Chester Zoo Chester Zoo Discussion and Questions 2022

The Hedgehog said:
My evidence is that challenging Elephants don’t change. A prime example is Mya,she was disruptive at London and the same when transferred to Whipsnade. In fact Mya caused a ruckus between the herd,this led to the herd being split. Once Mya went to Spain in 2019 the herd was simultaneously reunited as one. Since then there’s been no further problems.
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Ive never known Mya as a problem elephant, I thought it was the fact that she never really got along well with Kaylee.

Whipsnade always kept the London girls seperate from the rest of the elephants, but following the deaths of Gita and then Azizah, Mya was left without the support of the elephants she was closest too and fought for dominance with Kaylee. This led to her having to be separated and sent elsewhere, rather than Whipsnade having to hold two seperate herds.
 
The Hedgehog said:
@Zoofan15 it sounds like the fault may have lied with some of the Elephant Keepers rather than with Karishma. Maybe all Karishma needed was further stimulation,and attentive keepers. Think of a young Child at school being given easy lessons by a boring teacher. They will miss behave. In contrast if a Child has fun but challenging lessons with an enthusiastic teacher they’ll behave better. It’s the same with Elephant Calfs which Karishma was back in 2006.
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Please don't spout none sense like this, you are in no position to even justify this.
 
@The Hedgehog you have been warned previously about making slanderous comments in the past (Chester elephant herd). If this continues whether it is intentional or not I will not hesitate to report your posts!!!

At the end of the day Karishma's move to Whipsnade would have been carefully researched and options explored before hand. This isn't Nellie the elephant.
 
Could someone tell me what birds are in the tsavo aviary, parrot breeding centre,Europe on the edge, wetland nursery, Bali aviary, flamingo enclosure and tropical realm and monsoon forest ???
 
Embu said:
Just to correct you YET again Karishma was NOT a calf back in 2006. She was born in 1998 so I'll let you work out the maths :rolleyes:
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@Embu Karishma would have been a year older than Indali at Chester is now. Indali is still considered a Calf. In fact I think up until the age of 8 Elephants are Calfs.
 
The Hedgehog said:
@Embu Karishma would have been a year older than Indali at Chester is now. Indali is still considered a Calf. In fact I think up until the age of 8 Elephants are Calfs.
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Indali is five and a half, Karishma was eight so that's not a year difference.

A calf is a calf for me until its weaned. Elephant calves finish weaning at the ages of two to three, so I can confidently say Karishma was not a calf at the time; more so a young female elephant. Eight is still quite old for her to be a juvenile, but she'd be very comparable to a teenager.
 
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Zoofan15 said:
As @Jambo stated above, a calf would be aged up to the age of around three years old (the age of weaning).

To explain it another way, a calf is a baby. An elephant of five years could potentially be cycling. A baby cannot conceive a baby.
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Just so I can process the information though my thick little head,a Calf is an Elephant upto 3 years. I personally thought Elephants become Adults at 8. I would say inbetween 3-5 is Child then 6-8 is a Teenager. Once an Elephant hits 8 I thought they were Adult. Am I correct in saying Elephants under the age of 3 have a 50% chance of contracting EEHV,while Elephants 8-17 have a 85% chance of NOT contracting EEHV.
 
jayden said:
Could someone tell me what birds are in the tsavo aviary, parrot breeding centre,Europe on the edge, wetland nursery, Bali aviary, flamingo enclosure and tropical realm and monsoon forest ???
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Birds in Tsavo
Lilac breasted roller
Village weavers
Hamerkops
Red winged starlings
Kenya crested guineafowl
Blacksmith plovers
And many more but I can't remember

The ''new'' Europe on the edge
Eurasian Black vultures
Northern bald /waldrapp ibis
Black stork

Rare parrot breeding centre
Onshow- Ecuadorian amazon's
Offshow various species of parrot but the only ones I know of and have seen from when the old tiger enclosure was there is Philippine cockatoos

Bird nursery
Varies from time to time

Bali aviary

Bali starlings
Pied imperial pigeons
Java sparrows
And I think red junglefowl but I think they may be in the other aviary in islands

Flamingo enclosure

Carribean/American Flamingo
Scarlet ibis
Roseate spoonbills
Muscovy duck
Orinoco goose
And many more
Tropical Realm
Too many for me to identify but the ones I do pay close attention to are the great Indian and javan rhinoceros hornbills

Monsoon forest

Again too many for me to identify but the ones I pay close attention to are the fairy blue birds and Victoria crowned pigeons and rhinoceros hornbills
 
Coming back to chester does anyone know when the old anteater enclosure old cassowary enclosure
And the round enclosure were boarded off because the last time I was there was October 2019 and there were a pair of pademelons in the old anteater enclosure and Bert the old male pudu who has now passed away was in the round enclosure does anyone have a species list of the animals who have resided in those enclosures

Because the only animals I remember in those enclosures were the anteaters, pademelons , and grey kangaroos and pudu
 
Just an addendum to Hari's post: when I visited on Saturday the Crested Guineafowl were no longer signed in Tsavo and there was at least one in the nursery enclosure (along with a single Hamerkop), which suggests that they're on the disposal list. Another notable species in the Europe aviary - along with several wildfowl taxa - is a flock of Azure Winged Magpie. The Red Junglefowl are indeed in the Bali aviary.
 
The Hedgehog said:
Just so I can process the information though my thick little head,a Calf is an Elephant upto 3 years. I personally thought Elephants become Adults at 8. I would say inbetween 3-5 is Child then 6-8 is a Teenager. Once an Elephant hits 8 I thought they were Adult. Am I correct in saying Elephants under the age of 3 have a 50% chance of contracting EEHV,while Elephants 8-17 have a 85% chance of NOT contracting EEHV.
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As a rough guide I would class 0-3 years as a calf; 3-8 years as a juvenile; 8-12 years as an adolescent (some sources say up to 15 years) and 12-15 years plus as an adult.

An elephant of eight years is definitely not an adult and is in the adolescent phase of development. Compare an eight year old bull to a mature bull and you will see a significant difference.

I’m not aware of any percentages regarding EEHV as it appears to vary between facilities. But an elephant around the weaning age is significant more vulnerable than any other age category and by eight years of age, the risk has decreased almost to that of an adult elephant.
 
Have any of the Coquerel's sifakas that went to the mainland had babies?

Just checked the threads and see no news ... I forgot they only went to Cologne and Tp Berlin
 
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No clue because they are for me the one species that always elude It gets me deja vu from when the blue legged mantellas when they were on show
 
littleRedPanda said:
Have any of the Coquerel's sifakas that went to the mainland had babies?

Just checked the threads and see no news ... I forgot they only went to Cologne and Tp Berlin
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Both of the males at Tierpark have passed away; one of the Tierpark pairs did breed beforehand per the 2021 annual report, but the offspring DNS.
 
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