Best UK Jaguar enclosure

Best UK Jaguar enclosure?

  • Big Cat Sanctuary

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Paradise WP

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Chester

    Votes: 42 97.7%

  • Amazona

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • South Lakes

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Dartmoor

    Votes: 1 2.3%

  • Wingham

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    43
  • Poll closed .
Zia said:
I actually think the main Paradise enclosure is good - the height, climbing opportunities and amount of foliage all being plus points. One thing that lets it down terribly is when the male and female have to be split (i.e. when the cub was born), the male is relegated to a very small seperate area. I don't know if they rotated the male / females between the two areas but even if they did I feel the smaller area is inadequate.
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I think I've read somewhere that they are... but don't quote me on that :p
 
I would imagine that paradise will build a new Jaguar enclosure in the next few years, I think there were plans however they got shelved to do the lion project.
 
This is the biggest win by a mile! 36 out of 37 votes! Not a surprise really, not that some of the other enclosures are awful, they just are no competition!
 
Results are in. Congratulations to Chester on winning the poll for Best UK Jaguar enclosure with a landslide victory. This was the largest margin of win so far demonstrating the brilliance of Chester's Spirit of the Jaguar and relative weakness of the other collections. This is Chester's 6th win and their most comprehensive so far.

Chester: 97.7%
Dartmoor: 2.3%
 
I thought it would be interesting to look at when the various exhibits that have won the polls so far were first opened. Obviously there are quite a few I have been unable to find out about and would appreciate help from members who have more knowledge than myself. I was personally surprised by how old some of the exhibits were with only 3 opened within the last 5 years.

Bornean Orangutan - Chester - 2007
Sumatran Orangutan - Chester - 2015
Chimpanzee - Edinburgh - 2008
Gorilla - Jersey - ????
African Elephant - Howletts - ????
Asian Elephant - Whipsnade - ???? (Indoors - 2017)
Black Rhino - Chester - 2003
Indian Rhino - Whipsnade - 2008
White Rhino - Marwell - 2015
Hippopotamus - Longleat - ????
Pygmy Hippopotamus - Whipsnade - ????
European Brown Bear - Wild Place - 2019
Polar Bear - Highland - 2015
Sun Bear - Chester - 2017
Spectacled Bear - Chester - 2004
Jaguar - Chester - 2001
Leopard - YWP - 2012
Snow Leopard - Highland - 2016
Clouded Leopard - Cotswold - ????
 
I think the leopard enclosure at Cotswold Wildlife Park was rebuilt some time around 2002-4 for Amur leopards but it has held clouded leopards exclusively since 2013, they arrived a couple of years or so before.
 
Tau said:
I think the leopard enclosure at Cotswold Wildlife Park was rebuilt some time around 2002-4 for Amur leopards but it has held clouded leopards exclusively since 2013, they arrived a couple of years or so before.
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What was on the site beforehand?
 
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