Chester Zoo Islands in Danger

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CZJimmy

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Just noticed on Zoolex that they have uploaded Islands in Danger. It's a really good presentation as well, better than the last few entries in my opinion.

ZooLex Exhibit
 
CZJimmy said:
Just noticed on Zoolex that they have uploaded Islands in Danger. It's a really good presentation as well, better than the last few entries in my opinion.

ZooLex Exhibit
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Aww, you beat me to it. I was about to post it when I saw this thread.

Anyways, I like this exhibit, and I agree that is one of the better ones than the recent exhibits posted in zoolex.
 
CZJimmy said:
Just noticed on Zoolex that they have uploaded Islands in Danger. It's a really good presentation as well, better than the last few entries in my opinion.

ZooLex Exhibit
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Yes but it would have been so much better if they could have fitted everything they planned to into it but typical Chester it was not to be.
 
zoogiraffe said:
Yes but it would have been so much better if they could have fitted everything they planned to into it but typical Chester it was not to be.
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Yes it is good, but I always thought that the overall exhibit could have been much better. There was so much potential with small Indo-Pacific island species that you felt they ended up making a komodo enclosure (or two) with a couple of aviaries tacked on.
 
zoogiraffe said:
Yes but it would have been so much better if they could have fitted everything they planned to into it but typical Chester it was not to be.
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yeah, I still have the zoo magazine from 1998 with the original plans in them. I'd forgotten how much the plans had changed until i dug out the old magzine.

- A waterfall was meant to crash above visitors heads as they entered.
- The first section was the Philippines (with Sailfin lizards, writhe-billed hornbill, Bleeding heart dove, mount apo lorikeet and sulawesi halfbeaks)
- The komodo section (which doesn't look too different really)
- Mascarene island section (with tomato frog, seychelles millipede, frigate island beetles)
- Papau New Guinea (with Red Bird of Paradise, Rainbow Fish, Blue Crowned Pigeon, Stella Lorikeets, Duivenbode's Lories)
- Caribbean (with Jamaican Boa and St. Lucia Parrots)
 
Yep they marked out the exact size area on the old car park where the current zoo offices are but they found out they couldn`t fit everything in,pity realy because it would have been a superb exhibit.
 
CZJimmy said:
yeah, I still have the zoo magazine from 1998 with the original plans in them. I'd forgotten how much the plans had changed until i dug out the old magzine.

- A waterfall was meant to crash above visitors heads as they entered.
- The first section was the Philippines (with Sailfin lizards, writhe-billed hornbill, Bleeding heart dove, mount apo lorikeet and sulawesi halfbeaks)
- The komodo section (which doesn't look too different really)
- Mascarene island section (with tomato frog, seychelles millipede, frigate island beetles)
- Papau New Guinea (with Red Bird of Paradise, Rainbow Fish, Blue Crowned Pigeon, Stella Lorikeets, Duivenbode's Lories)
- Caribbean (with Jamaican Boa and St. Lucia Parrots)
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was the only probelm the size? or was it too expensive aswell?
 
What other zoos/aquariums have island exhibits?

I can only think of the Louisville Zoo, Oklahoma City Zoo, Bermuda Aquarium, and Chester of course.
 
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okapikpr said:
What other zoos/aquariums have island exhibits?
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Prague zoo, of course. Huge Indonesian hall with komodo dragons, pig-tailed macaques, binturongs, otters, lar gibbons, orangutans, turtles, birds, few small aquariums and night section. Overall design similar to Bronx's Jungle World.
 
Colombus has an Islands area and I guess you could possibly consider Toronto Zoo's Indo-Malaya section?
 
Zoo Boise has a section of it's small animal building devoted to islands inhabitants include aldabra tortoise, ring-tailed lemur, komodo dragon, mantellas, and a couple other small reptiles and insects
 
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