I forgot if it has been brought up here but Zie Zoo how has had greater grisons since June.
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Where in the zoo are they being held?
South america building, hard to spot as they are technically still bts, but they can be seen. Temporarily place
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There are 2 males.
Here’s some footage of the zoos Manul cat.
Hopefully the next ZCer to visit Zie Zoo has the chance to see the cat in its habitat.
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A few noteworthy comments form a quick visit recently:
Both the small tanks on the "island" in the reptile attic were empty. Until recently they held round-eared elephant shrew and kowari. While the elephant shrew can still be seen (in the former caiman lizard tank together with Greek tortoises), there are seemingly no kowari left on-show.
The old ibis cage and the guineafowl holding cage have been demolished. The remaining sacred ibises have joined the stork aviary. The ground hornbills are also gone from their aviary, which now holds a flock of crested guineafowl. The sarus cranes and servals are still in their old enclosures.
The wetland aviary has been closed temporarily. The sign didn't say why. The birds can still be seen from outside the aviary though.
I saw young dwarf mongooses, a young parma wallaby and a very young (as in, a few weeks old) grey-crowned crane.
The two aviaries of the "eigen plek" ("own place") of the care zoo concept next to the wetland aviary are occupied: one with doves and chickens (native Dutch breeds: Hollands kuifhoen and Oud-Hollandse meeuw) and one with Japanese squirrels. The small paddock is not occupied yet but it seems like it will hold domestic guinea pigs.
Most carnivores showed very well: I saw a Siberian weasel, the maned wolf, twelve bushdogs (if I remember correctly), both striped hyenas and a clouded leopard. Didn't see the Pallas's Cat unfortunately and the painted dogs have seemingly not arrived yet.
Both the small tanks on the "island" in the reptile attic were empty. Until recently they held round-eared elephant shrew and kowari. While the elephant shrew can still be seen (in the former caiman lizard tank together with Greek tortoises), there are seemingly no kowari left on-show.
The old ibis cage and the guineafowl holding cage have been demolished. The remaining sacred ibises have joined the stork aviary. The ground hornbills are also gone from their aviary, which now holds a flock of crested guineafowl. The sarus cranes and servals are still in their old enclosures.
The wetland aviary has been closed temporarily. The sign didn't say why. The birds can still be seen from outside the aviary though.
I saw young dwarf mongooses, a young parma wallaby and a very young (as in, a few weeks old) grey-crowned crane.
The two aviaries of the "eigen plek" ("own place") of the care zoo concept next to the wetland aviary are occupied: one with doves and chickens (native Dutch breeds: Hollands kuifhoen and Oud-Hollandse meeuw) and one with Japanese squirrels. The small paddock is not occupied yet but it seems like it will hold domestic guinea pigs.
Most carnivores showed very well: I saw a Siberian weasel, the maned wolf, twelve bushdogs (if I remember correctly), both striped hyenas and a clouded leopard. Didn't see the Pallas's Cat unfortunately and the painted dogs have seemingly not arrived yet.
The July-September Newsletter is out. It does bring up the animals of the care zoo concept as Mr. Zootycoon has mentioned. Among the matters that has been mentioned in the zoo's social media, there is also an article about the istory of the land the zoo stands on which I myself find interesting.
If I am to look at a past map, where exactly am I supposed to find this structure?
They were part of the row of aviaries between the Zie-ZOO College and the corsac foxes. The former ground hornbill (now guineafowl) and ibis (now demolished) enclosures where in between the current enclosures for the corsac foxes and servals.
Side-note: They used to be part of an even bigger row as two of the aviaries in the row were demolished to build the Zie-ZOO College and two smaller ones were merged into what is now the sarus crane pen. When the zoo just opened, I remember the row holding a lot of species: white-naped crane, demoiselle crane, sacred ibis, laughing kookaburra, vietnamese pheasant, golden pheasant(?), snowy owl, great grey owl, ferruginous hawk, serval, dhole and corsac fox. While the enclosures, all things considered, weren't terrible, they weren't very good either, so I'm happy those days are gone. All species except the serval have left this row since my first visit.