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Guess the zoo
- Thread starter Norwegian moose
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Bizarrely, it’s Colchester Zoo.
sooty mangabey
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And Tim is correct! Although you're incorrect to use the adverb 'bizarrely' - any seasoned Colchester watcher will know that such things are very much to be expected at this zoo!
Over to you....
Well it seems rather bizarre to me.
Coincidentally, I'm just leaving home to spend the day at Colchester Zoo - not to look at plaques about Johnny Cash - but hopefully to see the newly arrived borensis zebra.
Another question to be posted this evening.
I know this has already been answered but didn't you ask this question at ZooHistorica Sooty?
sooty mangabey
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I know this has already been answered but didn't you ask this question at ZooHistorica Sooty?
May well have done - but until Paignton Zoo erect a memorial statue to Willie Nelson, I'll possibly keep returning to it! It is one of my favourite corners of a British zoo.....
I do think it's highly amusing. Having never been to Colchester (shame on me!) I've never seen this plaque, is there any particular reason for it?
sooty mangabey
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The one for June implies that the Tropeanos were friends with the Cash family - if so, an extraordinary coming together! Johnny did have a pet ostrich, of course - which once injured him quite badly, leading to his becoming hooked on pain killers. And there's a great photo somewhere of Johnny with one of his daughters at the gate to the Memphis Zoo in the 1960s.
Indeed it is, if true then I find myself wondering how this occurred?
Thanks for the extra info, I take it you're a bit of a Johnny Cash fan then?
an ostrich *is* sort of like a chicken in black.....
Next question.
In the middle of the 19th century the Secretary of the Zoological Society of London resigned and left London Zoo to become director of a new zoo.
Sadly he died shortly afterwards and never lived to see the new zoo opened.
What was the new zoo?
In the middle of the 19th century the Secretary of the Zoological Society of London resigned and left London Zoo to become director of a new zoo.
Sadly he died shortly afterwards and never lived to see the new zoo opened.
What was the new zoo?
Quite an easy one this time Tim !
D. W. Mitchell became director of the Jardin d'Acclimation in Paris.
D. W. Mitchell became director of the Jardin d'Acclimation in Paris.
Yes, well done. I thought this one was bit harder....
Thanks Tim ! I've also a quite easy one this time ( if you know the answer ) :
At which zoo it was possible to see the rare Peruvian Huemul ( Hippocamelus antisensis ) during the second part of the 1990-ties ?
) :At which zoo it was possible to see the rare Peruvian Huemul ( Hippocamelus antisensis ) during the second part of the 1990-ties ?
Meilimonkey
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I did a school project on this animal and I heard they kept some at the Lima Zoo in Peru, but I'm not sure if it's in the 1990s.
Congrat. Meilimonkey ! Parque de las Leyendas in Lima recieved a young male during 1995 and he was at least still alive in 1999.
In the period 1969 to 1977 a female of this species was also kept at this zoo.
So now it up to you to provide us with a new question Meilimonkey
In the period 1969 to 1977 a female of this species was also kept at this zoo.
So now it up to you to provide us with a new question Meilimonkey
Meilimonkey
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What zoo briefly had walruses in their pachyderm house in the early 2000s?
Norwegian moose
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Brookfield Zoo?
Meilimonkey
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No, not the Brookfield Zoo.
