Hi Guys,
I just want to say hello , it's my first posting here and so I want to introduce myself.
I'm a zoofan from germany, I love animals and zoos since my earlist childhood and its my pleasure to visit every zoo and aquarium I can. My special interested are hoofed animals, especially all species of antelope, as my nickname says. Unfortunately, duikers are now very rare in zoos, we have here in germany only three diffrent species, the yellowbacked duikers ( unfortunately the only breeding female in europe died that year ),blue duikers ( only one german zoo with this species ) and red duikers, which can be seen now in now 6 german zoos. This is one of the few antelope species, which are not kept in any Us-Zoo.
Because I'm very interested in antelopes, but a lot of diffrent antelope species can not being watched in any european zoo,I made my first trip to the USA in 2002, fortunately, I could visit the Gladys Porter Zoo and I could see the Jentinkduikers and the last Hirola, which lived in a tiny, old and ugly enclosure behind the scenes.
I enjoyed my trip to the States, and my favourite zoo is, no wonder, the San Diego WAP.
Its a great zoo, and so I returned to the States in 2005 to visit this amazing place again.There are so many rare antelope species, which we don't have here in europe, Gerenuk,Soemmerings gazelle, Spekes gazelle, Bontebok, a lot of duikers, royal antelope, Suni, Bushbock,Giant Eland.So the States are my paradise . Next year, I will come back, this time, to the east coast.
Since many years, I collect zoo literature, so I have now a zooguidecollection with 3,245 diffrent zooguidebooks from all over the world.
If anybody here has any questions, please ask. I know so much german zoo( and other zoos in europe, of course), so I hope, I can answer your questions.
Greetings from germany,
zebraduiker
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