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Combe Martin Wildlife & Dinosaur Park Combe Martin primates
- Thread starter Hadley
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Does anybody know anything about the primates at Combe martin? Do they still keep Concolor gibbons? What langur species do they keep?
The Langurs are the same as London's, the Sri Lankan form of Grey Langur. They may have come direct from Bristol- London's are descended from those at Bristol x Twycross. I believe Combe Martin's were obtained as surplus and may be only 3 or 4 in number, possibly all female.(so no breeding)
London's are descended from those at Bristol x Twycross.
Obviously, neither Bristol or Twycross have kept them for many years now, but the London ones are bred from foundation stock from those 2 zoos.
Thanks, that's interesting as the rest of the collection is fairly unremarkable. I'm suprised that they keep Concolor gibbons still, if this is indeed the case.
Yes, its almost a children's zoo. I emailed them recently to ask how many langurs they still had, and what the sex ratio was etc, but never got a reply.
These could be the only other Grey Langurs in Uk apart from ZSL ones- and that seems a dwindling group now...
Combe Martin Gibbons
The 5th July 2008ISIS report some includes stock from Combe Martin .
A male hybrid concolor gibbon is listed . I believe this was one of a brother/sister pair from at Twycross , bred from Zombie and Zoe who produced a lot of young in the 1980's . I believe they were all hand-reared , not certain the exact sub-species of the parents .
Combe Martin also list 1.2 lar gibbons but no langurs .
The 5th July 2008ISIS report some includes stock from Combe Martin .
A male hybrid concolor gibbon is listed . I believe this was one of a brother/sister pair from at Twycross , bred from Zombie and Zoe who produced a lot of young in the 1980's . I believe they were all hand-reared , not certain the exact sub-species of the parents .
Combe Martin also list 1.2 lar gibbons but no langurs .
Combe Martin also list 1.2 lar gibbons but no langurs .
A pity if the Langurs have now died- although they were evidently a nonbreeding/single sex group. With ZSL now having I think only o.2 left, this species will soon be no more in the Uk- unless somewhere makes an effort to save it.