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What sub species of animals are at the zoo?

do they Keep leopards?

there map shows elephants and buffalo, do they really have them?
 
Im rather certain Elephant and Buffolo are not at the zoo im pretty sure they keep Black Leopard/s.
I am visiting early Summer Holidays (mainly for the zoo!) so i will take pics of some of the enclosures for you, And try and get a species list for you.
Hope this is useful to you.
Regards
 
went today, species kept off the top of my head are:

Chimpanzee
Lar Gibbon
Rhesus Monkey
Pig-tailed Macaque
Patas Monkey
Black Spider Monkey
Common Marmoset
Cotton Top Tamarin
Red-handed Tamarin
White-lipped Tamarin
Ring-tailed Lemur
Sumatran Tiger
Black Leopard
Siberian Lynx
Asian Fishing Cat
Scottish Wildcat
Geoffroys Cat
Meerkat
Cape Porcupine
Red Squirrel
Brazilian Tapir
Capybara
Fallow Deer
Reindeer
Red-necked Wallaby

Ostrich
Emu
Rhea
Chilean Flamingo
African Crowned Crane
Blue Peafowl
Golden Pheasant
African Grey Parrot
Roseate Cockatoo
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
Umberella Cockatoo
Green-winged Macaw
Scarlet Macaw
Blue and Gold Macaw
Patagonian Conure
Monk Parakeet
Amazon Parrot
Sun Conure
Alexandria Parakeet
Ring-neck Parakeet
Bourkes Parakeet
Senegal Parrot
Rainbow Lorikeet
Red-rumped Parakeet
Crimson Rosella
Budgerigar
Cockatiel
White-cheeked Turaco
Humboldts Penguin
Barn Owl
European Eagle Owl
Indian Eagle Owl
Milky Eagle Owl
Horned Owl
Spectacled Owl
Little Owl
Boobook Owl
Short-eared Owl
White-faced Scopps Owl
Great Grey Owl
Snowy Owl
Eagle?
Bateleur Eagle

Green Anaconda
Boa Constrictor
Madagascan Boa
Cuban Boa
Olive Python
Bull Snake
Japanese Rat Snake
Royal Python
Green Iguana
Rhinoceros Iguana
Prehensile-tailed Skink
Leopard Gecko
Thai Water Dragon
Frilled Lizard
Uromastyx
Common Tegu
Chuckawalla
Bosc Monitor
Nile Monitor
Common Snapping Turtle
Burmese Brown Tortoise
Leopard Tortoise
Red-footed Tortoise
Greek Tortoise
Box Turtle
Pancake Tortoise
African Dwarf Crocodile

Orange Baboon Spider
Giant Millipede
Giant Land Snail
Hermit Crab

Camaroon Sheep/Pygmy Goat/ Rabbit/ Guinea Pig/ Degu/ Mouse
 
Fantastic list Bradipo, @ catman elephants and buffalo are statues by the cafe/shop and I imagine the black leopards are of mixed subspecies (probably labeled under west african) - though I may be wrong.
 
Im pretty sure they are of African Subspecies the elderly male Ziggy was rescued from a circus i think so thats abit of a dead-end.And then the female who i have forgotten the name of came fram Spain and is 6 years old.
 
Riziki said:
Im pretty sure they are of African Subspecies the elderly male Ziggy was rescued from a circus i think so thats abit of a dead-end.And then the female who i have forgotten the name of came fram Spain and is 6 years old.
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The male is a Hybrid not sure about the female but would say she is as well
 
It all leans on commensurate penalisation. If the commercial value of birds is not taken fully into account, the wildlife traders laugh all the way to the bank!

As long as politically wildlife crime and trade is viewed as marginal (which it is not as it is way bigger in commercial volume and value than the narco/drugs trade will ever be) the judicial system will remain largely ineffectual. :mad:

Consequently, the resources put into and the intelligence network provided by the criminal prosecution services are way behind the times in dealing with wildlife import-/export-crime, in-country theft of endangered species or whatever ... :eek:
 
The zoo now has 2:0 Racoons named Bandit and Banjo.

Parrots have still not been recovered (see seperete thread)
 
Surely these two leopards are sub-specific hybrids , as far as I know most black leopards in zoos are . What would be the point of breeding from them .
 
^they are a theme park, anything animal that makes money is 'an endangered species' to them, even if they are hybrid.
 
Nisha said:
A new male Black Leopard has arrived from Spain
Bid to breed rare black leopards at Drayton Manor Zoo - Top Stories - News - Birmingham Mail
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Rare??? no
Given that Glasgow bred so many and were practically giving them away, even noted by Doug Richardson in his book - "Big Cats" that Glasgow cornered the breeding of black leopard's that the zoo become to well-known. As the late zoo's director R.O'Grady said, the male black is far more aggressive than the female more-so with black's than their cousins. So nothing new in the breeding of these cats...;)
 
Bele said:
Surely these two leopards are sub-specific hybrids , as far as I know most black leopards in zoos are . What would be the point of breeding from them .
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What is wrong with breeding from taxa, or mutations, that are not endangered? If we were to continue this route then there would be much less variety in our zoos and this would make them poorer places in my eyes. Zoo's fulfil many functions, only one of which is conservation lets not forget. That said, I hope Drayton Manor did pursue pure subspecies options before deciding on hybrids.

Cat-Man said:
^they are a theme park, anything animal that makes money is 'an endangered species' to them, even if they are hybrid.
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I don't think that is quite true. All zoos use conservation as a marketing tool and there is not neccessarily anything wrong in that. IUCN ranks Panthera pardus as a species as "near threatened" and CITES as an Appendix I species. The spokesperson for DM should be familiar with the particular definitions of these rankings.

bigcat speciali said:
Rare??? no
Given that Glasgow bred so many and were practically giving them away, even noted by Doug Richardson in his book - "Big Cats" that Glasgow cornered the breeding of black leopard's that the zoo become to well-known. As the late zoo's director R.O'Grady said, the male black is far more aggressive than the female more-so with black's than their cousins. So nothing new in the breeding of these cats...;)
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The article is full of inaccuracies but, bigcat speciali, you seem to confuse the ease with which a species can be propagated in captivity with the status of its (wild or captive) population. Sure, Glasgow seems to have bred many black leopards but there aren't many around in zoos now and I've already pointed out IUCN and CITES rankings for the species (so either colour form) above. The demand for black leopards by zoos has dropped off inrecent years so they have largely died out from UK collections but I don't think there has ever been a problem breeding them as the article hints.
 
1.0 Sumatran Tiger will arrive at DM from Brno, Czech Republic tomorrow (currently in transit)
 
Zooterliste currently shows the following as species held by Drayton Manner do any of you which species are currently still at the collection as will be visiting this weekend with the whole family and would like to know the current state of the public viewable species please

African Spotted Eagle-owl

Alexandrine parakeet (No Subspecific status)

Bateleur eagle

Bell’s hingeback tortoise (No Subspecific status)

Black and white ruffed lemur

Boobook Owl

Chilean flamingo

Citron-crested cockatoo

Colombian black spider monkey

Common chimpanzee (No Subspecific status)

Common fallow deer

Cuban tree boa

Degu

Dwarf crocodile (No Subspecific status)

Emu

Eurasian red squirrel (No Subspecific status)

Fishing cat

Frill-necked lizard (Frilled lizard) (Frilled dragon)

Golden-handed tamarin (Midas tamarin) (Lacepede's tamarin)

Great green macaw (Buffon's macaw)

Great Horned Owl (Tiger Owl) (No Subspecific status)

Greater rhea (American rhea)

Home’s hingeback tortoise

Indian Eagle-owl

Indian ring-necked parakeet

Indian Scops-owl

Japanese ratsnake

Lar (White-handed gibbon) (no subspecies-status)

Laughing dove (Senegal dove) (no subspecific status)

Leopard (no subspecies-status)

Loggerhead musk turtle

Malagasy tree boa (No Subspecific status)

Meerkat

Moluccan rainbow lorikeet

Nile monitor

Northern lynx

Northern Raccoon (Common Raccoon)

Northern white-faced scops-owl

Olive python*

Pancake tortoise

Parma wallaby

Patas monkey (Hussar monkey) (Military monkey) (No Subspecific status)

Red ruffed lemur

Red-bellied lemur

Red-bellied tamarin (Red-chested moustached tamarin) (White-lipped Tamarin)

Red-necked wallaby (No Subspecific status)

Red-rumped parrot

Reeve's muntjac

Regent parrot

Rhesus macaque

Ring-tailed lemur

Rose-ringed parakeet (No Subspecific status)

Savanna monitor

Savu python

Scimitar-horned oryx (White oryx)

Scottish wildcat*

Siamang

Siberian lynx

Southern African porcupine

Spectacled Owl (No Subspecific status)

Sumatran tiger

Sun conure

Sunda pig-tailed macaque (Southern pig-tailed macaque)

Superb parrot

Triton cockatoo

Turkestan Eagle-owl*

Verreaux's Eagle-owl (Giant Eagle-owl)

White cockatoo

White tufted-ear marmoset (Common marmoset)
 
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