Chester Zoo Chester Zoo Discussion and Questions 2022

As it says in the article, he is a strong male elephant, and will still show an anti body response, showing the vaccine works, he will be able to cope with any side effects, before they use on the more vulnerable younger animals.
 
The Hedgehog said:
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi_-teMi__1AhXSbsAKHbsOAk8QxfQBKAB6BAgDEAI&url=https://www.zmescience.com/science/uk-zoo-vaccine-trials-elephant-03022022/&usg=AOvVaw0bqFg92m7vlynZpCVHQu49 Why is Ang Bo being used as the Guinea Pig? EEHV affects Elephant Calf’s/Youngsters. I doubt very much this trial will be accurate as Aung Bo is a fully grown mature breeding bull. To my knowledge the at risk age range is 1-8 years old. Despite this the risk of contracting EEHV rapidly decreases after the age of 4.
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Does it or does the risk of death from contracting EEHV rapidly decreases? Pretty sure that some adults carrier the virus with no ill effects.
 
The Hedgehog said:
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi_-teMi__1AhXSbsAKHbsOAk8QxfQBKAB6BAgDEAI&url=https://www.zmescience.com/science/uk-zoo-vaccine-trials-elephant-03022022/&usg=AOvVaw0bqFg92m7vlynZpCVHQu49 Why is Ang Bo being used as the Guinea Pig? EEHV affects Elephant Calf’s/Youngsters. I doubt very much this trial will be accurate as Aung Bo is a fully grown mature breeding bull. To my knowledge the at risk age range is 1-8 years old. Despite this the risk of contracting EEHV rapidly decreases after the age of 4.
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Despite your doubts, I think it's reasonable to assume that a team of researchers from a major UK academic institution together with a UK zoo with decades of experience in keeping Asian Elephants might have planned the vaccine trial process quite carefully.
 
@The Hedgehog please remember your comments can be viewed by people outside of this forum(website) and could come across as offensive or undermining regarding all the hard work Chester have done over the last 13 years (at least) or longer
 
Embu said:
@The Hedgehog please remember your comments can be viewed by people outside of this forum(website) and could come across as offensive or undermining regarding all the hard work Chester have done over the last 13 years (at least) or longer
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@Embu I am definitely not undermining Chester Zoo’s hard work. I think it’s very commendable that Chester took on the laborious task of finding an EEHV vaccine. I was always longing for this day to come. I was just expressing that I “think it would make more sense trialing the new vaccination on Indali,Anjan or Riva”. This is merely my opinion and I am not slagging Chester off for carrying out the process as they are. I have only visited Chester once in 2014 and I remember how impressive the Asian Elephant enclosure was. I loved seeing the Calf’s interacting with the Adults.
 
The Hedgehog said:
@Embu I am definitely not undermining Chester Zoo’s hard work. I think it’s very commendable that Chester took on the laborious task of finding an EEHV vaccine. I was always longing for this day to come. I was just expressing that I “think it would make more sense trialing the new vaccination on Indali,Anjan or Riva”. This is merely my opinion and I am not slagging Chester off for carrying out the process as they are. I have only visited Chester once in 2014 and I remember how impressive the Asian Elephant enclosure was. I loved seeing the Calf’s interacting with the Adults.
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For the reasons given above it would probably make less sense to trial the vaccine on one of the younger animals. What if the vaccine has a significant adverse reaction? Isn't it better to run this risk, however small, with a robust adult animal?
 
Does anyone know what happened to Tatsu and Himba the aardvarks? I'm aware that a while ago the zoo moved them so they could only breed from Oni.
 
North Entrance said:
All the above.... AND Dexter Cattle (Whilst the children's farm was being built)
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Back to the Cattle House species list.

I had been thinking of a small cattle species missing off the list. I was thinking of dwarf zebu, but it must be a mistake on my part, because I know now of the Dexters. An ex-keeper told me they were very difficult to work with.

John Tuson's excellent book The Zoos of Great Britain and Ireland also mentions White-bearded Gnus and a Brazilian Tapir as former residents.
 
I don't remember seeing them in there Shavington Zoo, but that does not mean they wern't.

Areas I saw Bagot Goats in are the enclosure south of the sunken garden (now aviaries), and the sunken garden itself, the former peccary enclosure (now a coffee shop), the old dog enclosures (now butterfly house) and one of the paddocks west of the round enclosure (sun bear pit).

I just remembered another Cattle House species, common eland. I suspect they were youngsters awaiting transfer to another collection. I don't think the house could hold full grown eland.
 
Keelan said:
Could she potentially move to paradise wildlife park when the enclosure is finished
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Possibly, Cam Whitnall (part of family that owns and operates PWP) posted a picture of Kyra (young Chester sun bear) on his Instagram on the 3rd of January this year and I messaged him and asked if he was hinting that Kyra may be moving to Paradise, and he replied "Haha no, I visited the other day" - the same message that he was basically answering comments on the post that were asking the same question as I had. Take this as you will, I think it would be a move that would makes sense, but really I do not know.
 
On the Edinburgh Zoo thread @Kifaru Bwana stated the following
Kifaru Bwana said:
That may be, but .. it is the notion of vasectomy for the males AND breaking up the pride AND sending off the females elsewhere that makes for a unenticing unappealing concept and sight. You will get to see a dysfunctional pride for yonker years and after that they just simply and quietly disappear (just like a good part of the Edinburgh Zoo collection already is gone leaving just empty derilict enclosures with not any new inhabitants nor future planned). It lacks visitor appeal (and if and when it would become more widely known how Asiatic lions are currently being managed in the UK ... see Bristol, Chester, Paignton most definitely not good PR!
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where are Chester moving their Asiatic Lions too? I haven’t heard this news before
 
Zoo utsi leon said:
Does anyone know what happened to Tatsu and Himba the aardvarks? I'm aware that a while ago the zoo moved them so they could only breed from Oni.
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when I went in late November their were 1:2 so tatsu is still in the zoo with oni who is the mother of the new arrival but himba was moved to a zoo in Germany in summer 2017 this was shown on the last episode of the 4th season of slotz the reason they moved her was because the current breeding male koos his her brother and was trying to mate her
 
Does anyone know if a new species has been added to the old Bush dog enclosure by the red pandas because until she passed away quite recently adaze the zoos last female cheetah died does anyone if any new species has taken over that enclosure and speaking of cheetahs what happened to KT and safi
 
hari Jones said:
Does anyone know if a new species has been added to the old Bush dog enclosure by the red pandas because until she passed away quite recently adaze the zoos last female cheetah died does anyone if any new species has taken over that enclosure and speaking of cheetahs what happened to KT and safi
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Re. the Cheetahs, Safi died back in 2017. Kinky Tail (KT) has also likely passed away within the last few years, due to her age.
 
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