Chester Zoo Coatimundis moved?

[Maisie]

It looked yesterday as though the coatimundi enclosure by the giraffes/butterfly house was empty. The tall poles in the enclosure were down on the ground and there were a couple of pieces of hazard tape around. Anyone know if the enclosure's being refurbished for the coatimundis to return, or they've all been moved elsewhere? Have they perhaps all gone to join the spectacled bear?

 

[bongorob]

It was planned to move this group which I think were all old specimens, last year. I asked what would replace them and the answer was a picnic lawn. A male will be introduced to the females in the bear enclosure when the zoo wants to breed them again.

 

[Maisie]

Ooh, goody! A picnic lawn!

 

[LeeMac13]

another picnic lawn! soon it will be chester picnic lawns not chester zoo

 

[CZJimmy]

It could be said that this lawn is replacing the one which is being developed into the Babirusa enclosure...

 

[markun]

Where will the babirusa enclosure be?

 

[CZJimmy]

Where will the babirusa enclosure be?

On the lawn outside Realm of the Red Ape

 

[taun]

Ooh, goody! A picnic lawn!

Chester could do with some more open spaces to sit on in the summer. All my favourite places to go (because they were quiet) have gone.

 

[Maisie]

It seems a bit of an odd place to plonk a picnic lawn really. It's right on the main path from the elephant bridge to the West zoo and not really that large a space. It would be nice, as you say, to have some quiet secluded lawns off the beaten track to get away from the play areas and more densely populated parts of the zoo.

 

[CZJimmy]

It seems a bit of an odd place to plonk a picnic lawn really. It's right on the main path from the elephant bridge to the West zoo and not really that large a space. It would be nice, as you say, to have some quiet secluded lawns off the beaten track to get away from the play areas and more densely populated parts of the zoo.

It is right next to a kiosk though, so it is probably well positioned