Given the fact the male doesn't even have his plums anymore, and they are relying on IVF from various sources, they technically don't even need him
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Given the fact the male doesn't even have his plums anymore, and they are relying on IVF from various sources, they technically don't even need him
Highly unlikely as if I remember rightly the male had to be castrated due to health problems
He could return to China happily and they could 1) open the whole complex to her, 2) replace him with a new male or 3) use his enclosure for something like new red panda, goral or another chinese species. Maybe they could knock down the fences and allow the zebra back into the area but Edinburgh seems to be either going out of Grevy's zebra or moving them over to the giraffe enclosure
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Does anyone know roughly for how long the red fronted macaws have been in the aviary style enclosure they currently occupy at Edinburgh ?
I remember visiting the zoo in the early 2000's ( would have been in 2004) and seeing what I thought at the time was a very talkative "Catalina" hybrid macaw in this enclosure but I am wondering now if this was actually a red fronted macaw.
I remember visiting the zoo in the early 2000's ( would have been in 2004) and seeing what I thought at the time was a very talkative "Catalina" hybrid macaw in this enclosure but I am wondering now if this was actually a red fronted macaw.
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Thank you for this information @Dylan !
I think it would have been the older male that I saw, if I remember rightly he was on his own at that time.
I was much younger then and didn't have the knowledge I have now about wildlife which is why I must have assumed he was a "Catalina" / hybrid.
Great to know he is still alive !
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A joey has been born to Kalari and Tanami. Unfortunately due to level 4 restricitions, Koala territory is closed. Is Tanami the male that arrived from Duisburg?
A joey has been born to Kalari and Tanami. Unfortunately due to level 4 restricitions, Koala territory is closed. Is Tanami the male that arrived from Duisburg?
Ollie Jones
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So I've only visited Edinburgh zoo twice, once a school trip in 2017 and this year after lock down, I was very intrigued so have read through the forums for the zoo since 2012. Was very interested by big cat row, and was wondering if there was a plan or even a notion to bring in any cat or carnivore species back too the zoo.
So far, the big cat row has been turned into a 'wildlife garden' which is code for abandoned. There are some signs about local wildlife placed around but mostly they have just filled with weeds. I have heard nothing about what will happen to them. I had hoped for them to turn it into a small carnivore row for things such as red panda, binturong, margay etc... but that doesn't look like it will happen
It's a shame that Edinburgh's plans with the pandas never came to fruition, but to be honest this is far from the worst news. If it means the zoo can actually survive the pandemic and begin to build up a decent collection again, then the pandas should leave in my opinion.
It’s a difficult one, I feel like they’ve become the big attraction at Edinburgh and they’ve modelled a lot of their advertising around them, I just feel like if a baby was born it would be such a boost for them but after 10 years (and the male’s loss of testacles) I can’t see that happening, it would be a shame for them to go because they’ve become such a staple of Edinburgh (not to mention my personal attachment to yang guang
) but I think it would be good in the long run
Keeping up with the native theme I've always had the thought that it would be nice for a native/exasperated animals to Scotland row of exhibits. The wildcats, and add pine martens, wolverine/badger, eurasian eagle owl, maybe a eurasian lynx at a stretch, but I doubt it. I heard anecdotally a couple years ago that the plans for it were to be completely demolished and turned into a walkthrough aviary for macaws, but who knows at this point.
A real Scots glen in Edinburgh ... it would be a great crowd puller would it not! Add otter, beaver and perhaps wolf too.
Its a nice idea but several of the species would be invisible a lot of the time...eurasian otter, badger and beaver in particular are notorious as daytime 'no shows'- probably pine marten and wildcat only slightly better...
I can testify to several European doing that just fine and quite creatively. Gaiapark, Planckendael (before the overhaul of the European part), Osnabrueck (even hamster) can be exhibited just fine and give the general public a view to the wilderness around and greenfields close to Edinburgh town.
Second, we need more captive collections telling the story of the resurgence of European wildlife and habitats in relation to Rewilding (otter, beaver, lynx, wolf, vultures, ibex).
Not to mention quite a few more around France, Germany, Spain and Czech Republic.
Andrew Swales
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I very much doubt it...
If they need a replacement with any of the crowd pulling properties of the Pandas, then a nice pair of White Tigers is the only real choice....
I think the giraffes will suffice for crowd-pullers rather than bringing in white tigers, animals with absolutely no conservation value, never mind the fact that they already have a pair of tigers in the park.
Honestly if I were to ‘replace’ the pandas with anything ‘crowd-pulling’, I think with just a couple adjustments, their existing habitat wouldn’t be adverse to a couple of gorillas (Though it might suffer in comparison to Budongo)
Honestly if I were to ‘replace’ the pandas with anything ‘crowd-pulling’, I think with just a couple adjustments, their existing habitat wouldn’t be adverse to a couple of gorillas (Though it might suffer in comparison to Budongo)