Chester Zoo Chester 2012 news #2

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ZG - remind me to teach you about answering a simple bloody question one of these days! :D

bluetoffeezoo/Mr T - the kudu are in the old wallaby paddock that was latterly home to the lechwe (the long thin one between the Roan and the crane paddocks). JR's photo was, I believe, taken from across the crane paddocks as they are not yet properly on show. :)
 
Maguari said:
ZG - remind me to teach you about answering a simple bloody question one of these days! :D

bluetoffeezoo/Mr T - the kudu are in the old wallaby paddock that was latterly home to the lechwe (the long thin one between the Roan and the crane paddocks). JR's photo was, I believe, taken from across the crane paddocks as they are not yet properly on show. :)
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thankyou Maguari, doesn't take much to be civil and helpful :mad:
 
The Zoo are reporting via Facebook/Twitter that one of the new arrivals are three (2.1) Red Duiker from Germany - Excellent news!
 
Two new species of antelope makes Maguari happy. Not sure how long it will be before duikers are on show, however - could be quite a while.
 
When they go on show I'll be camped out at the okapi enclosure. I have never seen a duiker, and I'm not going to miss them this time round.
 
Any quantity of duikers, offshow or not, are a great addition to the collection in my opinion. Maybe this time I'll make a point of photographing them when/if they go onshow, rather than last time round when I did actually see the duiker, but at that time didn't realise how special it was and so passed it off as "just some more hoofstock" and didn't bother getting a photo! :eek:

In my defence it *was* only my second or so visit to Chester.
 
Its strange that though I regularly saw the blue duiker at Colchester I didn't really appreciate them as being such a rarity until I discovered zoochat a couple of years ago! These duiker will be a good addition to the collection, i hope they're on show by the time i visit next!
 
Being an ungulate fan, the kudu and duiker are for me great additions to the collection at Chester, keep them coming guys.
 
It is great news - saw both species whilst in South Africa in 2010 in the wild - well I think that Duiker was a blue one but still a beautiful little antelope!
Kudu I feel a bit guilty in saying actually taste rather lush....
 
I'm interested to know if the little feisty one is the female! It was the little one that kept charging me when I was there a couple of weeks ago.
 
Not as exciting as the new arrivals, but 3 male Vicuna have left the collection and gone to Trotters World of Animals in the Lake District.
 
Mr T said:
Not as exciting as the new arrivals, but 3 male Vicuna have left the collection and gone to Trotters World of Animals in the Lake District.
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Thats good news for people in the Lakes.
I hope someone keeps us informed on the progress.
 
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