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The zoo's Facebook page also confirmed that 0:1 Scimitar Horned Oryx was relocated to Chessington on the same day (8th June)
 
Visited today here are a few points;
1.Stuma and Dicky the Okapi were together again I know this has been the current since a few months ago,Dicky tried mounting Stuma and succeeded once I dont know if he mated though.
2.Upali the Elephant joined the herd around 12PM.
3.The 3 male Cheetahs(Burbah,Singah and Matrah)were back together and I think Adaze(?)was in the nearest to the Yurt enclosure.
4.Philippine Crocodiles were seperated.
5.The new female Capybara was seperated from the main viewing.
6.Kitani and Sammy were in the TSAVO enclosure and there was a another pair Manyara and Magadi(?)in the enclosure near the Meerkats.
7.Parson's Chameleon are now in the Tropical Realm near the Tuatara's.
8.I may have seen the female Temminck's Tragopan I will upload a photo.
Photos to follow.
 
As far as I'm aware they were together a few months back but no recent news yet they were seperated today the Crocodile on the left (female)was fairly active trying to make contact with the right hand side specimen who was in the water.
 
Jordan and Trixie, I have not seen Phillipine Crocodiles together since I started visiting regularly in April of last year, nor do I recall seeing them together before then for that matter (but I wasn't much of a Tropical Realm person before then).

Jordan-Jaguar97; said:
Visited today here are a few points;
1.Stuma and Dicky the Okapi were together again I know this has been the current since a few months ago,Dicky tried mounting Stuma and succeeded once I dont know if he mated though.
2.Upali the Elephant joined the herd around 12PM.
3.The 3 male Cheetahs(Burbah,Singah and Matrah)were back together and I think Adaze(?)was in the nearest to the Yurt enclosure.
4.Philippine Crocodiles were seperated.
5.The new female Capybara was seperated from the main viewing.
6.Kitani and Sammy were in the TSAVO enclosure and there was a another pair Manyara and Magadi(?)in the enclosure near the Meerkats.
7.Parson's Chameleon are now in the Tropical Realm near the Tuatara's.
8.I may have seen the female Temminck's Tragopan I will upload a photo.
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1, 2, and 3 have been like that for some time.
The new Capybara is rather young. She appears to be separated for the time being, and seems to have access to the house and smaller of the two yards. The male has the larger yard and the Tapir have the paddock.
Re: Point 6 - Is this the paddock which can be viewed from behind the Meerkat statue? If not, it was most probably Ema/Bashira or Asani/Malindi.

In other news, there is construction work in progress on the site of the old toilet block opposite SOTJ. I may be wrong but there also appears to be a new Visayan Spotted Deer. Two Vicugna are in the exhibit behind the Cheetah enclosure currently inhabited by the three males.

Harry
 
OrangePerson said:
Was there anything of interest said at the AGM - or is it top secret?
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mmm Nothing top secret, but equally nothing earth shattering that you didn't already know I suspect?
Confirmed the Islands project is going ahead and why the Biodome has been shelved for now (funds as you knew) - Islands due to be open 2014 I think (correct me if my memory has failed me here chaps and chapessess!)
mmm what else?
I honestly can't think of anything - the majority of the meeting was a review of 2010 really.
 
OrangePerson said:
Was there anything of interest said at the AGM - or is it top secret?
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mmm Nothing top secret, but equally nothing earth shattering that you didn't already know I suspect?
Confirmed the Islands project is going ahead and why the Biodome has been shelved for now (funds as you knew) - Islands due to be open 2014 I think (correct me if my memory has failed me here chaps and chapessess!)
mmm what else?
I honestly can't think of anything - the majority of the meeting was a review of 2010 really.
 
OrangePerson said:
Was there anything of interest said at the AGM - or is it top secret?
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As Karoocheetah said nothing earth shattering was said during the meeting,but I did clear a few things before and after the meeting up that for the time being will have to remain off the record on here!!
 
Incase anybody is interested Lilly the latest Red Panda Cub has now moved to Nordons Ark Zoo in Sweden.
 
Pt123 said:
She was due to arrive yesterday (Tuesday) evening I believe. Also as part of this move Rosie went to Port Lympne on Monday.
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That explains the moves then,I knew where Rosie was departing to but I didn't think it would be so soon.Thanks for that:)
 
Jordan-Jaguar97 said:
That explains the moves then,I knew where Rosie was departing to but I didn't think it would be so soon.Thanks for that:)
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Interesting news about Rosie being relocated to Port Lympne, is Josh still in residence there? if he is then Rosie will be reunited with her former companion at London, younger members may not know that Rosie was hand reared from a baby at London, a marvellous achievement.
 
TARZAN said:
Interesting news about Rosie being relocated to Port Lympne, is Josh still in residence there? if he is then Rosie will be reunited with her former companion at London, younger members may not know that Rosie was hand reared from a baby at London, a marvellous achievement.
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Rosie has a bad history with male companions if you have watched Zoodays it's that kind of behaviour.
 
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