Chester Zoo Chester Zoo summer 2014

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A brief visit yesterday, the first of three in six days.

A spectacled owl chick has just left the nest.

tank 2 in the aquarium now exhibits Crescent splitfin (Zoogonrticus tequila) (Crescent Zoe as labelled) and tank 3 now has long-finned characin (Brycinnis longipinnis). The side-necked turtle tank with the unlabelled cichlids has another, very small, cichlid species.

one of the duikers was very showy. I only saw one vicuna, although there were two food bowls in the paddock.
 
bongorob said:
A brief visit yesterday, the first of three in six days.
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I'm sorry I didn't bump into you as I was having my first visit for three months. I can confirm all your observations except for the spectacled owlet (I was distracted by the noise the hawk owl chick was making).
The old tanks in the aquarium have either had their glass replaced or skilfully repolished, as there are now no scratches :) The cichlids in with Roti Island sidenecks are the pin-striped damba which used to be kept in the tank that now holds the crescent zoes - I wondered if the small cichlids in the tank were their offspring, but I couldn't convince myself.
I haven't seen any mention of the new construction on the butterfly house side of the condor aviary: part of the aviary wall has been replaced and what appear to be new off-show aviaries have been installed on the site of what was once a small paddock holding striped hyaenas. Or is this just renovation of aviaries that I had never noticed before?

Alan
 
gentle lemur said:
I'm sorry I didn't bump into you as I was having my first visit for three months. I can confirm all your observations except for the spectacled owlet (I was distracted by the noise the hawk owl chick was making).
The old tanks in the aquarium have either had their glass replaced or skilfully repolished, as there are now no scratches :) The cichlids in with Roti Island sidenecks are the pin-striped damba which used to be kept in the tank that now holds the crescent zoes - I wondered if the small cichlids in the tank were their offspring, but I couldn't convince myself.
I haven't seen any mention of the new construction on the butterfly house side of the condor aviary: part of the aviary wall has been replaced and what appear to be new off-show aviaries have been installed on the site of what was once a small paddock holding striped hyaenas. Or is this just renovation of aviaries that I had never noticed before?

Alan
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The work near the Butterfly House is for a new off-show holding area but not for birds.
 
Three more warthog piglets have been born to father 'Magnum' and mother 'Kizzy', the zoo have confirmed; this follows on from the two born last month to Kizzy's sister Tamzin. These are the two females who used to live in the cattle house (exhibit currently occupied by malayan tapir) having arrived from Colchester together a few years ago.
 
RZSS free entry

As a RZSS member I get one free entry per year into Chester Zoo.

How does this work on the gate? Do they have a big book and record the card details?

At Edinburgh or HWP I just flash the ticket and straight in.
 
Ahh so the restriction that you can use it only once per year is an honour system.

Is there a special members entrance at Chester?
 
Any talk of a walk and talk again this year?? It usually happens late June or July, so wondered if any chance of happening again this year?

Hope so!! There is a lot to talk about since the last one....
 
ChesterZooFan said:
Any talk of a walk and talk again this year?? It usually happens late June or July, so wondered if any chance of happening again this year?

Hope so!! There is a lot to talk about since the last one....
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Not at this moment in time,there is nothing planned for this year,but if and when something is sorted and arranged the dates will be posted on here!
 
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Two mammal species arrived in 2013, Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus) , and Javan Banteng (Bos javanicus javanicus).

New this year is Southern Three-banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus), but he is not on show.
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Sorry everyone, despite listed in the export of stock from Leipzig to Chester, no three-banded armadillo arrived at the zoo. Chester does not have tiis species.
 
zoogiraffe said:
The work near the Butterfly House is for a new off-show holding area but not for birds.
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Wildcats possibly?

Also on Tuesday there was either an arrival or departure from the Elephant house? Didn't see much, just the large lorry and large animal container
 
Yassa said:
It seems that elephant Jangolie was moved to Madrid zoo.
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I am disappointed with this news, I have known Jangolie since she lived at Flamingoland from a youngster and was sent to Chester twenty years ago following the death of her companion at this zoo. Why has she been sent to Madrid?, no longer a breeding cow, if this is the case has Chester Zoo spared a thought for how the elephant feels, living at Chester for twenty years and suddenly packed of to Spain, leaving Thi,Maya and all the other elephants forever. I also note that the Captive Animal Protection Society have recently visited this zoo and have posted their observations on their facebook page, the Asian elephants and black rhino coming in for the greatest criticism. They noted that there is a sign at the elephant house stating that one of the elephants suffers from head weaving, they describe it as "a habit" probably started in her previous life where perhaps her living conditions were less than ideal. The elephant CAPS describe is not named but I am sure it is Jangolie they are referring to, So, Jangolie is no longer a breeder, she is a bit of an embarresment now as she is at times displaying stereotypic behaviour, how do you solve that, easy pack her off to Spain and will be forgotten about in a couple of weeks, I have today spent time on facebook defending this zoo on CAPS facebook page, stating it was a very good zoo, now I read this, not happy
 
Maybe Chester is trying to make room for another breeding cow? Or perhaps for their calf? I doubt they simply did it because "she was an embarrassment"

~Thylo:cool:
 
Do you really take anything issued by CAPS seriously?

Jangoli has been moved to Madrid to give her a chance to breed.
 
Animal Friendly said:
They noted that there is a sign at the elephant house stating that one of the elephants suffers from head weaving, they describe it as "a habit" probably started in her previous life where perhaps her living conditions were less than ideal. The elephant CAPS describe is not named but I am sure it is Jangolie they are referring to, So, Jangolie is no longer a breeder, she is a bit of an embarresment now as she is at times displaying stereotypic behaviour, how do you solve that, easy pack her off to Spain and will be forgotten about in a couple of weeks, I have today spent time on facebook defending this zoo on CAPS facebook page, stating it was a very good zoo, now I read this, not happy
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This is what is known as jumping to conclusions, taking two and two and making five :p the elephant which has the head-weaving issues is Thi Hi Way, who was born in a logging camp and as a result suffers from a few stereotypic behaviours - NOT Jangoli.

If you were familiar with the herd of elephants at Chester, you would know that since the arrival of the new male Aung-Bo, Jangoli has been kept separate from the herd whenever the male is mixed due to tensions between the pair - I would suggest this is a much more likely reason for finding her a new home as opposed to the motivation you assume Chester has. As Jangoli - although on the old side - is still cycling, moving her to Madrid might even permit her to breed.
 
bongorob said:
Do you really take anything issued by CAPS seriously?

Jangoli has been moved to Madrid to give her a chance to breed.
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CAPS did not state that this elephant had been sent to Madrid, nor am I stating everything they say should be taken as gospel truth, their posting was made several days ago before Jangolie was sent to Spain "to give her a chance to breed". I am not on the side of CAPS, however if Chester are justifying this elephantine move as giving the elephant a chance to breed, all I can say is she had plenty of chances while in residence at Chester,
 
Animal Friendly said:
however if Chester are justifying this elephantine move as giving the elephant a chance to breed, all I can say is she had plenty of chances while in residence at Chester,
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As noted above in my original reply to you, any attempts to introduce Jangoli to the current breeding bull have ended poorly. She *did* breed at Chester a total of three times; the first calf was stillborn but the other two are still alive and on the continent.
 
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