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beckiv1234

beckiv1234

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The last time I visited Blackpool Zoo was on the 24th July 2010. Me and my brother got told that there was baby otters. The sea lion pool is the newest and biggest in the UK. They are starting to let people feed girraffes. In the sea lion show on 24th July it was a new show. Carleid one of the keepers jumped into the sea lion pool and Gina and Anya swam over to Carleid to do some tricks. The new male sea lion is the newest and the loudest of them all I think. The beautiful baby gorrilla came really close up to the window. When I visited the orangutans Cherie and summer (sisters) was play fighting. Vicky their mum sat at the top of the climbing frame and didnt care. Bukavu is really big and really funny aswell. Sea lions are very playful animals. These playful mammals can reach to 35-45 km per hour when chasing food or being hunted by predators such as killer whales and sharks.
 
I really do not agree with the public feeding giraffes and other animals at zoos! Is this a daily event, or a keeper for a day/animal meeting event that you have to pay for?
 
Paix said:
I really do not agree with the public feeding giraffes and other animals at zoos! Is this a daily event, or a keeper for a day/animal meeting event that you have to pay for?
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Can't answer your question sorry, but I don't think animal feedings are necessarily a bad thing so long as it is handled right. For example, one of my favourite parts of Edinburgh was the Rainbow Landings. Also, Colchester allow you to feed the elephants and/or giraffes at certain times of the day when a keeper is present if I remember correctly?

I'm not sure where it is, but I also seem to remember a zoo with a walkthrough lemur enclosure where you could feed the lemurs with a keeper present. In my opinion, if public feedings occurr then they should be handled in a very strict manner, with several rules that have to be enforced. ie. A keeper must always be present to ensure the public are feeding the animals the right food (and for any unforseen incidents), they should only happen at set times in the day so that the animals are not overfed and there should have to be a hand-wash that MUST be used by the public both before and after doing it to meet good health and safety standards for both the visitor and the animal.
 
Blackpool Zoo has a walkthrough lemur enclosure ... at the end i think there is 2 hand wash things and you wash it so you dont have germs .. and i agree that it is good to let other people feed animals because then they know what it feels like.. thanks:)
 
Javan Rhino said:
Also, Colchester allow you to feed the elephants and/or giraffes at certain times of the day when a keeper is present if I remember correctly?
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Yes they do. Visitors, while being supervised by keepers, were made to stand behind a secondary fence while feeding the giraffes to stop people touching them. At the moment though, because the new animals are so small, the barrier has been reduced.
 
Even though I do like walk-throughs, I do not agree feeding should be enforced aswell for these animals. I much prefer a feeding technique that inforces alot more enrichment, like Chesters Monkey Puzzles, and scatter feeds, not being hand fed.

One of the main reasons why I like chester so much is that the only walk through enclosures are for birds and insects (Tsavo/Tropical Realm and the Butterfly House) and that there are no free roaming mammals or mammal walk-throughs.

Aswell, I do see feeding animals like this as a way of spreading disease to both animal and human. I would be more concerned of disease pasted from humans to animals, people should be sensible enough to wash/wipe their hands after having contact with humans, but an animal would not be able to do this, and could easily pass disease through itself and to other animals in the paddock/walthrough.

Just my opinion though. And I just realised we are way of topic!
 
Yes we are off-topic :). Just a quick point out though that I mentioned visitors having to wash their hands at both the entrance and exit (so before and after any contact). As for enrichment, I can't argue there ;p
 
Javan Rhino said:
Yes we are off-topic :). Just a quick point out though that I mentioned visitors having to wash their hands at both the entrance and exit (so before and after any contact). As for enrichment, I can't argue there ;p
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True at Colchester, but how many people actually do it else where, I have never seen anyone do this at a lemur or bird walkthrough.
 
Paix said:
True at Colchester, but how many people actually do it else where, I have never seen anyone do this at a lemur or bird walkthrough.
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Well in an ideal world everybody would do it anyway, but since the world is not ideal I would think there should be somebody on hand to enforce the rule (ie, where you buy/get the food or there could be somebody on the doors).
 
Aswell, what exactly are the developments in the Primate house (King Colobus and Gibbon area) as when I visited there seems to be quite a bit of developments! Aswell, what is the best time to see the Gray Mouse Lemur?
 
Just to point out the Sealion enclosure is NOT NEW just a very good Re-furb of the ORIGINAN POOL built when the zoo opened back in the 1970`s!!
 
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