Chester Zoo Chester Zoo Chester 2011 #5

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I second what SMR says here - in the frightening number of visits I have made to the zoo this year I too have never seen any rats around, occasionally mice and luckily once a Water Vole in the reed bed near the entrance.
 
IanRRobinson said:
I have to admit that I've never forgotten seeing an enormous brown rat scurrying across the footpath near the old Condor aviary in 1994. Not that I'm knocking Chester; zoos seem to have always had a problem with rats and mice.
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See my thread 'Rats in Uk Zoos' (or similar) which I started after seeing a number of Rats in Colchester Zoo a year or so back.
 
SMR said:
To date, I haven't seen a rat in the zoo, just mice, and then primarily in the houses.
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On the bird walk and talk we were told of rats in several aviaries predating chicks, eg the laughing thrush aviary just outside the tropical house,which has since been made rat-proof
 
Does anyone know if the grey-breasted conures (Pyrrhura griseipectus) have bred this year at Chester. I know they have 2 pairs off show, but I haven't heard anything lately about them.
 
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I didn't hear anything about it and I was a bit surprised as I can say from personal experience that they are an easy species to breed.
 
I was quite spooked at the zoo on Monday. I'm never scared, I always trust that the animals are safely confined but the zoo was very quiet and my friend & I were the only people in the wild dogs exhibit. Some of the dogs were scrabbling about by the fence, where there is just fence covered with that screening stuff. They just felt really, really close and scary! My friend was up ahead but had felt the same when she passed them (she was worried they were digging!)
 
OrangePerson said:
I was quite spooked at the zoo on Monday. I'm never scared, I always trust that the animals are safely confined but the zoo was very quiet and my friend & I were the only people in the wild dogs exhibit. Some of the dogs were scrabbling about by the fence, where there is just fence covered with that screening stuff. They just felt really, really close and scary! My friend was up ahead but had felt the same when she passed them (she was worried they were digging!)
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I always get the feeling they are plotting their escape - I was on my own down there in the summer and one waded into the water and looked up at me on the bridge - direct eye contact as if to say "move along human, there is nothing for you to see here!" :D
 
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