The pademelons and tree kangaroo will be in the Papua section, between the bridge from the warty pigs and the cassowaries.
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Chester Zoo Chester Zoo Reports 2018
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littleRedPanda
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Did the female die shortly before the pups were born, as we were told then there was a recent death? I can't remember if we just came to the conclusion that there were only two remaining adults.
littleRedPanda
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Just found my previous post, when we were told the male had died some time around the pups birth.
Aha! I remember now!
That’s the one, I thought I had picked that up from on here.
There was one dog that was distinctive as it was mainly sandy- coloured- I saw that one last May/June but its not there now. Perhaps that was the male that died recently.
AardvarkJosh
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A very interesting talk tonight from the Botanical and horticultural teams some exciting work going on for this summer. Also this week the dominant male Mandrill has been put down after numerous health issues.
Anything, you are allowed to reveal and share here?
AardvarkJosh
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This years summer event will be Wild Worlds a Horticultural festival with several new gardens and displays.
AardvarkJosh
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Not entirely I expect a flower themed play area will make an appearance.
Is this a joke or for real?!
AardvarkJosh
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Partly a joke but there will be “intera” elements for the kids.
Well, you really don’t ever know for sure with Chester!
FunkyGibbon
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I've moved the Frankenstein/Easter stuff and the more whimsical garden chat into Discussions. I know it's difficult to pinpoint when something has become too tangential or too off-topic, but I think the line was crossed somewhere 
Today I visited Chester for the first time this year. A noticed a few things which don't seem to have been mentioned here before (although I haven't checked the other Chester threads, so I apologise if I am repeating anything). I also apologise for the randomised order of these remarks.
I looked very carefully at the fishes in the Jag House. I'm sure this list isn't complete, as there were a couple of species I didn't recognise:
I was pleased to see all the Bornean orangs, dear old Martha was outside eating Berberis leaves very carefully (the stems are very spiny) and Tuan was sitting on the floor of his bachelor pad. The Monsoon Forest has new automatic doors, which is perhaps why it was closed when Pertinax visited. There was at least one noisy giant hornbill in the 'off-show' aviary behind the Burmese brown tortoises, with what seemed to be a nest box (it looked quite like two oil drums, but it was hard to see it clearly). As Pertinax remarked, the new 'squirrelarium' beside the entrance to Islands looks quite large - I think it might well hold more than one species eventually.
Finally there was a cameraman filming the hunting dog pups, which are now about half adult size - so look for them when 'The Secret Life' returns.
I looked very carefully at the fishes in the Jag House. I'm sure this list isn't complete, as there were a couple of species I didn't recognise:
Twig catfish, Farlowella species
Giant twig catfish, Sturiosoma species
Sterba's catfish, Corydoras sterbai
Emerald catfish, Corydoras (Brochis) splendens
Cardinal tetra
X-ray tetra
Diamond tetra, Moenkhausia pittieri
Silver hatchetfish
Emperor tetra, Nematobrycon palmeri
A bloodfin tera, perhaps Aphyocharax rathbuni, but I'm not sure
Semaprochilodus species (too small to identify)
Eartheater (again too small)
and best of all a nice group of an elegant Hemiodus species (my money would be on H. gracilis - but I'm afraid I'm fallible on characins)
When I arrived, Holmes the male onager, was in the main paddock, but all the females, and the camels, seemed to be shut away. I saw one of the muntjacs for the first time and also a giant anteater in the narrow paddock opposite the crazy golf. There was an odd tortoise in with the ploughshares in DinD, from the shell markings I thought it might be a spider tortoise. The dwarf mongoose enclosure looked empty, perhaps because it is so close to the Madagascar site. In the Tropical House there was a new tree frog on display next to the caecilians (I wish I had written its name down, because I have quite forgotten it). The yellow-faced mynah has been paired up in one of the upper gallery aviaries, but the green aracaris were off-show while their aviary is replanted.Giant twig catfish, Sturiosoma species
Sterba's catfish, Corydoras sterbai
Emerald catfish, Corydoras (Brochis) splendens
Cardinal tetra
X-ray tetra
Diamond tetra, Moenkhausia pittieri
Silver hatchetfish
Emperor tetra, Nematobrycon palmeri
A bloodfin tera, perhaps Aphyocharax rathbuni, but I'm not sure
Semaprochilodus species (too small to identify)
Eartheater (again too small)
and best of all a nice group of an elegant Hemiodus species (my money would be on H. gracilis - but I'm afraid I'm fallible on characins)
I was pleased to see all the Bornean orangs, dear old Martha was outside eating Berberis leaves very carefully (the stems are very spiny) and Tuan was sitting on the floor of his bachelor pad. The Monsoon Forest has new automatic doors, which is perhaps why it was closed when Pertinax visited. There was at least one noisy giant hornbill in the 'off-show' aviary behind the Burmese brown tortoises, with what seemed to be a nest box (it looked quite like two oil drums, but it was hard to see it clearly). As Pertinax remarked, the new 'squirrelarium' beside the entrance to Islands looks quite large - I think it might well hold more than one species eventually.
Finally there was a cameraman filming the hunting dog pups, which are now about half adult size - so look for them when 'The Secret Life' returns.
I think I have now identified this frog as a the coronated treefrog, Anotheca spinosa, although I think the Zoo used a different English name. I managed to get one decent photo of it, which I will post today.
They're usually referred to as either crowned treefrog or spiny-headed treefrog by private keepers.
Which would be why I didn't see him on my recent visit. He had been there a long while, afaik he came originally from an animal dealer(?) and founded the present group with two females from Colchester.