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Kifaru Bwana said:
A most welcome addition to the EEP. In all rumors are about 5 animals are due in to re-enforce the European program!

MikeG is right on the herps. But it remains so that as a surrogate species along the St. Lucias it will be a good thing conservation model breeding wise.

Lotte of the herp team left? Where?
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We have another due in, a female from Japan. Paperwork is apparently a nightmare.

Lotte is a teacher these days, I believe. Sorely missed.
 
Rick J said:
Actually, Zoochat got the 'Official Announcement' first, as I run the Facebook page (and most other comms channels) :D
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I've found a video you might want to link to on the Facebook page, by the by; coverage of when your new Aye-Aye Pan was born - only the second successful birth in the USA, I have since learned.

 
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I've found a video you might want to link to on the Facebook page, by the by; coverage of when your new Aye-Aye Pan was born - only the second successful birth in the USA, I have since learned.
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The 2nd successful Aye-Aye birth in the US occurred in 1992 at Duke University.
 
Not sure how Denver Zoo got it that wrong, then :p presumably meant in a US zoo, rather than in the USA full-stop, as on reflection it is obvious that Duke has long since been breeding them!
 
'Ours' actually belong to Duke (as does the female headed our way next year), as they've very kindly offered to support the EEP in any way they can. One of our keepers made something of a pilgrimage there last year, said that the place and people at the lemur centre are simply amazing (not to mention the animals).
 
Thanks for the video, BTW, great stuff! Have you ever seen the x-rays of Patrice – one of our old, wild-caught boys? He had survived for decades full of lead air-gun pellets, until one day the vet team x-rayed him for a suspected fracture and discovered them.
 
as DDCorvus says, it was at the breeding centre at Antsohihy in Madagascar. Press releases say something along the lines of "at Durrell's Antsohihy facility" (e.g. that was from Zooborns), so lowland anoa's mistake is in this case understandable.

Lowland anoa, if you put links with your news it will enable other posters to read further on the story and judge the accuracy
 
No Madagascar pochards at Durrell Wildlife Park, I'm afraid. More hatchlings at Antsohihy, though, and these are being reared by their parents. There is a serious amount of work scheduled in Madagascar, to restore Lac Alaotra to a condition where pochards can thrive. Currently, ducklings aren't surviving to fledging due to the depth and temperature of the lakes they are clinging on in.

A brief update for you; we've had two sets of pied tamarin twins born since Christmas, all are doing well, and 'Egg's' babies are coming off the adults and venturing out into the ranges.



The white-winged ducks came out of quarantine today, and are in the Park now... they are beautiful!

Bahia and Quechua (Andean bears) have been mating, and we've built a cubbing den complete with remote monitoring HD cameras and recording equipment. Bahia has been trained to present her belly so that her keepers can ultrasound scan her... and we've had to consult the Smithsonian for examples of bears in utero, so that we have an idea what we're seeing.

We're negotiating hard to get some new black lion tamarins into the collection for genetic health reasons.

Red river hogs have left the collection. Greater flamingos are leaving the collection. The South American birds formerly in the cloud forest have left the collection.

Sadly, Zazkaley the aye-aye died earlier in the year. She was elderly, although we are yet to determine the lifespan of an aye-aye, and she was wild caught in the 1970's (by Gerald and Lee).

The macaques have a new climbing frame, similar to the gorillas' in design and materials.

Red-billed chough nesting boxes are being fixed around Jersey's coastline, to hopefully encourage the first 'wild' chough hatchlings in Jersey this century. The choughs at the Park are nesting, too.

If there's any other Wildlife Park news as the summer season dawns, I'l try and relay it here. :)
 
Rick J said:
Sadly, Zazkaley the aye-aye died earlier in the year. She was elderly, although we are yet to determine the lifespan of an aye-aye, and she was wild caught in the 1970's (by Gerald and Lee).
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I think you have got your decades mixed as Gerald and Lee Durrell,went out to Madagascar in the 1990's not the 1970's!!!
 
I'm sure this has been said by others before, but I'd just like to thank Rick J for being on Zoochat! It is great when a zoo has an official presence on the site to relate information (especially when it is a zoo as respected as Jersey). It is very much appreciated.
 
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