Help please! Primate holdings/enclosure info required.

zoogiraffe said:
Blackpools Orangs are currently off-show at Chester Zoo!
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They were out and about a few weeks ago. I was walking passed the old Orang house (it always looks so small to as I remember it as a youngster!)and noticed one on top of the old climbing frame, I then squinted through the fence and saw three or four more of them outside on the grass carrying sack material about and generally looking pretty relaxed with their temporary home. I hope it will be beneficial to them all moving to Chester for a while and then back to Blackpool again to a new house, one day.
 
Pertinax said:
Gorillas at Longleat.;)

Chimps at Colwyn Bay and the Cerfyn Sanctuary place?
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Chimps at Colwyn Bay are partly behind glass. If by Cerwyn, you mean Cefn-yr-erw, i seem to recall being able to see into their indoor enclosure, so that would be glass too.

Howletts? I don't recall them being even partly behind glass.
 
Pootle said:
They were out and about a few weeks ago. I was walking passed the old Orang house (it always looks so small to as I remember it as a youngster!)and noticed one on top of the old climbing frame, I then squinted through the fence and saw three or four more of them outside
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It maybe a technicality but peering over/through fences doesn't count as 'on show', :) Martha was having a stare-off with one from the top of RotRA last time I was there.

Don't think Edinburgh's chimps behind glass has been mentioned.

It's amazing how keen people are to display their knowledge even when someone just drops in, doesn't introduce themself, wants their coursework done and might not even bother to come and look at the answer.
 
I have not been to Flamingo Land since May (I hope to get there this week), but its website says the Lemur exhibit is now a walk-through -I do know that had been the plan. Of course the Lemur exhibit incorporates the artificial rockwork hill that used to be the Baboon exhibit. The current Baboon Island has strategically placed genuine boulders, albeit sculpted ones.
 
Johnny Morris. said:
Chimps at Colwyn Bay are partly behind glass. If by Cerwyn, you mean Cefn-yr-erw, i seem to recall being able to see into their indoor enclosure, so that would be glass too.

Howletts? I don't recall them being even partly behind glass.
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Thanks for confirming re: Colwyn Bay & Cefn-yr-erw.
I think from those i've seen, Howletts probably has the least glass, apart from a few small viewing 'windows'. You probably wouldn't describe that as displayed behind glass.
 
Johnny Morris. said:
Howletts? I don't recall them being even partly behind glass.
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Some of the indoor enclosures have, admittedly very small, viewing windows, and window panels have been added to small areas of the newer outdoor enclosures near the entrance, but its true they aren't really viewed behind glass..

The older male quarters at Port Lympne have little or no glass either, but the more recent 'Palace of the Apes' has big viewing windows in both covered and outdoor areas, so that one they are viewed essentially through glass.
 
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