I remember back then discussing the differences between the two, its possible Chester only had a single Roloway?.The longer white beard never seemed a very strong distinguishing feature to me- I know it is though- and otherwise they seem near identical. I remember the old Monkey house well, for many years only those square indoor cages, but still a more modern style than many!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.
. Was the photohrapher John Doidge? I seem to remember his Chester (and Twycross) photos of primates featured a lot in those books.
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.
Thanks Rob
I'm not a photographer usually but I do remember the Monoley's guenon as it was unusual.
Interestingly, it seems like they are the only ones in Europe? Makes you wonder if other groups have been misidentified.
Eric Kirkland took that photo and many more at Chester. This may be the same image that @bongorob has on Chester Zoo News.As to the photo, I was close...
I might have done. I don't remember the Moloney's at all, but it is not impossible that I have a Preuss's image hiding in one of my slide boxes.
Not an uncommon species in the aquarium trade.
A rather nice book of Eric Kirkland's Chester Zoo photographs, Kirkland's Animals, was published in 1988.
I just discovered I still have this book in my own collection, and there it is, the photo with the Diana on the left and the Roloway on the right( or is it vice versa?) in threat posture.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.
Ouwehands seem not to have space for them any more, hence Chester taking them. It says the two offspring are both male- looking forward maybe in time the older one could be transferred to YWP who have already lost the male of their little group.
It doesn't say that. It says it is a family with two youngsters, nothing is said about the sex of the youngsters.
“Unfortunately we are saying goodbye to the Roloway meerkats. « The family, consisting of a man, a woman and their two boys, is moving to Chester Zoo in England. The kind is leaving, because at the moment, due to other ongoing construction projects, there is no room to build a new residence.” From the Zoos Facebook if mentions 3.1 (a male and female pair and their two male offspring)
That is the wrong translation of the Dutch word 'jongen'. It can both mean boy as well as offspring. In this case, it means offspring.
Thanks for the clarification. At least one female offspring in the group would be preferable really.That is the wrong translation of the Dutch word 'jongen'. It can both mean boy as well as offspring. In this case, it means offspring.