Blackpool Zoo Giraffes to return to Blackpool Zoo!

Marcellus said:
"not sure when the aardvarks arrive or where thay will go."

I believe they are arriving this week and are going into the children's zoo. possibly to the place vacated by the meerkats, therefore no 'nocturnal' exhibit methinks....
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Bloody ridiculous! The meerkat pen was hastily formed by dividing the dwarf zebu stall when they redeveloped the meerkat enclosures for red pandas (a temporary enclosure, nearly 6 years ago!). Maybe Blackpool are going to try and mix the meerkats and aardvarks in a small 'room' in the children's zoo. What a way to display a lovely species.
 
johnstoni said:
Didn't Blackpool have gentoo penguins until about 1993?
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I believe that all the penguins succumbed to the avian malaria outbreak circa 2001(?). If they didn't all die then the rest were sent somewhere else. I believe they were gentoos.
 
kiang said:
i would like to see an exhibit similar to Rheine zoo, a walk through aviary with Humboldt's penguin and Inca tern.
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Black-foots and Inca terns are mixed at Bristol along with other bird species. Penguins (cannot remember species) and terns are mixed at Living Coasts, Torquay, too.
 
tetrapod said:
Black-foots and Inca terns are mixed at Bristol along with other bird species. Penguins (cannot remember species) and terns are mixed at Living Coasts, Torquay, too.
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That is correct but they are not a correct geographical mix, the Humboldt's and Inca tern would be more accurate.
 
kiang said:
That is correct but they are not a correct geographical mix, the Humboldt's and Inca tern would be more accurate.
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Quite agree, though a moot point would be that you are unlikely to see Inca terns in the same habitat as Humboldt's penguins in the wild.
 
tetrapod said:
Quite agree, though a moot point would be that you are unlikely to see Inca terns in the same habitat as Humboldt's penguins in the wild.
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They certainly share the same geographical area of western south America, their habitats may be different, but why not an aviary with a cliff face for the tern and a beach area for the penguin.
Their habitats must overlap in the wild those high cliffs with secluded beaches at the bottom.
 
tetrapod said:
Bloody ridiculous! The meerkat pen was hastily formed by dividing the dwarf zebu stall when they redeveloped the meerkat enclosures for red pandas (a temporary enclosure, nearly 6 years ago!). Maybe Blackpool are going to try and mix the meerkats and aardvarks in a small 'room' in the children's zoo. What a way to display a lovely species.
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The meekats were moved to a new enclosure in the big cats area sometime last year, so i doubt they'll be mixed. However, i do agree that a species like Aardvark deserve special treatment, maybe a reverse lighting exhibit will be developed long term...
 
I've seen photos of wild Humboldt penguins and maras together in the desert. The only zoo in the UK I have ever seen try to recreate the genuine humboldt penguin habitat complete with huge cacti was gatwick zoo, after they got all that dowry money from Windsor safari park when it closed, they built a new penguin exhibit, presumably to house their existing couple of birds plus the windsor ones.
 
tetrapod said:
Black-foots and Inca terns are mixed at Bristol along with other bird species. Penguins (cannot remember species) and terns are mixed at Living Coasts, Torquay, too.
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I went to Living Coasts in May and the Black-footed penguins were housed with young Gentoo Penguins, Inca Terns (they have the whole aviary to live in), Bank Cormorants and Eider Ducks.
 
bongorob said:
I went to Living Coasts in May and the Black-footed penguins were housed with young Gentoo Penguins, Inca Terns (they have the whole aviary to live in), Bank Cormorants and Eider Ducks.
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young gentoo penguins? Does this mean they have gone into keeping this species again?
 
johnstoni said:
I've seen photos of wild Humboldt penguins and maras together in the desert. The only zoo in the UK I have ever seen try to recreate the genuine humboldt penguin habitat complete with huge cacti was gatwick zoo, after they got all that dowry money from Windsor safari park when it closed, they built a new penguin exhibit, presumably to house their existing couple of birds plus the windsor ones.
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Might be wrong but haven't Newquay gone to some lengths to make a realistic exhibit? Love to see a mara/penguin exhibit! Always though Patagonian conure could be used too.
 
tetrapod said:
Might be wrong but haven't Newquay gone to some lengths to make a realistic exhibit? Love to see a mara/penguin exhibit! Always though Patagonian conure could be used too.
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I'd also really like too see mara and penguins sharing, maybe mix in Magellanic or kelp goose?
 
They almost have this at Marwell, only the mara separated behind the penguins by a barrier, and the magellan geese are/were adjacent to them.
 
The giraffeb exibit isnt actually that big with the llamas having a bigger paddock, i herd from a keeper that they want to mix a species of gazzelle with the giraffe and there was ideas of joining the llama paddock with the giraffes to make a mixed exibit of african species.
 
That would be good, the Giraffe paddock looks a bit small from the pictures I've seen.
 
On my visit last Saturday there were 6 giraffes at Blackpool . A group of 3 plus calf were , I assume , the females from Fota with the male calf born last December . A further 2 giraffe were in a separate indoor pen , one being particularly large .

ISIS only lists 4 and there is no mention on the web-site , so I assume the 2 new ones are fairly recent arrivals . Anybody know where they came from ?
 
I went in March and there were 3 females and a calf. They must be very new.
 
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