Chester Zoo Game

I'm probably wrong but I'm thinking along the lines of the Gaboon Viper.While it may not come from the Mediterranean,snakes have cultural reverence in some places but are viewed as deceiving and untrustworthy in others.
 
gentle lemur said:
Do you remember Peter Cook's old line 'I could have been a Judge, if I had the Latin'?
My O-level Latin points to Columba livia, the rock pigeon. The empress Livia, wife of Augustus, was a thoroughly nasty piece of work, according to Suetonius; while St Columba was a good egg, probably according to Bede.
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Bloody hell :p your mind works far too closely to my own - and you didn't even need the clue implicit in the word "graves", which was of course a reference to Robert Graves, author of I Claudius!

Your turn, @gentle lemur!
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Bloody hell :p your mind works far too closely to my own - and you didn't even need the clue implicit in the word "graves", which was of course a reference to Robert Graves, author of I Claudius!
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Agreed! Far too closely! I did think of Graves, but didn't connect him to the clue, as my mind was on higher and more saintly things. I also happened to take a photo of one of Chester's rock doves on my last visit, I was disappointed to note that it has feathered legs, which suggests to me that it is not from completely wild stock (probably like every other rock dove in the UK).
New puzzle. Striped by name, but not by nature.
 
Although it *does* have stripes, I suppose we had best get the obvious guess out of the way: Chinese Three-striped Box Turtle perhaps?
 
Many-lined Sun Skink (Eutropis multifasciata) - the specific portion of the scientific name means "many stripes/lines", but in my experience the species is rather absent of this feature.
 
Tastes like chicken.I'm thinking Mountain Chicken Frog as the animal was described to taste like chicken which is where it got it's name from.
 
Here is my riddle which may or may not be easy.As the usual,an explanation will be required.
"You'll see me when the sun is high and also late at night."
 
Sun bear, obviously the "sun" is high on there bodies and they are somewhat nocturnal, that or the Rodriguez fruit bat for being nocturnal but also being found in some outdoor enclosures awake in the middle of the day.
 
Is it the jaguar due to its two fur colours (bright orange and pure black to symbolize night and day)?
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Rodrigues fruit bat. It can be seen roosting in trees during the day and seen flying at night, provided there is enough moonlight.
 
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