Chester Zoo dik-dik baby

Trust a ZooChatter to go past the fantastic scene shown and point out something like that. ;)
 
kiang said:
On the board in the background is a white board, with sea-lion Munich Hellabrunn, is this where one of the new animals came from?
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Chester imported 0:1 sealion from Munich and another 0:1 from Nuremburg Zoo's last year.
 
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Stripes said:
Chester imported 0:2 sealions from Munich and another German zoo last year. Hella has now moved elsewhere although they still have the other one Lara.
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They only brought in 2 new females last year not 3,you are right that one came from Munich cannot remember were the other one came from.Neither of which have been sent to another collection.
 
I meant that they had come from seperete zoo's. Lara was from Nuremburg Zoo and Hella from Munich.
 
Further to my last post, i have enlarged the pic, and i am sure the last word on the bottom of the white board is jaguarundi!
 
Just to let you UK guys know it made the newspapers here in Brisbane today, cute baby
 
and it was on the tv news here tonight. The news-reader simply called it a "tiny baby antelope"...maybe he didn't want to say dik-dik :D
 
Back in the 1920s (or 1930s) the former London and North Eastern Railway named several steam locomotives after species of Bovidae. They had locos called impala, eland, blackbuck etc. The only time they did not use the common name was for the dik-dik. The naeplate read Madoqua.
 
bongorob said:
Back in the 1920s (or 1930s) the former London and North Eastern Railway named several steam locomotives after species of Bovidae. They had locos called impala, eland, blackbuck etc. The only time they did not use the common name was for the dik-dik. The naeplate read Madoqua.
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I wonder if the people who picked the names were aware that a DikDik is a tiny diminutive antelope, as it doesn't seem as suitable for naming a Steam Engine after as some of the others.
 
i think Kirk wants his dik-dik back ^^

poor humour over - its great news that theyve breed quite fast - faster than colchester xD

can anyone tell me where these dik-dik's originated?
 
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