Five Sisters Zoo Park Five Sisters News 2020

[Quincey]

Sad news to start the thread with, Brown Bear, Carmen, has been PTS:

Security Check Required

 

[Quincey]

The zoo have rescued 113 red-footed tortoises and are giving people the chance to adopt and name them for £30 each:

Five Sisters Zoo

 

[Dylan]

That's a brave move, especially with the current health crisis. But I admire nonetheless and hope all 113 pull through. Within an hour, they seem to have raised the needed money as all torts have been named

 

[FBBird]

Whatever does one DO with a hundred and eleven tortoises?

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Whatever does one DO with a hundred and eleven tortoises?

Have a very slow chariot race.

 

[FBBird]

Have a very slow chariot race.

Or, maybe find a few people who want some.....

 

[TNT]

Or, maybe find a few people who want some.....

According to the FB post, that's the long term plan

 

[lowland anoa]

Have a very slow chariot race.

Or more quickly, tie a piece of lettuce to a stick and stick the stick
on the tortoise, and you’ve got yourself the tortoise version of greyhound racing.

 

[Quincey]

0.0.2 red bellied tamarins have been born:

Five Sisters Zoo

 

[Quincey]

0.0.1 Scottish Wildcat kitten has been born:

Five Sisters Zoo

 

[Quincey]

Brown Bear Suzy has been PTS:

Five Sisters Zoo

 

[Embu]

Sad news announced in the last hour

Brown bear Suzy was put down last night after a couple weeks of deteriorating health. A malignant tumour was discovered. This leaves them with 0:1 Eso

 

[Embu]

Apologies Quincey, I was just slightly slow at posting

 

[Dylan]

I believe Eso is a male, from the pair of males from Albania

 

[Embu]

FSZ just giving page has finished and although they didn't manage to hit their target of £100,000 they did raise £73,237!!!!

Hopefully they will survive the winter and have successful 2021

 

[TNT]

FSZ just giving page has finished and although they didn't manage to hit their target of £100,000 they did raise £73,237!!!!

Hopefully they will survive the winter and have successful 2021

Good on them! For a small/medium sized zoo (in Scotland too), this is a great figure!

 

[Zoofan15]

0.0.1 Scottish Wildcat kitten has been born:

Five Sisters Zoo

This kitten born in April was a male, and was named Harris.

Two more Scottish wildcat kittens (also male) were born in September and have been named Arran and Jura.

Five Sisters Zoo gives update on adorable Wildcat kittens and reveals names

 

[Quincey]

0.1 Gray mouse lemur has been born:

Log into Facebook | Facebook

 

[vogelcommando]

Triplet Red-bellied tamarins born at Five Sisters .

 

[Dylan]

On FB, Brian and Shirley have posted that a new area of land has been acquired by the zoo. This area will house new tapir, emu and capybara facilities, new rescue facilites, red panda and penguin enclosures

Log into Facebook