Burgers' Zoo Burgers Zoo 2018

Today's visit observations:
• In the safari they rerouted pathing towards the cheetahs to be straight instead of the curve. around a few bushes. This leading to more space empty where the fallen trees were.
• They've added three more pikes into the mangrove tank and a few more will arrive later on. This meaning "the cichlids are getting out of hand" (quoting a mangrove volunteer here).
• Baby reindeer found in the enclosure.
• Still no cownose rays found
• Spotted the epaulette shark
• Some guy was using a drill inside the meerkat enclosure drilling holes in the natural rocks that seperate the visitors and animals.. The animals were still in the enclosure..
• Spotted two whistlingducks in the mangrove (previous I only found 1)
• The two watermonitors are still seperated but are keeping an eye out for eachother through the glass.
• In the Ocean the sharktank seemed more greenish water than usual. No idea what's up there.
• The oryx were roaming the safari.
• Scarlet Ibis still kept behind the scenes (behind the mangrove)
 
Timmiegun said:
• Some guy was using a drill inside the meerkat enclosure drilling holes in the natural rocks that seperate the visitors and animals.. The animals were still in the enclosure..
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I'm a bit confused about this sentence. As drills can eat small mammals, I doubt it is a good idea placing a drill inside the meerkat enclosure. I suspect that it could drill holes to catch meerkats that escaped into burrows in the enclosure.
 
Dassie rat said:
I'm a bit confused about this sentence. As drills can eat small mammals, I doubt it is a good idea placing a drill inside the meerkat enclosure. I suspect that it could drill holes to catch meerkats that escaped into burrows in the enclosure.
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Drill.. the tool.
 
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I heard the bongo's are now also leaving the collection, it will get really quiet in that zone. Anyone knows whats going to happen there? In the short and longterm.
 
Haasje said:
I heard the bongo's are now also leaving the collection, it will get really quiet in that zone. Anyone knows whats going to happen there? In the short and longterm.
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Unknown, I alos feel like the meerkats and warthogs will move towards the safari since they redid the road over there. And From there I think they will rework the area around the entrance?
 
Timmiegun said:
Unknown, I alos feel like the meerkats and warthogs will move towards the safari since they redid the road over there. And From there I think they will rework the area around the entrance?
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If they do create some new enclosures, I hope that the Blue duiker also move, geographically they fit i the Safari, though it is the wrong habitat...
 
lintworm said:
If they do create some new enclosures, I hope that the Blue duiker also move, geographically they fit i the Safari, though it is the wrong habitat...
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Might fit better to either go out of Aardvark, or at least move them out of the Bush - with a little alteration their exhibit would be quite good for Blue Duiker and more appropriate habitat-wise than Safari (not to mention the fact that Aardvark isn't a great fit for Bush anyhow).
 
lintworm said:
If they do create some new enclosures, I hope that the Blue duiker also move, geographically they fit i the Safari, though it is the wrong habitat...
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Well if it is the wrong habitat they propebly will also have to go, Im afraid. Burgers tends to be strict when it comes to their eco displays and the animals in them.
 
Haasje said:
Well if it is the wrong habitat they propebly will also have to go, Im afraid. Burgers tends to be strict when it comes to their eco displays and the animals in them.
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Nope, the Bush is a giant mess. Asian, African, South American. I'd like them to pick one of them (prefered south american, and sort of link it to the mangrove as in an expo room that explains the differences and both their importances)
 
Timmiegun said:
Nope, the Bush is a giant mess. Asian, African, South American. I'd like them to pick one of them (prefered south american, and sort of link it to the mangrove as in an expo room that explains the differences and both their importances)
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True the Bush is a mess, since its beginning 30 years ago. All the eco displays since Desert, Rimba, Mangrove, Ocean have been correct to the eco-system they represent. So I dont expect to change now.
 
Haasje said:
True the Bush is a mess, since its beginning 30 years ago. All the eco displays since Desert, Rimba, Mangrove, Ocean have been correct to the eco-system they represent. So I dont expect to change now.
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The Bush turns 30 this year I believe. The safari turned 50 recently. So There is a chance that they realize the bush is a mess that should get some fixes. I mean the aardvarks in there are the zoo's new mascot I believe. They would not leave the park but a move within the zoo would be better for the theming
 
Though it was already known to exist for somewhat longer, Dracaena bushii has now been officially described. The plant came from the Wageningen University collection, but it was only noticed later while it was growing in the Bush that it was actually an undescribed Dracaena species.

The official description can be found here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...ovelties-in-African-Dracaena-Dracaenaceae.pdf

News article from Burgers' Zoo:
Wereldprimeur! Wetenschapper ontdekt nieuwe Dracaena-soort in Koninklijke Burgers' Zoo
 
Timmiegun said:
Nope, the Bush is a giant mess.
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The Bush is not a mess! It is nicely divided in an African, South American and Asian part. The plants and the animals in exhibits show in which part you are. Naturally the free-ranging species don't bother. And every so often a plant sprouts in the wrong place, and they are usually removed when found.

So if you want to turn the Bush into a one-continent hall you have to chop down 2/3 of the vegetation.
 
Mr. Zootycoon said:
The Bush is not a mess! It is nicely divided in an African, South American and Asian part. The plants and the animals in exhibits show in which part you are. Naturally the free-ranging species don't bother. And every so often a plant sprouts in the wrong place, and they are usually removed when found.

So if you want to turn the Bush into a one-continent hall you have to chop down 2/3 of the vegetation.
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I dont think people really mind to see plants from a different continent around. The bush is very lush, and I never said that the plants should be chopped down.

The whole park has one country/area in the world, assigned per themed area. The bush is just a mess/combination of multiple. Ruining the whole idea of the park in my opinion. The aardvarks do not belong in the bush at all.
 
In my opinion the aardvarks actually fit quite well, they're definitely not as restrained to arid areas as most zoo enclosures would have you believe. I think part of this misconception lies in the fact that their enclosures usually lack many plants, since they'd destroy them if they had access to them.

The fact that more aardvarks have been born in Burgers' tropical climate enclosure than in any other European enclosures for that species surely has to say something...
 
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