Edinburgh Zoo Edinburgh Zoo News 2021
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Martii
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I do hope it will be a mixed exhibit ?
More info will be released tomorrow, I think the Armadillo's will also be housed their, possibly other species as well.
Scotland’s only sloths have been revealed for the first time at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s Edinburgh Zoo today, Monday 13 September.
Visitors can now spot two Linne’s two-toed sloths in the wildlife conservation charity’s new Sloths and Armadillos building which is opening gradually to help the pair settle in:
Edinburgh Zoo welcomes Scotland’s only sloths | Edinburgh Zoo
Visitors can now spot two Linne’s two-toed sloths in the wildlife conservation charity’s new Sloths and Armadillos building which is opening gradually to help the pair settle in:
Edinburgh Zoo welcomes Scotland’s only sloths | Edinburgh Zoo
This is my first time ever hearing of a zoo having a building specifically for Xenarthrans! That's certainly unique.
Here's an earlier example at Zoo Dortmund: Anteater House - ZooChat
Lovely
Edinburgh Zoo's giant pandas are returning to China: Giant pandas to be returned to China after eight failed pregnancy attempts
Another article that says nothing new, but pretends to be saying a lot
if one actually reads the article, it merely reports on the fact the 10 year lease is coming to a close soon, but never actually says that the Giant Pandas *are* returning to China.... and in fact closes the article with the same quote we discussed a few days ago originating from the Edinburgh Zoo website:‘We remain in discussions with our colleagues in China about Yang Guang and Tian Tian’s future at Edinburgh Zoo as our original ten-year agreement ends in December. We still hope to extend their stay and will keep everyone updated.’
In other words, clickbait based around a re-phrasing of the previously-posted article
Fine Brilliant Birds exhibit is dead but where in the zoo will a new representative bird collection and aviary complex come up?
Since neither are of any use to Chinese breeding programmes, RZSS are probably hope to keep them for nothing or very little expense. They could probably get 5 years plus out of having the UK's only Pandas. Nowhere has the money currently to pay China the usual feeAnother article that says nothing new, but pretends to be saying a lot
‘We remain in discussions with our colleagues in China about Yang Guang and Tian Tian’s future at Edinburgh Zoo as our original ten-year agreement ends in December. We still hope to extend their stay and will keep everyone updated.’
In other words, clickbait based around a re-phrasing of the previously-posted article
I thought Tian Tian could still reproduce?
An endangered red panda kit born at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Edinburgh Zoo in July has been given her first health check and named Ruby:
It’s a girl! Adorable red panda kit named at Edinburgh Zoo | Edinburgh Zoo
It’s a girl! Adorable red panda kit named at Edinburgh Zoo | Edinburgh Zoo
Steven Brown Art has today announced the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as their charity of the year for the next 12 months. The Scottish artist will paint two new works celebrating iconic species from Edinburgh Zoo and Highland Wildlife Park to raise money for the wildlife conservation charity:
Scottish artist Steven Brown to paint new artwork in support of RZSS | Edinburgh Zoo
Scottish artist Steven Brown to paint new artwork in support of RZSS | Edinburgh Zoo
Zoo map has been updated to include the Przewalski's horse and sloths:
https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/media/8756/ez-map_autumn-2021-online.pdf
https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/media/8756/ez-map_autumn-2021-online.pdf
Jambi
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I do wonder if the zoo still plans to go ahead with the other big projects they had planned after the giraffe house, or if the lockdowns have affected them so badly financially that those plans will have to be dropped?
I will definitely miss Brilliant Birds, it was one of my favourite areas of the zoo, and I'm also curious to know what is being done with the species that used to be in there.
Following a hugely popular first series last year, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) will feature in the second series of Inside The Zoo on BBC Scotland this October.
Inside The Zoo will air on BBC Scotland, and across the UK on BBC iPlayer, from Monday 11 October at 8pm:
Returning TV series goes behind the scenes at Edinburgh Zoo and Highland Wildlife Park | Edinburgh Zoo
Inside The Zoo will air on BBC Scotland, and across the UK on BBC iPlayer, from Monday 11 October at 8pm:
Returning TV series goes behind the scenes at Edinburgh Zoo and Highland Wildlife Park | Edinburgh Zoo
I was interested to see photos of all (most of) the European Giant Panda exhibits. Unlike the others with expensive landscaping both indoors and out, by comparison Edinburgh's second Panda enclosure looks simple in the extreme, a bare-looking den and a grassy outdoors surrounded by an electric fence, more reminiscent of where you might house e.g. cheetahs. Presumably this second enclosure is, by necessity, an economy version of the first one.
Martii
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Was one of my fav places at the zoo