Chester Zoo Chester Zoo News 2022

From what I can gather from posts on another thread (I've linked it below - it's post number 9 by FunkyGibbon), the small mammal enclosure next to the restaurant was originally meant to be housing a mix of mongooses, ground squirrels and bat-eared foxes.

Grasslands Zone Plans [Chester Zoo]

The thing I'm quite curious about is the mixed species indoor habitat across from the hyraxes. I'm wondering whether it means that it will be a single display for multiple species, or whether it will be housing a mixture of species in different displays - I know the original plans had quite a lot of smaller species included such as red spitting cobras, electric blue geckos, naked mole rats, fishes and invertebrates (dung beetles, mantis, giant centipedes and locusts all mentioned).
 
Chester have Red Spitting Cobra's and another Venomous Snake to go into the Heart Of Africa exhibits. Ethiopian Viper of some kind.

They don't have dung beetles, but they do have Hercules beetles at present.
 
I was just reading the marwell thread and it said that one of the male giraffes moved to marwell recently I'm taking that male is mburo or Albert but most likely it's mburo
 
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hari Jones said:
I was just reading the marwell thread and it said that one of the male giraffes moved to chester recently I'm taking that male is mburo or Albert but most likely it's mburo
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@hari Jones I think you meant to say moved from Chester. Mburo and Albert already resided at Chester Zoo. If a Male Giraffe has moved to Marwell Zoo I would guess it’s Mburo. Mburo was the eldest Male offspring from Meru. I would say Mburo’s about 3 years old. This is on the elder side of the scale for a Male Giraffe to leave their biological heard.
 
I just returned from a nice long visit to Chester, unfortunately I don't really have a solid answer for which giraffe left... Because a keeper pointed out Albert in the herd but his sign was gone from the house while Mburo's is still up so I'm quite confused which one is gone. On the topic of giraffes, new calf Stanley is looking very well and was running off from his mother quite a bit.

Some other news which may or may not have been reported on:
- There is now red-bellied lemurs on the lemur island with the ring-tails.
- There is Tokay geckos mixed with the reticulated pythons on ROTRA.
- Tropical Realm is looking in a very rough state now, lots of enclosures off limits and barriers everywhere. The number of free flight birds also seems to be down.
 
Yes I noticed on my last visit that the red bellied have moved on to the island I asked a keeper why they had moved from the walkthrough and the keeper said the reason they have moved on to the island is because they were being dominated by the red ruffed in the walkthrough so they thought it would be best to move them because the red bellied had young earlier this year

I do agree with your statement on tropical Realm
I don't enjoy it as much as I used to primarily because they closed off the upper aviaries however when I was walking towards the caiman and bornean River turtle I did see the green aracari briefly from the ground floor when I looked up at the upper aviaries was the former Galapagos Tortoise exhibit still being redeveloped because it was when I was last there
 
hari Jones said:
Yes I noticed on my last visit that the red bellied have moved on to the island I asked a keeper why they had moved from the walkthrough and the keeper said the reason they have moved on to the island is because they were being dominated by the red ruffed in the walkthrough so they thought it would be best to move them because the red bellied had young earlier this year

I do agree with your statement on tropical Realm
I don't enjoy it as much as I used to primarily because they closed off the upper aviaries however when I was walking towards the caiman and bornean River turtle I did see the green aracari briefly from the ground floor when I looked up at the upper aviaries was the former Galapagos Tortoise exhibit still being redeveloped because it was when I was last there
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Yes it was still being redeveloped.
 
hari Jones said:
Yes I noticed on my last visit that the red bellied have moved on to the island I asked a keeper why they had moved from the walkthrough and the keeper said the reason they have moved on to the island is because they were being dominated by the red ruffed in the walkthrough so they thought it would be best to move them because the red bellied had young earlier this year

I do agree with your statement on tropical Realm
I don't enjoy it as much as I used to primarily because they closed off the upper aviaries however when I was walking towards the caiman and bornean River turtle I did see the green aracari briefly from the ground floor when I looked up at the upper aviaries was the former Galapagos Tortoise exhibit still being redeveloped because it was when I was last there
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Bornean River Turtle has left the collection by the way. There is a pair of Green Aracari upstairs next to the Collared Trogon's.
 
Are you sure because i saw it in with the caimans in tropical Realm last time I visited and they're still listed on ztl so perhaps they have moved offshow or back into monsoon forest
 
ZTL is not always accurate, Chester is showing holdings of maned goose and red-crested turaco, They don't have either.

Mayki saw tokay geckos, they are not yet on ZTL.

I'm sure I saw the turtles in with the caimans on my last visit in August. They could have been exported since then.
 
hari Jones said:
Are you sure because i saw it in with the caimans in tropical Realm last time I visited and they're still listed on ztl so perhaps they have moved offshow or back into monsoon forest
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I am 1000% sure it's left the collection. It left last Tuesday. Only the Caiman in that exhibit. It left the collection last Tuesday for another zoo, although not sure where.
 
Jonfla said:
I was advised today by a staff member.
Grasslands is being renamed Heart of Africa, with spades due in the ground January/February.
In addition a new enclosure is being built near the red pandas, for snow leopards. ( I didn't see that coming).
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Small Himalayan area maybe?
 
Jonfla said:
Grasslands is being renamed Heart of Africa
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I'm sceptical if all this is true, this is pretty big if so. I'll wait to hear it from the zoo themselves because it seems a bit strange to just give away a massive species acquisition like that.
 
What do you mean Mayki? Giving away which species?

No plans for a snow leopard exhibit on the council website. I thought they had a legal obligation to make available any plans submitted to them. I guess this will be in the area of the old bush dog enclosure
 
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