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colobus breeding.

Twcross have an information board telling you how many Colobus they have bred over the years. I think its such a high number mainly because they've been breeding over a long period of time. Other UK zoos I know of where they breed succesfully are Paignton(two species), Banham and Fota Wildlife Park. There must be a few others too.
 
Writhedhornbill said:
That info is just Fab!!

Is the monkey house you're talking about, the one that Monkey islands has replaced? I have a guide showing that house. Someone at School gave it to me.

About the cats, Where are the Persian Leopards? The zoo bred many of these and Penny hand reared some of them. I've seen picture of her holding them and then when they were bigger and scratching her in the enclosure. Wonderful animals. They should bring back some more small cats.
Has the zoo ever kept Moloch gibbons? I was told that they were kept in the current Spectacled owl enclosure at Some point. ( Used to house keas, but they died of Lead poisoning)
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The Persian leopards are alive and well still in a private collection.
 
bongorob said:
I have just remembered about two more primate exhibits. Patas monkeys were once kept on the island where the anoas are, and lar gibbons on the island now housing the ring-tailed lemurs. I remember the orangs in the monkey house, I saw Subis there when she was being hand reared.

The Monkey House used to have a huge collection of species, often single specimens and today would be regarded as not acceptable, though I bet in the early 60s it was considered as an excellent place. I remember many different guenons at Chester, including two uncommon species I never got the chance to photograph, these were Preuss' guenon and Moloney's guenon. The female Moloney's produced a few babies with a male Sykes' guenon as the father.
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Did you know the Gibbons were moved off the island because they male was found swimming backstroke in the moat trying to catch Mallards!!!!!!!
 
Writhedhornbill said:
Edinburgh as far as I know does not hold Amur leopards.
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bongorob said:
Currently keeping Amur Leopards in the UK are

Cotswold 1.1
Cricket St Thomas 2.1 (where I saw them for the first time)
Colchester 1.1
Marwell 1.1
Twycross 3.0
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Ok, I realise those 2 posts were made a while ago but Edinburgh do now have a male Amur leopard. He is housed in the row of smallish carnivore enclosures which also contain Pallas's cat, jaguar, wolverine and ratel. I presume he will eventually be moving to HWP along with the Pallas cats, and that RZSS are seeking a mate for him. He looked very bored when I saw him - lots of pacing in evidence.
 
I never got to see him when I went 4 weeks ago. I did see the Asian Golden Cat and he was much bigger than I expected. I was also surprised at the colour of his fur, mostly grey, I expected a more golden colouration. I never saw the Pallas' Cats, but I've seen them on a previous visit. I have never seen the Lesser kudus yet.

I never knew Chester's gibbons would swim after the ducks.
 
Writhedhornbill said:
Has the zoo ever kept Moloch gibbons? I was told that they were kept in the current Spectacled owl enclosure at Some point. ( Used to house keas, but they died of Lead poisoning)
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The enclosure you are talking about did house a male gibbon at one time, I always though it was a Müller's gibbon.
 
bongorob said:
Chester have never had Amur Leopards. The pair which bred in the 1960s and for which a first UK breeding has been attributed were found out to be North Chinese Leopards. Currently keeping Amur Leopards in the UK are

Cotswold 1.1
Cricket St Thomas 2.1 (where I saw them for the first time)
Colchester 1.1
Marwell 1.1
Twycross 3.0

I can see in several years time someone in the UK will want Persian Leopards, and there won't be any available. Only Chessington (1.2) and Welsh Mountain (1.3) currently hold them.

Banham have 2.2 Sri Lankan Leopards, and West Midlands Safari Park list 0.1 Panthera pardus leopardus which is a West African form. Some people class all African leopards as Panthera pardus pardus though, I'm not sure if the African subspecies are valid. Personally I doubt that so many Asian subspecies exist, but that Africa contains only one.

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Thrigby hall also keep and breed Amur leopards.
Borth animalarium and Drayton Manor have generic leopards of probably Indian origin
 
Hadley said:
Thrigby hall also keep and breed Amur leopards.
Borth animalarium and Drayton Manor have generic leopards of probably Indian origin
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West Midlands Leopard isn`t pure its a standard zoo Leopard they were told it was West African,to get them to take it.
 
thats a shame, as they have made great play of it being one of the african big 5
 
bongorob said:
I did see the Asian Golden Cat and he was much bigger than I expected. I was also surprised at the colour of his fur, mostly grey, I expected a more golden colouration. I never saw the Pallas' Cats, but I've seen them on a previous visit. I have never seen the Lesser kudus yet.
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Golden cats are quite impressive, but not really golden; although I remember seeing brown ones at Wassenaar many years ago. I got some photos of the golden cat and the lesser kudus at Edinburgh this summer. I'll put a couple in the gallery.

Alan
 
I just found a repot of the cats at Chester Zoo in 1977.

Jungle Cat (Felis chaus) 1.1
1.0 arrived 9 April 1973 from Hucknall
0.1 born at Chester.

European Lynx (Felis lynx) 0.3
0.1 arrived 26 February 1973 from Hucknall
0.2 born Whipsnade 1974, arrived 12 March 1975

Canadian Lynx (Felis lynx canadensis) 1.1
1.0 from Blackpool arrived November 1976
0.1 from Blackpool (ex Belle Vue) arrived November 1976

Caracal (Felis caracal) 1.0
1.0 arrived from Dublin 21 February 1973

Serval (Felis serval) 3.1
1.1 born Whipsnade, arrived 13 March 1975
2.0 born Chester 1973

Ocelot (Felis pardalis) 1.0
1.0 born approximately 1965, Pedro, purchased from Mr Rubenstein

Jaguarundi (Felis yagouaroundi) 2.2
1.0 arrived 3 May 1975 from Mr Rubenstein
1.0 born Chester 18 August 1973
0.1 born Rotterdam, arrived 2 September 1976 in exchange for 1.0 born at Chester 18 August 1973
0.1 Para, arrived 9 October 1972 from Mr Herd, captive bred in Canada

Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosus) 0.1

Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) 3.4
1.1 born Edinburgh, arrived 23 April 1969
0.1 born Chester 1974
1.0 born Blackpool, arrived 7 August 1975
0.1 born Howletts, arrived 27 May 1975
1.1 born Chester 1976

Siberian Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) 1.1
1.1 born Howletts 1975, arrived 1976

North Chinese Leopard (Panthera pardus japonensis) 2.2
1.1 arrived 14 April 1965 from Jabira, Netherlands: previously thought to be Amur Leopards
1.1 born Chester in 1968 and 1969

Jaguar (Panthera onca) 4.3
1.0 born in the wild June 1969, arrived 4 October 1969 from Mr Rubenstein
0.1 born in the wild 1965, arrived 20 May 1965 from Jabira, Netherlands
3.2 born at Chester

Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) 1.1
1.1 born Whipsnade October 1973, arrived on loan 4 November 1974

Lions were either not recorded, or missed off the list by me.
 
What small cat would anyone most like to see Chester get next? What does anyone think likely? I can't wait til they get cheetahs. Amazingly, I've never seen one!
 
I'd love the zoo to get clouded leopards and my friend like jaguarundis. I quite like them too. I don't know where the zoo would put any new small cats, but they'll think of somewhere. they always do.

I've seen a cheetah once, at a zoo in Paris.
 
I have a feeling someone told me a few years back the zoo were trying to get Amur Leopard Cats.
 
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