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Can confirm that the Okapi calf , in answer to my previous question is doing well we saw it yesterday
 
Looks like the main giraffe house that's gone up first. Obviously no work on the overnight accommodation, as planning isnt approved yet
 
derek said:
Matteo was swapped with a male from Port Lympne called Oberon, he is with Lima in the main front enclosure. Pacha is in the back enclosure offshow, and Bernie is in the enclosure next to the SOTJ and is moving to a zoo in Berlin soon!
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Matteo and Pacha are male and female cubs born there in 2020. Is that correct? The video says they plan to breed Oberon with the young three year old female, maybe also with the mother(or not) if he is already with her, but she is not mentioned.
 
Embu said:
Is he allowed to do this drone footage or does he have to ask for permission from the zoo?
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He does not need permission from the zoo to fly over the zoo provided that he follows the rules for flying over private land, such as the minimum height restriction, not invading restricted airspace and not being a nusiance to members of the public. I am sure that being an experienced pilot he already does all of these. He has said that he will not fly over the animal areas. His interest is in the building work.
 
derek said:
Matteo was swapped with a male from Port Lympne called Oberon, he is with Lima in the main front enclosure. Pacha is in the back enclosure offshow, and Bernie is in the enclosure next to the SOTJ and is moving to a zoo in Berlin soon!
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Went yesterday and Obe and Pacha are together in the front enclosure and I assume Lima is in the back enclosure (unless they are all in together). This would tie up with the zoo statement that Obe was brought in to breed with Pacha.
 
MennoPebesma said:
Chester Zoo will soon welcome a family of Roloway monkeys from Ouwehands Dierenpark in the Netherlands. The family consists of a male, a female and their two young.

Source: Facebook Ouwehands Dierenpark
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Oh this is very exciting! Curious if they'll be saved for Heart of Africa or go elsewhere in the zoo. Very nice to see another African monkey species at the zoo :)
 
Dassie rat said:
In the 1960s, the monkeys would have been identified as Diana monkeys
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No. Chester's were identified as Roloway's back then too. Seem to remember a photo taken at Chester is used to illustrate this species for a Handbook of Living Primates, a book produced at that time. They may have had Diana monkey at the same time but cannot be sure.
 
Pertinax said:
No. Chester's were identified as Roloway's back then too. Seem to remember a photo taken at Chester is used to illustrate this species for a Handbook of Living Primates, a book produced at that time. They may have had Diana monkey at the same time but cannot be sure.
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A near miss ;)
I have just checked and I think the photo you mean is in Napier & Napier's other book The Natural History of the Primates. It shows a Diana monkey and a Roloway together in one of the cages in the horrible old Monkey House (on the site of the current one). I don't think I have a photo of either species in that house, although I did take quite a few pictures there in the 1970s.
 
jde7582 said:
As a West African species. May go into what ever developments happen for the giraffe/tropical house
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Would make sense as an end goal, curious if they'll be on show before then however. Only place I could see them going would be along the canal islands or potentially mixed with the mandrills though not sure that's ideal considering they'd both be breeding groups.
 
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