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Saw the baby Sifaka at the weekend, amazing to see, baby was very active in the indoor area of the enclosure.

I couldn't see any babirusa at all, adults or babies.

Does anyone know where the Collared Trogons are located in the zoo? I didn't spot them
 
Babirusa enclosures I'm aware of are.
Islands.
Old warty pig enclosure
Old anoa Island
Old serval enclosure
Normally mixed exhibit with otters outside of rotra however the otters in the orang exhibit when I last visited
 
hari Jones said:
Babirusa enclosures I'm aware of are.
Islands.
Old warty pig enclosure
Old anoa Island
Old serval enclosure
Normally mixed exhibit with otters outside of rotra however the otters in the orang exhibit when I last visited
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They have the ones by RORA, then in the old Serval exhibit, they also have another off-show exhibit the other side of this exhibit, it's split exhibit with an old retired from breeding female, and next to her is the main breeding male, who is moved to other exhibits to breed when needed.

There is then the ones which are reached to from this area by the keepers, but is under the walkway which goes up to where the Cheetah were, but the Wild Dogs are now.

I class that as 4 exhibits, although it's technically 5, although 2 are in the same block, it's just one house, with 2 paddocks.

The others are on Islands. The main ones you can see, which is a mum and her three offspring, and then there are the two young ones who are not on show but held in an offshow exhibit behind islands.

The groups are as follows

Mum and 2022 Offspring (Rora)
Mum and 2021 Offspring (Serval)
Retired female - offshow
Breeding male - offshow
Young male and separate exhibit with another female with access to the Walkway by Wild Dogs
Mum and three offspring - Islands
1 previous offspring - off show islands

So 6 full exhibits, but 7 if you include a split one in the same place.

13 in total, but when I was with that team in January, they did say they were planning to move on a few that couldn't be bred there. So that number may have dropped and some of the named above ones may in fact no longer be there, i,e the young male or the 1 previous young offspring.

Hope that helps.
 
Thanks Will be sure to try again next time, we ran out of time to go over the Cheetah bridge so missed opportunity there. Though I waited around the Islands enclosure for a while, as a keeper told me that is where the babies were, but saw nothing. Then no one was out at the otter mixed enclosure near the Orangutans either.
 
Fallax said:
Any idea if the aardvark are on show again? Sort of looked like they were in the meerkat enclosure now based on some footage on their Instagram but couldn't tell. Hopefully the red pandas stay on show somewhere, perhaps they will be in ROTRA for a while? Who knows.
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Aardvark are onshow, access to the meerkat enclosure is open again. No meerkats in there, just aardvarks, usually sleeping. Pandas are in ROTRA, there is a sign on the old enclosure showing how to get there. There is also a sign saying something new is arriving soon for the enclosure.
 
bongorob said:
Aardvark are onshow, access to the meerkat enclosure is open again. No meerkats in there, just aardvarks, usually sleeping. Pandas are in ROTRA, there is a sign on the old enclosure showing how to get there. There is also a sign saying something new is arriving soon for the enclosure.
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Thanks Rob, wonder what it could be moving in? :)
 
I'm hoping it's an Asian species to fit in wit the surrounding area or it could be them starting to prepare for the new himalayan area
 
bongorob said:
Aardvark are onshow, access to the meerkat enclosure is open again. No meerkats in there, just aardvarks, usually sleeping. Pandas are in ROTRA, there is a sign on the old enclosure showing how to get there. There is also a sign saying something new is arriving soon for the enclosure.
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It wouldn't be 'new' as such and its probably a silly guess but could the meerkats possibly be moving into the red panda exhibit temporarily? I find it hard to grasp that they'll be kept off show until the Africa development is completed, I know most zoo nerds don't pay meerkats much attention but they are one of the most popular zoo species these days!
 
Sand Cat said:
It wouldn't be 'new' as such and its probably a silly guess but could the meerkats possibly be moving into the red panda exhibit temporarily? I find it hard to grasp that they'll be kept off show until the Africa development is completed, I know most zoo nerds don't pay meerkats much attention but they are one of the most popular zoo species these days!
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Not convinced the mob of Meerkats that were there before are still there. Some moved on to other collections at the start of the year.
 
Sand Cat said:
It wouldn't be 'new' as such and its probably a silly guess but could the meerkats possibly be moving into the red panda exhibit temporarily? I find it hard to grasp that they'll be kept off show until the Africa development is completed, I know most zoo nerds don't pay meerkats much attention but they are one of the most popular zoo species these days!
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I don't think that exhibit is suitable for meerkats. It has a grass floor.
 
How did I forget the moat? Sometimes my friend and I watch mayflies and dragonflies darting over the water.
 
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