Japanese Macaques in UK zoos?
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AFAIK they are the only ones in UK and this is a species not seen in any UK other collection in the last fifty years.
i'm suprised that there hasn't been any young yet especially in such a nice looking enclosure. anyone know why???
Gigit
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AFAIK? uwot? o......icwum
I always put that in if I'm not 100% sure on a statement I've made.
but I am pretty certain about the Macaques. The first Japanese macaques I ever saw were in a public park in Launceston, Tasmania, of all places. Yet the quite similar Asian Stump-tailed Macaque used to be a common UK zoo species in the 'old days' but oddly is quite a rarity now.
Species of macaques in UK zoos.
The two Macaque species commonest to see nowadays are the Lion -tailed Macaque(Chester, Colchester, Bristol, Howletts, Belfast and Fota) and the almost ubiquitous Sulawesi Macaque, which nowadays can be found in many collections large and small alike.
The two Macaque species commonest to see nowadays are the Lion -tailed Macaque(Chester, Colchester, Bristol, Howletts, Belfast and Fota) and the almost ubiquitous Sulawesi Macaque, which nowadays can be found in many collections large and small alike.
In terms of sheer numbers, I think Barbary macaques are well up the list too, with a big group at Edinburgh and a very big one at Trentham. ISIS says there are some at Woburn too.
I think there is room for more in the UK at the moment. I remember the group of pig-tailed macaques in the Sobell pavilions, and I'd love to see Moor macaques again (I think I saw them at Belle Vue).
Alan
I think there is room for more in the UK at the moment. I remember the group of pig-tailed macaques in the Sobell pavilions, and I'd love to see Moor macaques again (I think I saw them at Belle Vue).
Alan
There were indeed Moor Macaques at Belle Vue and I remember them too.
In the old Monkey House at ZSL there were about five (2.3)Pigtails which were the founders of the Sobell group. There was also a pair of Assamese Macaque.
Does Edinburgh still have any Stump-tailed(Bear) Macaques and are there any elsewhere in Uk that you know of? (a typical species to slip through the ISIS net)
Of course- I forgot about them.
I think there were about 18 originally but some have died off due to old age etc. I wonder if anywhere else still has them- once they were a typical zoo inmate.i knew they had rhesus but never knew drayton had pig tailed, i went there 2 years ago and musn't of realised (didn't have a camera and my memory is a bit foggy). I've seen pig tails and i didn't even know it. i wondered for along time what species were next to the rhesus.
where did the stump tails at edinburgh move too?
there are also crab eating macaque at curraghs wildlife park
zoogiraffe
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Shepreth Wildlife Park has Crab-eating Macaques as well,and Gentleshaws has a couple of Rhesus Macaques.Edinburghs Stump-tailed Macaques died due to old age.
