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Weird behaviour from the zoo. It's not April Fools!
I mean, it was the zoo itself that was the cause of the misinformation.Which further reinforces the point I made previously about the reliability of ZTL...
...given the fact that this has all directly resulted in misinformation and assumptions being posted to the site in question
ZooNews2024
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Surely April fools jokes are untrue?
I happened to be there last week and saw one of these being unloaded - it looked very real to me!
Also not sure about 'miss-information' as it looks as though the words were accurate and carefully chosen.
My guess would be from looking at the NZ web-site, that these are electric powered and fit very well with Hamerton's power generation from their wind-turbines and solar panels?
It’s one way to get your (not that interesting in terms of non-animal) news spoken about…
A coincidence I'm sure...
Accurate and carefully chosen, but with the aim to mislead... That can't be denied.
ZooNews2024
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What is 'that interesting' would probably vary depending on who is reading it, and zoos often put non-animal stories on their news pages.
Some pictures of zoo vehicles have been posted on the media pages on here too, so their poster(s) must have thought they were interesting enough.
We could open a book on the next shipment which we are promised. I might place a small wager on a motor moa, but I can't imagine a flutter on a kiwi
I remember the Tuatara at Chester in the 1960's. A single individual, it was held in its own little display 'case' somewhere out in the main zoo i.e. not displayed with other reptiles.
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The thing is, taken in isolation without the added context/connotations of the word "Tuatara" this is actually pretty positive news and worth highlighting I reckon, given the fact it demonstrates further commitment by Hamerton to the use of green energy as much as possible.
This is one of the most hilarious things I've seen on this site in a hot minute.
Or even a cold minute.
Or even a cold minute.
I think you mean the little brick box beside the loop at the end of the canal, where the waterbus turned round. That eventually held a pair and a lot of ivy. The house is still there.
I remember seeing a tuatara in the old Reptile House when I was a boy, probably around 1964. It was in a vivarium near the middle of the left hand row, which had a fan installed above the window to keep it cooler than the others. The entrance to that house was situated where the kiosk between the penguins and the giant otters is now. It was demolished after the reptiles were moved when the Tropical House was completed.
But only really if they tell us about the commitment to the use of green energy. The post doesn’t really say anything apart from sending Zoo Chat into a frenzy… Seems like they knew what they were doing
Lafone
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Fun day out at Hamerton today. It was damp and cold but there were a good number of visitors and lots of activity animal wise.
Disinfectant mats were in place, assume to do with the Bird Flu restrictions.
Lots of Red Kites as usual, this time active in stealing chicks from the wild Herons in the White Stork enclosure. The Storks looked on.
Enjoyed seeing the young otters out and about having some fish with their parents and got some great views of the Canadian Lynx who were all out and about.
Lots of noisy mating activity going on between the Ruppell's griffon vultures. Nearly as loud as the gibbons!
The flamingos were inside, probably the cold weather vs bird flu restrictions as the other open top birds were out.
A Mangrove snake is back in the exhibit at the rear right of the Reptile house. Looks quite large and was offering an excellent view draped over the branches and staring straight out.
The Greater Grison are now signed in two enclosures, the one they are usually in on the right of the sloth house and now the other on the left. Where the Sumatran civets had two spaces (the right one having been Jaguarundi for a while) they are now signed in the left one and the Grison the right. Saw one Grison in the enclosure on the right hand side of the Sloths but don't know if this new signing is a separation of the existing ones or they have more etc.
There were two cheetahs in the front enclosure near the foxes, both making a lot of noise against their partition and running about / hunkering together. Both looked younger so not sure if the remaining cubs have been seperated from mother Jetts after the other two moved on.
Disinfectant mats were in place, assume to do with the Bird Flu restrictions.
Lots of Red Kites as usual, this time active in stealing chicks from the wild Herons in the White Stork enclosure. The Storks looked on.
Enjoyed seeing the young otters out and about having some fish with their parents and got some great views of the Canadian Lynx who were all out and about.
Lots of noisy mating activity going on between the Ruppell's griffon vultures. Nearly as loud as the gibbons!
The flamingos were inside, probably the cold weather vs bird flu restrictions as the other open top birds were out.
A Mangrove snake is back in the exhibit at the rear right of the Reptile house. Looks quite large and was offering an excellent view draped over the branches and staring straight out.
The Greater Grison are now signed in two enclosures, the one they are usually in on the right of the sloth house and now the other on the left. Where the Sumatran civets had two spaces (the right one having been Jaguarundi for a while) they are now signed in the left one and the Grison the right. Saw one Grison in the enclosure on the right hand side of the Sloths but don't know if this new signing is a separation of the existing ones or they have more etc.
There were two cheetahs in the front enclosure near the foxes, both making a lot of noise against their partition and running about / hunkering together. Both looked younger so not sure if the remaining cubs have been seperated from mother Jetts after the other two moved on.
@MikeG, thanks for highlighting and it got a few Zoochat posters flustered and off-road here!
BTW: The hybrid vehicles are certainly quite cool and exude the notion of sustainable energy transport! Really neat looking too!!!
NOTA BENE:
I would say that New Zealand is very careful about where their taonga will go outside the country and to what benefit! Given that the species requires specially climate controlled environment to enable a zoo to successfully maintain let alone eventually breed - the species takes a little time to reach sexual maturity of course - the country and the Kiwi iwis remain fairly conservative who would be suitable as a facility to house them overseas.
Even now, the tuatara presently outside New Zealand can be counter by the handfull of collections. Do Hamerton have that standing ...., well ... it sure is a nice place from the zoological perspective .. but fitting for true live tuatara . Mmmm, I think not!
cornu aspersum
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It is a female: Log in or sign up to viewAnother wombat has been born at the zoo - the third successful breeding at Hamerton
What are the stats like for the Tassie wombats at Hamerton and where the program is at in Europe now?
(Both their breeding animals as well as their offspring and where these are now.)!
Baringogiraffe12
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They've bred three times successfully, the first offspring is now at Zoo Duisburg, the other two are still at Hamerton.