Amazona Zoo Cromer Zoo

I'll have to take a look at the train details! My mum (also a zoo fan) is currently trying to persuade me that it's not that far to Newquay either - if she reads this she'll be trying to combine the two!! :D
 
Visited this place (and Thrigby - love the Hunting Cissas!) today. It's quite a nice little place - very similar to Thrigby in feel and design. Stocklist as of today is below - probably need to add some things I've forgotten later...

More details and photos to follow!

Amazona Zoo, Cromer, June 2008

Jaguar
Puma
Ocelot
American River Otter
Ring-tailed Coati

Geoffroy’s Spider Monkey
Common Squirrel Monkey
Common Marmoset

Brazilian Tapir
Collared Peccary

Capybara
Azara’s Agouti
Mara

Greater Rhea

Andean Goose
Muscovy Duck
Ringed Teal
Patagonian Crested Duck
Bronze-winged Duck
White-faced Whistling Duck
Fulvous Whistling Duck
South American Comb Duck
Bahama Pintail
Chiloe Wigeon
Coscoroba Swan

Amazons (Not labelled and I’m no expert but seemed to be mostly aestiva and ochrocephala)
Black-headed Caique
Blue-and-gold Macaw
Green-winged Macaw
Patagonian Conure
Black-headed Conure

Chilean Flamingo

Striated Caracara

Guira Cuckoo

Common Piping-Guan
Bare-faced Currassow

Ypecaha Wood Rail
Crested Seriema

Spectacled Caiman

Common Boa
Green Anaconda
Green Iguana

Red-bellied Piranha
Black Pacu
Glowlight Tetra
Red-tailed Catfish

EDIT: A dozen or so photos now up in my gallery - including the zoo map and puma enclosure.
 
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It looks okay, but seems to have a lot of growing up to do. The nicest looking exhibit is the coati Island, as that has some grown trees on, and a little more shrubbery.

Does the zoo have capuchin monkeys yet?

How much room for expansion would you say there is at the zoo?

Thanks for posting your pictures and species list.
 
^Chris^ said:
It looks okay, but seems to have a lot of growing up to do. The nicest looking exhibit is the coati Island, as that has some grown trees on, and a little more shrubbery.

Does the zoo have capuchin monkeys yet?

How much room for expansion would you say there is at the zoo?

Thanks for posting your pictures and species list.
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Capuchins - not yet - the island marked on the map for them has no development on it at all so could be a while.

Expansion - the grounds are generally quite roomy so there's space for new exhibits on the current site but the existing exhibits are well spread so it would be difficult to put up anything particularly large. There are green fields adjoining but I'm not sure what the politics of building on these would be in terms of ownership, green belt status etc.

Glad to be of use!
 
I don't think ownership of the land would present a problem as It's all owned by Benji Cabbell-Manners apart from the bit he sold to Ken Sims. I don't think he'd be averse to selling a bit more!
 
Paulus said:
I don't think ownership of the land would present a problem as It's all owned by Benji Cabbell-Manners apart from the bit he sold to Ken Sims. I don't think he'd be averse to selling a bit more!
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Yes but the coment regarding green belt land is the key, working in the construction industry I know that it is extremely differecuilt to get planning permission on green belt land. So even if he doe buy more land, he could have problems gaining planning permission
 
Tapir81 Do you Plan to include Maned wolf, Margay, Jaguarundi, Spiecticaled bear and things like Giant river otters, And domestic animals( Llamas, Guanaco, Alpca and Vicuna,) Please post a spieces list
 
I'm notplanning to add anything I'm afraid, it's not up to me :D I give ideas and ask but its not worked yet.. :p

I know we are on the hunt for Jaguarundi, the rest of your list is a no no as far as I know.. However, this can change.
 
Tapir81 said:
I'm notplanning to add anything I'm afraid, it's not up to me :D I give ideas and ask but its not worked yet.. :p

I know we are on the hunt for Jaguarundi, the rest of your list is a no no as far as I know.. However, this can change.
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I do now a place where you could get Jaguarundi from, Cotswold wildlife Park had cubs last time I went
 
Hamerton also have jaguarundi which I think was where the Cotswold animals came from . The Rare Species Centre in Kent also report breeding .
 
Well I guess Hamerton don't always take a great deal of notice of EAZA ;) and have been breeding them quite successfully since they got them (I think from Kilverstone when it closed. They took on most of guernsey's stock when it closed also but I'm pretty sure they only had servals and no new world cat species). I remember stock lists being circulated after the attempt to reopen kilverstone with small cats, tayra etc being offered. I think Hamerton took on a fair number of unusual species from Kilverstone, it's a shme they never had the same success breeding from the Oncillas. From what it would seem of late, both the current owner of cotswold and the RSCC have very strong collection plans that seem to lead rather than follow.
 
johnstoni said:
From what it would seem of late, both the current owner of cotswold and the RSCC have very strong collection plans that seem to lead rather than follow.
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Im interested as to why Cotswold have recently forged ahead with both new exhibits and future plans after a long period( about thirty years..) with little development, though as far as I know it remains in the same family.
 
I guess if you know you are going to inherit a wildlife park at some point you have years planning how you might do things....I really appreciate collections like hamerton, cotswold etc, pushing ahead with animals not necessarily recommended to them....it's not as if we are going to see Red river hogs or Sulawesi macaques released into the wild anytime soon, and as RSCC and Howletts have proved, having respectful working relationships with in situ rescue centres is a mutually-beneficial process, and kind of circumvents the idea that a small captive population means you just give up using up enclosure space on that species (in some cases). It also shows there are other routes into BIAZA collections for species not currently represented than through buying stock from private breeders/importers (as would appear the case with Amazon zoo world + Five Sisters).

Going back to Cromer....on the thrigby website it states that the gardens were the first zoo anywhere to sign their entire collection over to the Joint Management of Species Plan
Thrigby Hall - What we are about!
Is this still an unusual occurrance? It struck me as odd, seeing as, for years after this statement, thrigby kept (and still keeps) a single clouded leopard and a single temminks golden cat, with no facilities to really attempt breeding, and before belfast and edinburgh the golden cat was the only one in the UK for about 10 years. Thrigby also held a group of albino rhesus macaques for some years.....I just found it strange that, out of all the UK collections I knew, that thrigby would be an example of what an entire collection signed over to a JMSP would look like. Would anyone know if Amazona zoo is/will be signed over in its entirety in the same way?
 
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