Jordan-Jaguar97
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A male Chapman's Zebra named Zippy was born recently.
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thats very interesting and its the first I have even heard of this venture. from the time fota opened i regularly visited but lost interest as it began to look dilapidated and really short of species. year after year without any new additions would not encourage me to make a 400 mile round journey.
So I am delighted to hear that they are planning this developement and that the park is looking well.
has anyone any current news on this project as there is nothing on their website.
There has been a second giraffe birth at Fota.
See link: Fota Wildlife Park Announce the Birth of Conan the Giraffe - Fota Wildlife
See link: Fota Wildlife Park Announce the Birth of Conan the Giraffe - Fota Wildlife
Gentle Giant
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The Park saw more than 390,000 people passing through its gates.
Recession a boost to Fota wildlife park in busy year - National News - Independent.ie
Recession a boost to Fota wildlife park in busy year - National News - Independent.ie
That's really impressive numbers for somewhere that's geographically quite remote and (Cork excepted) not near any really big population areas. It must be doing something right.
Stefka
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How does it work so far? I am asking because I wasn´t there for a while, it was just few day after they put the Meerkats and Mangabeys together and the keepers were watching the situation constatly, because the Mangabeys were pretty agressive towards the Meerkats. Did they calm down after some time? Or did they have to separate them?
Its a pretty strange/unnatural mixing, since Meerkats are desert dwelling and Mangabeys rainforest canopy-dwellers, so two species which would never interact naturally. That's not to say it won't necessarily work.
I don't remember seeing any Mongooses in Colchester's Mangabey 'Forest' (so called) though I spent quite a time watching the Monkeys. Maybe a Colchester regular can confirm either way on that though.
The problem with a lot of these so-called 'mixed' exhibits IMO, is that even in the ones using species that do occur in the same natural areas, they represent an artificial situation with animals that never normally meet in the wild(or hardly ever anyway). Canopy-dwelling Monkeys don't see ground dwelling Mongooses etc. So whether it works in much closer confinement in captivity is chance really.
New arrivals
0:1 Red Panda from Dublin to pair with the new* German male they have also recieved following the death of both the previous adults.
*They recieved him sometime ago but his arrival has only just been made public
1:0 Capybara from Twycross
1:0 Scimater Horned Oryx from Marwell
0:1 Red Panda from Dublin to pair with the new* German male they have also recieved following the death of both the previous adults.
*They recieved him sometime ago but his arrival has only just been made public
1:0 Capybara from Twycross
1:0 Scimater Horned Oryx from Marwell
Agile Gibbons have produced there second offsping since arriving at the park
Baby Gibbon in Fota Wildlife Park Needs a Name - Fota Wildlife
Baby Gibbon in Fota Wildlife Park Needs a Name - Fota Wildlife
Jordan-Jaguar97
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Very promising news regarding the Agile Gibbon birth, I think the new pair which produced this one are unrelated to the male at Bristol as he was born at Fota if the baby at Fota is female it maybe worth sending the baby there in a few years and trying Bristol's luck, the female has bred there in the past but no successfully.
is that an Irish joke? I don't understand the witticism.And guess what they called it?
only SHAY GIBBON!, genius.
Stefka
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I guess they named him after the footballer? [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shay_Gibbons]Shay Gibbons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
A few decades ago, London Zoo named its young female giraffes after females sports personalities e.g. Jo after Jo Durie and Virginia after Virginia Wade. One of my ideas was eventually adopted by London Zoo when a female was named Steffi, after Steffi Graf. I don't know if the zoo recognised the joke.
Stefka
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thanks. Soccer isn't something I would know anything about (except elephant soccer of course)
Two Rothschild/Baringo Giraffe calves have been born: The first, a female was born on 21st July to Bláithín (First to be sired by new male, Walda who arrived in 2011) and has just gone on show
The 2nd calf was born this afternoon (10th August) to Sapphire and Fota's other bull Giraffe, Tadgh and is so far unsexed.
Giraffe Calf born in front of visitors at Fota Wildlife Park today - Fota Wildlife Park
The 2nd calf was born this afternoon (10th August) to Sapphire and Fota's other bull Giraffe, Tadgh and is so far unsexed.
Giraffe Calf born in front of visitors at Fota Wildlife Park today - Fota Wildlife Park
The second calf is now confirmed as another female,