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Stefka

Stefka

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Hello everyone,
I´ve just realized that I started to post in forums without introducing myself.

First I would like to tell you how happy I am that I discovered this website. I ran into it by accident and I am so glad I did! Looks like here is a lot of people with wide experiences and I found lots of interesting thoughts and ideas here.

Ok, about me. I come from Czech republic but I live in Dublin, Ireland. I started to study Wildlife Management at ACS recently and that made me go to the zoo even more often. And I can´t get enough of it :)

My favourite animal? That´s a tough one... There are so many of them! But I do love foxes very much, for their inteligence and incredible adaptability.

My best zoo experience? Probably Tierfreigelände in Neuschönau, Germany. The enclosures were huge and very natural, it was really more like walking through the forest and watching wild animals.

I don´t own any animals but my garden is quite "wildlife friendly" so I am watching birds at my birdfeeder every day and a hedgehog is sniffing around my garden every night. I love visiting the zoos but no zoo can compete with that! :)

I am happy to become a part of this community and looking forward to read all your news, thoughts and ideas.

Stefka
 
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Welcome welcome Stefka :O) you're right native british wildlife is great fun to watch once you get to see them!
 
Shirokuma said:
Although it's pretty hard to see them from Dublin ;)
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The British Isles

The expression "British Isles" is geographical and not political. They are a group of islands off the northwest coast of Europe consisting of Great Britain, the whole of Ireland, the Orkney and Shetland Islands, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Isle of Wight, the Scilly Islands, Lundy Island, the Channel Islands and many other smaller islands. A list of the main islands of Great Britain is to be found on another page on this site.

Source:*GREAT BRITAIN THE BRITISH ISLES THE UNITED KINGDOM BRITISH ISLANDS

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mazfc said:
The expression "British Isles" is geographical and not political
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That might be the case in that it doesn't mean a political entity but the word certainly is far from being free of political disputes. See this [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute"]British Isles Naming Dispute[/ame] but anyway, apart from the term British Isles used in a purely geographical context, the word British never includes Ireland (as in the Republic). You might see some species also found in Britain in Ireland but you don't see British wildlife, you see Irish wildlife. Sorry if it sounds pedantic but I'm Irish.

EDIT: sorry, the url is coming up in a wierd way...

Anyway, welcome to the forums Stefka, hopefully we'll hear lots more about Dublin Zoo.
 
I don´t really care about the Irish x British thing... I´m Czech :-)

Anyway, "Irish Wildlife" phrase is usually used here. And British wildlife would include animals not living in Ireland, like snakes for example...

But Irish or British, I like to watch them all ;-)
 
BTW... Irish Whale and Dolphin Group had an interesting talk in Drogheda in September. The title was "The Search for Irish Humpback Whales" .

The speaker, Conor Ryan, explained everything at the beginnig.
He said that, of course, Humpback Whales are the same everywhere, but they like to call this pod - pod which can sometimes be seen off the coast of Ireland - the Irish Humpback Whales... And you know why? Because it attracts the sponsors :p
 
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