snotty attitude.
Never be afraid to question anything. Blind acceptance was one of the excuses the Nazis used.
here you go, from another one of Cat-Man's threads http://www.zoochat.com/38/animals-kept-london-zoo-past-20811/index2.html post 21 -- six kakapo kept at London Zoo between 1870 and 1875, and one from 1911 to 1915. As far as I'm aware they are the only kakapo ever kept outside NZ (and there's also mention by bongorob in post 6 of a 1928 record of platypus which is surprising)
If you go to the NZ forum you'll find a number of threads concerning kakapo Cat-Man
If you go to the NZ forum you'll find a number of threads concerning kakapo Cat-Man
Vulpes
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I have to agree and have brought it up on other occasions! I dont think this was a stupid question, If you dont know the answer to something you ask someone who does! and what better place to ask people who do know.
I am glad this question was asked as we all learned something new that they may have been kept at London zoo in the past! that is very interesting and I would like to learn more!
You get my support on this too, I didn't think it was a stupid question either.
Sure some people of here do know more, and do have inside info, but surely they can use their info to help others who know less and want to learn more, I know in the past most folk on here have been kind and helpful to me, but a vey small minority are rude and abrupt, sadly they are mostly in the UK too.
Kagus seem to have been doing really very well lately - Walsrode had very good numbers when I was there and they're starting to spread. Hopefully there'll be some in the UK before long.
I just looked this up, but there is not much to go on. The photo is of the head only and the text is 'a duck-billed platypus, one of the two surviving types of egg-laying mammal.' It is dated 1928.
There aren't any captive kakapo anywhere now. Some young were hand-reared at Aukland Zoo (I think) this year after their mothers found too little food in the wild, I think a couple were on show for a few days.
Read all about the kakapo at Home of the Kakapo Recovery Programme | Kakapo Recovery Programme
Alan
Read all about the kakapo at Home of the Kakapo Recovery Programme | Kakapo Recovery Programme
Alan
