Edinburgh Zoo Few Questions?

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Lesley4444

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Just wondered...

1. Is the young female tapir still there? or has she moved on?
2. Is there any sign of the female sumatran tiger moving on? and them getting a new female in for the male?
3. ISIS said there was just one female african painted dog? last time i was there there was definately a male and female? is that still the case?
4. Have the bushdogs had pups recently?
5. When are the chimps due to come over??

thanks for any answers in advance :)
 
If you mean Indah (born September 2008) the Malayan Tapir she left for a zoo in Kent (Most likely one of the Aspinall parks) late last year.

They are still waiting for the studbook Co-ordinator to move either Tigor or Chandra the Sumatran Tigers and assign them a mate for the other. A new individual could come from Paignton Zoo?

Can't help with any of the other questions sorry.
 
Was at the zoo last week and female bush dog look heavily pregnant and was told the new chimps were due to arrive any day now that was last sunday!!!! both tapirs went to kent as far as i know
 
The new chimps are due to arrive on March 18th. The Budongo Trail will be closed for some time after they arrive (possibly weeks) to allow them to settle in.
 
Ohhh noo need my chimp fix ha ha but understandable!!!

Was also told that the female tiger will be moving off i dont know if this is just rumour but we ll have to wait and see!!
 
So does that mean the tigers will moving back into their enclosure imminently, once a new female arrives, and the jags back into the rock dens.
Where a few more enclosures will become freed up, with Tyson going to Howletts and one of the female wolverine moving on, maybe the margays will be moved up here too.
 
the plan is to move the tigers back up to the top of the back dens but if a new one comes will have to go into quarantine and where they are just now would be more suited to this and i agree get the margay along the dens and also my favourite the Binturong back out!!!
 
The chimps are ex-laboratory chimps that were once wild caught and therefore purebred verus. They are currently held as a large group at Safaripark Beekse Bergen in the Netherlands, that group will be split up.
 
Malachi said:
The new chimps are due to arrive on March 18th. The Budongo Trail will be closed for some time after they arrive (possibly weeks) to allow them to settle in.
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Which is the same day as the Volunteer's pre-season social evening (but that's in education) and less than a week before the Members only evening on the 24th so that might need relocated! The lecture theatre is also scheduled to be used for several events during the Science Festival. Still, you never know how the new chimps will settle. They might settle very quickly, they might not!

Certainly after March 18th, all eyes will be on Edinburgh Zoo for what is possibly the first group to group introduction of chimpanzees in captivity. Budongo Trail has to be the best facility to do this!
 
Simon McGlary said:
Certainly after March 18th, all eyes will be on Edinburgh Zoo for what is possibly the first group to group introduction of chimpanzees in captivity. Budongo Trail has to be the best facility to do this!
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When Arnhem Zoo set up their chimpanzee colony back in the 1970's they brought together several 'subgroups' which came from different Zoos. However these were in two's and three's rather thant the 11 & 11 which will meet at Edinburgh.

Monkeyworld also set up large groups using unfamiliar chimps but this was mostly using humanised individual animals and/or youngsters.

I'd be interested to know of anywhere else that has combined big groups of Chimps on the scale that Edinburgh hope to do. It should work okay as the groups will be equal in size.
 
I'm pretty sure there was an IZN article around 12 years ago where two groups of chimps were integrated at Madrid zoo, when a new enclosure was built. The article detailed the use of mild ant-anxiety drugs to allow the animals to become accustomed to eachother. I've no idea what the long-term outcome was, or whether this has been repeated since.
 
johnstoni said:
I'm pretty sure there was an IZN article around 12 years ago where two groups of chimps were integrated at Madrid zoo, when a new enclosure was built. The article detailed the use of mild ant-anxiety drugs to allow the animals to become accustomed to eachother. I've no idea what the long-term outcome was, or whether this has been repeated since.
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Vaguely remember this too. I imagine Edinburgh will give them something to calm them- the initial contacts are likely to be tempestuous though the initial phase of the groups having seeing and hearing contact is likely to dampen that a little. I think having equal numbers of animals in both groups will help too. While the 'new' group will have more adult males(5?) the 'old' group will be on their home ground which again should help balance things out. It will be an interesting time for all (staff included) though.
 
Lesley4444 said:
Just wondered...

1. Is the young female tapir still there? or has she moved on?
2. Is there any sign of the female sumatran tiger moving on? and them getting a new female in for the male?
3. ISIS said there was just one female african painted dog? last time i was there there was definately a male and female? is that still the case?
4. Have the bushdogs had pups recently?
5. When are the chimps due to come over??

thanks for any answers in advance :)
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Lesley, as far as I am aware there are still the two african painted hunting dogs, a male and female
 
Just thought, in some zoos where gorillas have been introduced photographs have been used. Could the video technology used during the course of the Chimpcam project be implemented as a means of the introduction process for the two groups. So much could happen! Exciting times!

One thing it is worth adding is the ringtail lemurs have been split into two groups, possibly ready for them moving on? At the feed and talk time in the morning the blue eyeds have started coming over the bridge. As soon as the hear the microphone come on and the first announcement of the talk they appear. Simple association of talk = food! They are now prevented from getting into the outdoor area until after the talk otherwise the gather more food than they require!
 
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