Chester Zoo Big news at Chester zoo 2007 #1

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Sorry folks forgot the reptile news Chester are getting Phillipine Crocodiles should be in the zoo off-show before the end of the year,the lone male Crocodile Monitor in the tropical realm is the young male from Chessington,its come to Chester because its mate died their and Chester are going to swap the Males around,just to finish off on the Crocs London will be getting a group of Phillipines along with Chester but Paignton IS NOT getting them inspite of what they have said in their press re-lease for their new Croc house!!!
 
ZooMania said:
Philippine Crococdiles - thats great, i'd love to see them on show.
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They will be going on show once the West African Dwarf Croc exhibit has been re-built to house them,main job is to make the pool alot deeper and possibly under water viewing.This does mean Chester will be breaking the U.K trend of only keeping small Crocs.
 
zoogiraffe said:
Thats what i was told but suspect they may be the same sub-species as the ones Whipsnade are or have got.
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I guess it must be a little misnomer. :D I suppose what you will see at Chester is the North-African subspecies from UAE animals (Maktoum, Dubai and Sharjah).

The Asian cheetah are down to an estimated 70-100 individuals in Iran (now slowly recovering). Scientists have only this year started a capture+collaring project to initiate ecological studies of the Asian subspecies. The Iran Department of the Environment is talking of a captive-breeding component, but that is not yet fulfilled (and may be another 1-2 years in development).

Anyway, does Chester have previous (breeding) experience of cheetah (if not that might disqualify them from getting North-Africans, it is sort of a precondition)?
 
As far as i`m aware Chester have never bred Cheetah but just lately things like that don`t seem to matter with them they just go and get what they want.
 
zoogiraffe said:
They will be going on show once the West African Dwarf Croc exhibit has been re-built to house them,main job is to make the pool alot deeper and possibly under water viewing.This does mean Chester will be breaking the U.K trend of only keeping small Crocs.
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that exhibit is tiny! How big does this other species reach?
 
Chester have never bred any Cheetahs. It seems to have been Dr Brambell's only regret.

With regard to the crocodiles, it is about time a UK zoo housed big crocodiles again, it gets rather boring looking at dwarf caiman and dwarf crocodile wherever I go.
 
mugger and estuarine crocodile at thrigby, nile crocodile at dudley, morelets at cotswold wp , cuban at paignton and african slender at colchester, so not all bad or too small.
 
ZooMania said:
I'd Like to A UK Zoo have Saltwater Crocodiles.
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Thrigby has, the estaurine corcodile is the same species.

I forgot all about the Morelett's and Slender-snouted, I saw them both last year and still couldn't remember them.
 
kiang said:
mugger and estuarine crocodile at thrigby, nile crocodile at dudley, morelets at cotswold wp , cuban at paignton and african slender at colchester, so not all bad or too small.
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Dudley hasn`t had Nile Crocs since before 2000 they`ve only had West African Dwarf.
 
Do any UK Zoo still have American Alligators. I always thought the Chester pool for them was heaps too small and is much better for a caiman or small crocodile species.
 
Yes, your local zoo does (Welsh Mountain). They should be getting a new home there soon.
 
God i can be stupid at sometimes ?? Their enclsoure is really tiny for them. Though judging by the other new enclosures at Colwyn Bay like The Sealions and Condors im not holding my breathe for anything too fantastic.
 
ZooMania said:
Do any UK Zoo still have American Alligators. I always thought the Chester pool for them was heaps too small and is much better for a caiman or small crocodile species.
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Also Thrigby Hall has a large group of American Alligator,theirs also one at Beaver World,and the Tropical house type place on the sea front at Great Yarmouth,theirs also at least 3 private collections with them.
 
Thrigby has a large crocodile collection doesnt it ?? The website looks old though, how are things there at the moment??
 
Robin Hill country park had saltwater crocodiles for a time, until the mid-nineties, and it closed as a zoo soon after that. I've no idea where these animals went, they were not fully grown when I saw them.

Thrigby does indeed have American Alligators. A similar house to the current swamp house there is being built at it's sister collection, Cromer Zoo, and when this collection opens I expect the alligators will move there. Noah's Ark Zoo farm may also have just recently aquired some juvenile american alligators, I'm not 100% sure.

The American Alligator at Beaver Water World died I think last year or 2005. For years this animal enjoyed possibly the best alligator enclosure in the uk, a large, heavily planted outdoor pond in summer, with plenty of land surrounding it. They built a concrete outdoor pool as an attachment to its indoor winter exhibit, presumably due to the stress of moving the animal twice a year, but it died very soon after this was constructed. Apart from the old alligator pond, which I suspect was accidently a brilliant enclosure as it had been left to become so overgrown, Beaver Water World is really the nearest thing we have to a 'Roadside Zoo' in this country, and is a pretty shocking place.

What happened to the False Gharials about 10 years back at paignton? They were huge, really amazing creatures. Did they die or were they sent elsewhere?
 
Hadley said:
Beaver Water World is really the nearest thing we have to a 'Roadside Zoo' in this country, and is a pretty shocking place.
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I've often wondered about this place, mainly because its got such a peculiar name for an Animal Collection.
 
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