Hamerton Zoo Park Hamerton News 2022
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littleRedPanda
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@Moorhunhe that's the Corsac foxes
They really morph into very different looking little foxes - I've popped some of my Hamerton Corsac fox photos here to show you the difference. During their transition they can look very scraggy particularly in the spring as they loose their winter coats, they are fantastic to watch, I love them!
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Hamerton Zoo have now publicly announced the importation of a trio of Lesser Spot-nosed Guenons from Metro Richmond Zoo, USA. The monkeys have now moved into the main part of the zoo: Hamerton Zoo Park - Animal Park Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Awesome news!
They look awesome I am surprised other UK Zoos have not displayed them!
Awesome!! Now that the guenons are officially announced I would like to bring up the question I asked some time ago when the guenons were first being discussed:
Lafone
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Excellent..look forward to seeing them this weekend!
JurassicMax
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Recently multiple Eurasian harvest mice (Micromys minutus) were born.
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Instagram of Hamerton Zoopark (23/09/2022)
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Instagram of Hamerton Zoopark (23/09/2022)
Lafone
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Had a lovely day at Hamerton today - was mostly dry and not too cold so loads of animal activity. Quite a few visitors.
First actually saw a whole ring tailed possum! Rather than the back end of one. That’s one possum off the list.
The guenons are awesome - very active all day so easy to see and then to watch while they played and spent time in both enclosures - even when one was in the rear area the others were at the front. First sighting of these for me and just lovely. A real treat to have these rare species in the U.K.
Got some lovely views of the camomistle at feeding time as well as the skunk - a rare double for me.
The corsac foxes are starting to turn their coats - the changing of the seasons is really upon us!
A clutch of Scarlet ibis and Curassow eggs were cooking away in the incubators and was good to see the young curassow and Argus pheasant chick doing so well in the nursery. The young turaco was also out and about in its aviary.
Elusive possum status: golden elusive.
First actually saw a whole ring tailed possum! Rather than the back end of one. That’s one possum off the list.
The guenons are awesome - very active all day so easy to see and then to watch while they played and spent time in both enclosures - even when one was in the rear area the others were at the front. First sighting of these for me and just lovely. A real treat to have these rare species in the U.K.
Got some lovely views of the camomistle at feeding time as well as the skunk - a rare double for me.
The corsac foxes are starting to turn their coats - the changing of the seasons is really upon us!
A clutch of Scarlet ibis and Curassow eggs were cooking away in the incubators and was good to see the young curassow and Argus pheasant chick doing so well in the nursery. The young turaco was also out and about in its aviary.
Elusive possum status: golden elusive.
Lafone
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Some sad news from Hamerton on their Facebook page that Malang the Binturong has died - she’s produced some great cubs in the past and they have a great record with these lovely animals - a sad time for the zoo and her keepers.
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Even more sad news this morning, they have just announced that Tanzi, the female Canadian Lynx has also passed away. Not been a good year.
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Lafone
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That's sad, what a shame. Must be a hard time for the keepers and the zoo, what a grim week for them.
There have been some very sad losses for Hamerton recently but I don't think it makes it a bad year overall given all the new arrivals, successful births, new developments.
I guess part of running a successful zoo is the cycle of the animals dying as well as arriving and I have to say I admire zoo keepers and owners for managing that so well.
Lafone
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Had a lovely day at Hamerton today - weather forecast was cloudy but instead it was sunny and warm enough to bring lots of animals out which was excellent.
The young cassowary has made the move into the cassowary paddock next to the stork on the way to the vultures, though it looked as if it was not allowed in all of the space yet. How nice to see it from a chick to getting to an adult enclosure. The young birds in the nursery area are growing well.
The new tortoise house is coming along well with front now on (phone pic attached) and there was some work also going on in the enclosures next to the anteater.
Having said I hadn’t seen the new infant red bellied tamarin it was then very visible! Cool stuff. Saw the binturong in the old otter enclosure which was nice.
The guenon were great to watch again - such an active species to have. Got to see the skunk and camomistle just before closing again which was great.
Elusive possum status - elusive!
The young cassowary has made the move into the cassowary paddock next to the stork on the way to the vultures, though it looked as if it was not allowed in all of the space yet. How nice to see it from a chick to getting to an adult enclosure. The young birds in the nursery area are growing well.
The new tortoise house is coming along well with front now on (phone pic attached) and there was some work also going on in the enclosures next to the anteater.
Having said I hadn’t seen the new infant red bellied tamarin it was then very visible! Cool stuff. Saw the binturong in the old otter enclosure which was nice.
The guenon were great to watch again - such an active species to have. Got to see the skunk and camomistle just before closing again which was great.
Elusive possum status - elusive!
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Moorhunhe
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We were there today!
Got there slightly early, around 9.30 and left around 3pm.
Saw the Lynx a couple of times in different spots.
The Corsac Foxes now all look poofy and floofy, hehe.
Jaguarundi was in and out quite a bit, I finally managed to get a half decent photo.
And the Tigers got given a big sack (with catnip?), which was nice to see them react too.
And also we, did not see the possums.
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Recent visit noticed that the new tortoise house is coming on nicely and work on the new meerkat enclosure is also progressing well. Other works of note, new living house for the coatis and a new house in the otter enclosure with a viewing window.