Chester Zoo Chester Zoo Reports 2018

[bongorob]

That would be 1997 then.

 

[Pertinax]

That would be 1997 then.

Presume you are referring to the male Mandrill... That would make him at least 21 years old but he may have already been adult(?) when he arrived at Chester. I'm presuming it has always been the same male- he had distinctive plucked arms.

 

[bongorob]

1997 was the year when Chester began keeping mandrills again, if JC was the original breeding male that was when he arrived at the zoo.

 

[robmv]

Presume you are referring to the male Mandrill... That would make him at least 21 years old but he may have already been adult(?) when he arrived at Chester. I'm presuming it has always been the same male- he had distinctive plucked arms.

'JC' was born at Usti nad Labem on Christmas Day 1992. He came to Chester via Ravensden, the erstwhile animal dealers.

 

[bongorob]

Thanks Rob

 

[jde7582]

Another good year for visitor numbers last year, over 1.8 million again.

 

[Charlie Simmomds]

Another good year for visitor numbers last year, over 1.8 million again.

Very good, probably would’ve been higher if the zoo hadn’t been closed several times due to the rubbish British weather.

 

[Pertinax]

'JC' was born at Usti nad Labem on Christmas Day 1992. He came to Chester via Ravensden, the erstwhile animal dealers.

Thanks. I knew he had come via a dealer. That would make him just over 26 when he died then.

 

[AardvarkJosh]

Thanks. I knew he had come via a dealer. That would make him just over 26 when he died then.

I thought he was 26.

 

[bongorob]

Very good, probably would’ve been higher if the zoo hadn’t been closed several times due to the rubbish British weather.

not really charlie, the zoo's projected atttendance figures were way down in June, more likely to have been the poor summer last year. It's still a good attendance figure though.

 

[Charlie Simmomds]

not really charlie, the zoo's projected atttendance figures were way down in June, more likely to have been the poor summer last year. It's still a good attendance figure though.

Ahh my mistake.

 

[Pertinax]

I thought he was 26.

That's what I said...

 

[Andy B]

not really charlie, the zoo's projected atttendance figures were way down in June, more likely to have been the poor summer last year. It's still a good attendance figure though.

It’s definitely seemed busier this Autumn/ Winter when I’ve visited (mainly young school children granted) than the last few years.

 

[AardvarkJosh]

That's what I said...

Sorry. To be clear I was agreeing with you.

 

[bongorob]

Another good year for visitor numbers last year, over 1.8 million again.

Offifical attendance for 2017 is 1,866,628

 

[Kifaru Bwana]

'JC' was born at Usti nad Labem on Christmas Day 1992. He came to Chester via Ravensden, the erstwhile animal dealers.

Is that not 25.12.1992? We now have just managed to live into 2018, but a long way off from ... Christmas Day 2018 (whence age 26???). Am I tis baaadd at arithmetic?

 

[bongorob]

Some juvenile Geophagus sveni are in the Jaguar house tank. This species was only described in 2010 and has no common name. I will be calling them Kullander's eartheater as they were named for Sven Kullander, a cichlid taxonomist.

 

[FunkyGibbon]

Some juvenile Geophagus sveni are in the Jaguar house tank. This species was only described in 2010 and has no common name. I will be calling them Kullander's eartheater as they were named for Sven Kullander, a cichlid taxonomist.

Have we got a source for this or was it your own personal observation?

 

[bongorob]

Have we got a source for this or was it your own personal observation?

Gentle Lemur has seen them, my information came from a keeper.

 

[FunkyGibbon]

News from the discussion thread, the Pallas cats have arrived at the zoo.

The Pallas cats are in there Sand Cat, not sure if they have access to the whole enclosure yet though. I don't think there is anything in the old Galapagos tortoise enclosure apart from Radiated tortoise, but you never know.