Dudley Zoological Gardens Dudley Zoological Gardens in 2016

Nanook said:
The male at Heythrop Dennis must be around the same age ??
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he should be around 31, according to this (assuming it is reliable): BBC One - Our Zoo - Meet the animals
The parts of Adam and Eve are played by Dennis, the Asian black bear. Dennis was born at a British zoo and joined his current home as a small cub in 1985. He had been abandoned by his mother, so had to be hand-raised.
He lives at Heythrop Zoo in a large glass-fornted enclosure with his own personal swimming pool!
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I agree. The old sensory garden was completely pointless the way it was, but it did contain lots of large, rather nice looking, trees. They should have worked around those, kept the shrubs/plants around the border and added a few picnic benches. At least that way it would have been a much more pleasant place to sit instead of what now looks like a car park.

I know they haven't finished yet but it all looks a bit brutal and thoughtless. I really hope they don't continue with this approach on other projects. I like Dudley Zoo for its leafiness.
 
Sorry, Benosaurus … reading remains an art … and this time it got the better off me and I failed to completely let the first sentence sink in. I am - all the same - really glad they have a pure and big enough workable group of Chileans now.
 
West African Dwarf Crocodile

DZG has swapped its female West African Dwarf Crocodile with one held at Zoo des Sables d'Olonnes after discovering that its male and female were different sub-species. Croc swap! | Dudley Zoological Gardens

Personally, I find it a little strange that this article (with its emphasis on ensuring a genetically pure captive population) follows one in which they have merged a flock of 20 pure Chilean flamingoes with 8 hybrids.:confused:
 
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