Dwarf forest buffalo in the UK

Onagers.

From the map on the 'Africa Alive' thread, the Onagers were in either the existing Somali Ass enclosure(17) or the Buffalo one(18) next door. I saw up to 8 onagers there on several visits in the late 1990's. Not sure where they came from but Marwell went into Somali Ass at about the same time.
 
Okay, that confirms what I thought I'd imagined, when the banham owners took over, I remember wondering if their decision to exhibit Onagers was because there were already some at the Park, or if the Onager(s) present on my first visit was no more and this was just incidental. It looks likely that they could have come from Mawell, though. The question is, did they all die in the space of 10 years or so, or were they moved out of the collection? That's a lot of onagers to get through if the former is true.
 
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