Best UK Anoa Enclosure

Best UK Anoa Enclosure

  • WMSP

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Chester

    Votes: 38 77.6%

  • Port Lympne

    Votes: 10 20.4%

  • Drayton Manor Theme Park

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Marwell Zoo

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    49
TheZooUK

TheZooUK

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WMSP

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Chester Zoo
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Port Lympne
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Drayton Manor Theme Park

I couldn’t find an image. If anyone could put one below then that would be great.

Marwell Zoo

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This image is not very good but I don’t remember the enclosure being that good last time I went.
 

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WMSP enclosure is a little forgotten on the corner at the top of the hill going down towards the tigers if I recall and quite easy to drive past, it almost looks like off exhibit housing that you catch a glimpse of.

Marwell had multiple Anoa exhibits last time I was there, but may have changed..
The enclosure pictured above and also one in the Gibbon/Otter area in the middle of the park.

Of interest to you perhaps (looking at other threads you have started) is that the enclosure you have pictured for Marwell also used to hold babirusa many years ago.

Think Chester will be a clear winner on this one though.
 
ralph said:
Chester's looks great, but perhaps Port Lympe is better because all the shade it offers the animals. The anoa won't really care about esthetics.

Didn't vote because I haven't seen any of these myself.
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I may be wrong, but if Port Lympne still have Anoa, they haven't been in that enclosure for several years.
 
I think the Port Lympne one looks the most naturalistic enclosure for anoa.

I don't really like the look of the Chester one or the Marwell enclosure though from the picture you posted it's hard to see what the latter actually even looks like.

What is the Drayton manor enclosure like ?
 
Marwell have 3 enclosures currently, the one in the photo is in a wooded area similar to the former Anoa enclosure at Port Lympne, so by that standard you should probably vote Marwell. Drayton Manor has a few trees but is much smaller.
 
pipaluk said:
Marwell have 3 enclosures currently, the one in the photo is in a wooded area similar to the former Anoa enclosure at Port Lympne, so by that standard you should probably vote Marwell. Drayton Manor has a few trees but is much smaller.
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Yes but it would be quite nice to actually see both of these before changing my vote.

I might stick with my vote as I like the way the port Lympne enclosure looks with the woodland.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Yes but it would be quite nice to actually see both of these before changing my vote.

I might stick with my vote as I like the way the port Lympne enclosure looks with the woodland.
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Even though that enclosure no longer exists? I don't think they even have them now, they are not listed on the website and that enclosure was offshow for nearly a decade and when it came on show again it didn't hold Anoa.
 
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It's also worth noting both that the enclosure within Islands depicted is rather larger and more vegetated than the provided photo would suggest, and moreover that Chester has multiple Lowland Anoa enclosures, the others of which are a lot more well-vegetated :P

Islands exhibit - discussed above.

Offshow wooded paddock visible only from Flag Lane - no photographs in gallery.

Canal island; this has variously been used for both babirusa and lowland anoa, and held (unsigned) the latter species in June:

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Cattle house paddock (previously held Malayan Tapir, hence the following photograph):

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I don't know how many Anoa there are at Drayton Manor (I presume it might be just one), but they are in the enclosure opposite the Ostrich what used to hold Reindeer.
 
Skukuza said:
WMSP enclosure is a little forgotten on the corner at the top of the hill going down towards the tigers if I recall and quite easy to drive past, it almost looks like off exhibit housing that you catch a glimpse of.

Marwell had multiple Anoa exhibits last time I was there, but may have changed..
The enclosure pictured above and also one in the Gibbon/Otter area in the middle of the park.

Of interest to you perhaps (looking at other threads you have started) is that the enclosure you have pictured for Marwell also used to hold babirusa many years ago.

Think Chester will be a clear winner on this one though.
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I think the enclosure near the otters and gibbons now hold Visayan warty pigs and next to it our binturong. It’s the life Among the Trees exhibit
 
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