Dudley Zoological Gardens Dudley Zoo News 2020

Just had an amazing visit to Dudley zoo loads to note in terms of developments
  • The new enclosure (the old kangaroo exhibit) is going to hold a pair of cassowarys. They were last on the site in 2007 in the same area. They are going to arrive Easter 2021. The paddock is in 2 halves with a large viewing gallery (seen in the video) with a educational board inside. It almost seems finished apart from the offshow house
  • Binturongs are together and are already cuddling on the radiator
  • New climbing frames across the whole site ! Impressive, quite quick
  • Camel extension is being used the whole family and seems lovely
  • Sloths still separated
  • Lion girls both mate calling and scent spraying (I assume they are attempting to alert a male)
  • New enclosure by the chimps and lorikeets. Its quite large and is due to hold the entire sites collection of black and white ruffled lemurs. This will allow better welfare and create space for the Bush dogs New home. Lemur walk-through also is having large scuffs due to this specie and so its hoped to calm down. The enclosure has a large on show house with overhead tunnels connecting to the large enclosure!
  • Wallabies still in the reindeer courtyard and house for some reason regardless to the walk through being open
 
Looks like I'm not going to be able to visit during the last week of the year as I'd planned so thanks for the great update @bintarong .

Where exactly is the new lemur enclosure by the chimps and lorikeets? Is it on the site of the farmyard?
 
bintarong said:
Just had an amazing visit to Dudley zoo loads to note in terms of developments
  • The new enclosure (the old kangaroo exhibit) is going to hold a pair of cassowarys. They were last on the site in 2007 in the same area. They are going to arrive Easter 2021. The paddock is in 2 halves with a large viewing gallery (seen in the video) with a educational board inside. It almost seems finished apart from the offshow house
  • Binturongs are together and are already cuddling on the radiator
  • New climbing frames across the whole site ! Impressive, quite quick
  • Camel extension is being used the whole family and seems lovely
  • Sloths still separated
  • Lion girls both mate calling and scent spraying (I assume they are attempting to alert a male)
  • New enclosure by the chimps and lorikeets. Its quite large and is due to hold the entire sites collection of black and white ruffled lemurs. This will allow better welfare and create space for the Bush dogs New home. Lemur walk-through also is having large scuffs due to this specie and so its hoped to calm down. The enclosure has a large on show house with overhead tunnels connecting to the large enclosure!
  • Wallabies still in the reindeer courtyard and house for some reason regardless to the walk through being open
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Great update, thank you! Did you happen to get any photos of the new developments?
 
Benosaurus said:
Looks like I'm not going to be able to visit during the last week of the year as I'd planned so thanks for the great update @bintarong .

Where exactly is the new lemur enclosure by the chimps and lorikeets? Is it on the site of the farmyard?
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The exit of lorikeet landing to the right on the grass bank. Connects on the bathroom wall aswell and borders the chimps offshow fence
 
Benosaurus said:
Thanks, so do the tunnels go over the path leading towards the chimp outdoor viewing area then?
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Yes the house is on the bank with a new path leading down for a viewing into the house. Tunnels lead over the path and into the new paddock. Its quite tall and large , looking forward to the development. The chimps offshore has not changed at all. The paddock simply borders it.
 
Thanks. That's an interesting place for it. I never thought of using that area before.

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View of chimp holding area - ZooChat (photo from 2018)

So, once the black-and-white-ruffed lemurs move in to the new enclosure, that with leave the growing group of ring-tailed lemurs, as well as 2.0 collared lemurs, in the lemur walkthrough.
 
Benosaurus said:
Thanks. That's an interesting place for it. I never thought of using that area before.

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View of chimp holding area - ZooChat (photo from 2018)

So, once the black-and-white-ruffed lemurs move in to the new enclosure, that with leave the growing group of ring-tailed lemurs, as well as 2.0 collared lemurs, in the lemur walkthrough.
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The hope is to get the site's lemur breeding back on track. I assume the other groups in the area behind the discovery centre are being moved to lemur Wood to create a more diverse and peaceful enclosure and allows the bush dogs to move in.
 
bintarong said:
Just had an amazing visit to Dudley zoo loads to note in terms of developments
  • The new enclosure (the old kangaroo exhibit) is going to hold a pair of cassowarys. They were last on the site in 2007 in the same area. They are going to arrive Easter 2021. The paddock is in 2 halves with a large viewing gallery (seen in the video) with a educational board inside. It almost seems finished apart from the offshow house
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Quick correction: Dudley's last Cassowary I believe passed away in 2009 and was soon replaced with Rhea which remained in the former enclosure until 2014 when the supposed Blue crane enclosure was under construction (even though the Cranes moved to another collection before that could happen). From 2016 when the revonated enclosure was finally constructed, it used to first house Romy the anteater and then the Kangaroos up until this year.

Either way I am surprised (and also very glad) to hear Cassowary are coming back to Dudley zoo. :D
 
Animallover1998 said:
Quick correction: Dudley's last Cassowary I believe passed away in 2009 and was soon replaced with Rhea which remained in the former enclosure until 2014 when the supposed Blue crane enclosure was under construction (even though the Cranes moved to another collection before that could happen). From 2016 when the revonated enclosure was finally constructed, it used to first house Romy the anteater and then the Kangaroos up until this year.

Either way I am surprised (and also very glad) to hear Cassowary are coming back to Dudley zoo. :D
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Strange the zoo states on the outside of the paddock that they are returning after the last passed in 2007. Maybe be a clerical error and a misinformation to the education department.
 
Sadly that image was taken in 2005 don't know why the information states 2009 it was in the corner exhibit by the aviaries next to the small picnic area opposite the Barbary Sheep
 
My apologies, I forgot to mention that the monkeys behind the discovery centre are blocked off due to covid and major works. I saw a new enclosure opposite the capuchin enclosure. Quite tall and I assume is to hold the moves. Is about the same length as the marmosets and connects to the house.
 
Sad but inevitable. I believe the plan was always to phase out this pack of 5 surplus siblings from Chester. I wonder when Diallo and Gamba died as I thought they had four wild dogs at the zoo (I think Azizi died some years ago).

This at least decomplicates at lot of matters at the zoo in terms of their planned future developments now there is no longer an 'upward chain' for that enclosure and should bring forward the date for work to start on building the new orangutan enclosure (that's if they still have the finances to do it in the current climate).
 
Benosaurus said:
Sad but inevitable. I believe the plan was always to phase out this pack of 5 surplus siblings from Chester. I wonder when Diallo and Gamba died as I thought they had four wild dogs at the zoo (I think Azizi died some years ago).
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I don't think they were from Chester - apart from anything else, Dudley had the species before Chester did :P
 
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