Chester Zoo Komodo Dragon's

[Jordan-Jaguar97]

Hi All,
I know that Chester have had good breeding success with their Komodo Dragon's how many do they currently have?The male Norman has died is their a new male coming in for him?
Regards Jordan.

 

[Maisie]

Why not try a search of the forums, or even a quick look around the zoo's website which (for once) actually has some information on the animals in question? Approximately 1 minute of browsing brought up this:

Chester Zoo - Komodo Dragon

 

[Baldur]

Hi All,
I know that Chester have had good breeding success with their Komodo Dragon's how many do they currently have?The male Norman has died is their a new male coming in for him?
Regards Jordan.

I've been known for giving younger members advise on 'do's and don't's' on Zoochat in the past, so here goes:

You should use this forum as a last resort for information unavailable from anywhere else, or at least hard to find. This is the Information Age and most zoos update the news sections of their websites frequently. Kids your age are almost all fluent with the use of Internet; while I had barely touched a computer before the age of 15!

Most of us here are older than you and busy with school and work, so in the end your threads will simply be ignored, regardless of the content. While we like to be of help to fellow Zoochatters, replacing independent thinking and information search is not something any of us wants to do.

I know you're young, but animals are born and they die too. Both are as natural. Provided there is nothing suspicious or odd about their death, I would say it's nothing that calls for the 'sorrow' sign, really.

 

[zoogiraffe]

I've been known for giving younger members advise on 'do's and don't's' on Zoochat in the past, so here goes:

You should use this forum as a last resort for information unavailable from anywhere else, or at least hard to find. This is the Information Age and most zoos update the news sections of their websites frequently. Kids your age are almost all fluent with the use of Internet; while I had barely touched a computer before the age of 15!

Most of us here are older than you and busy with school and work, so in the end your threads will simply be ignored, regardless of the content. While we like to be of help to fellow Zoochatters, replacing independent thinking and information search is not something any of us wants to do.

I know you're young, but animals are born and they die too. Both are as natural. Provided there is nothing suspicious or odd about their death, I would say it's nothing that calls for the 'sorrow' sign, really.

Well said!!

 

[lechweoryx]

I've never seen so many threads created in such a short amount of time!

 

[Indlovu]

Hi All,
I know that Chester have had good breeding success with their Komodo Dragon's how many do they currently have?The male Norman has died is their a new male coming in for him?
Regards Jordan.

They Currently have:
Flora (F) - famous for the 'mother and father in one' incident. I don't think she's had any young at Chester apart from that.
Trooper (M) - new breeding male, arrived earlier this year.
Ogrod (M) - Son of Flora, will probably move on fairly soon if not already.

Past ones that I know of:
Nessie (F) - Never bred at Chester that I know of, moved to Scandinavia (?) a couple of years ago.
Norman (M) - ex-breeding male that I believe never bred. Died early this year.

 

[mazfc]

I don't want to discourage anyone from asking questions or posting, but Baldurs given some really good advice on prioritising what you do post.

 

[OrangePerson]

I don't want to discourage anyone from asking questions or posting, but Baldurs given some really good advice on prioritising what you do post.

And the 'research skills' can only be beneficial in the long run!

 

[Baldur]

Jordan, I have an idea for you that can suit everyone. You'll have just one thread (entitled "Jordan's questions" or whatever) where you can post your questions. That way, those who don't mind spending time answering them and are happy to educate and assist can answer them here, while those who do mind don't have to set one mouse click into that thread.

Jordan, it's not that I don't want to educate and assist; more that this is supposed to be a serious discussion forum for more advanced information and opinion; while many of the things you ask about are recent zoo news available within a few mouse clicks. What you'll often find is that, even if the news section of the respective zoo website won't give it to you straight away, a quick search on Google normally will. You should practise using Google; it can only benefit you in the long run, including when you enter the job market.

 

[Panthera Puss]

this is supposed to be a serious discussion forum for more advanced information and opinion

Sorry, but that's horse**** There's plenty of room for advanced serious discussion but mostly it's a fans' forum, IMO.

And who elected you Captain Bring-Down?

 

[Baldur]

Sorry, but that's horse**** There's plenty of room for advanced serious discussion but mostly it's a fans' forum, IMO.

And who elected you Captain Bring-Down?

A serious fan, regardless of what, will try everything in his power to seek out information before asking others. Serious discussion and research is what REAL fans do.

Let us say you're a football team fan and you missed a game. How do you know how the game went? You check online news, Google or watch the game re-run online and you know the results within seconds (this is 2010). What you don't do is to log into any of the soccer/sports forums and ask how the game went. Most responses will be "Watch the b****y game!" (sports fans being more emotional than zoo enthusiasts; the move of a player between teams being a hotter topic than the move of a zebra from Marwell to Blackpool! )

A new, young fan of the Beatles will not invade one of many forums and start asking questions about when the band started and stopped, etc. A new serious fan will start by buying 2-3 of the 4619 books available at present on Amazon about the band and do his/her own research.

Captain Bring-Down? I'll take this as an attempt of humour, even if a slightly odd one.

I'm a young zoo-enthusiast myself (29) who didn't know any others when growing up. When I finally got into the community of British and European zoo enthusiasts after 20, it was like a dream but I made a lot of social mistakes. Some made me aware of them, others took it silently. Looking back at the past decade or so, I'm more grateful to those who said something than to those who didn't. I feel like a more proper member as a result. Young Jordan has the chance to start gaining similar-minded friends much sooner than I had a chance to; and I'd rather not see him make the same mistakes as I did. BTW This post has been more honest than had been planned.

 

[Gary]

Can I just add, you don't need apostrophes when you are pluralising something?

Therefore your threads should read 'Komodo Dragons?' Not 'Komodo Dragon's'-that indicates you are asking a questions about something possessed by a Komodo Dragon.

A small and possibly pedantic point but you have done it in every question you have set up and if your teacher saw it, you would (I hope) get marked down.

 

[Panthera Puss]

Baldur - I do broadly agree with what you were saying, I was mostly trying to put the opposite point of view that the forum has to be a broad church even if that annoys us sometimes. Also, too much criticism of the young can lead to disenchantment in them - perhaps I'm more tolerant due to a background in education. Note also that my criticism of you was an implied compliment


And yes it's only Dragon's if the animal is doing something or something belongs to it. The apostrophe means something's missed out for convenience:

One Dragon, two Dragons.

The Dragon's enclosure = the Dragon, his enclosure.

The Dragon's eating = the Dragon is eating.

(The Dragons' enclosure = it belongs to more than one Dragon).

 

[Baldur]

Baldur - I do broadly agree with what you were saying, I was mostly trying to put the opposite point of view that the forum has to be a broad church even if that annoys us sometimes. Also, too much criticism of the young can lead to disenchantment in them - perhaps I'm more tolerant due to a background in education. Note also that my criticism of you was an implied compliment

No worries This forum has taught me much about tolerance and I'd say that I'm fairly tolerant towards different opinions and don't let it bother me too much. There's just been so, so, very many of those threads lately.

 

[Chlidonias]

Sorry, but that's horse**** There's plenty of room for advanced serious discussion but mostly it's a fans' forum, IMO.

And who elected you Captain Bring-Down?

Note also that my criticism of you was an implied compliment

can you explain where the implied compliment to Baldur is in the first post? I can't see it. (I'm not being a smart-arse, I honestly want to know)

 

[Johnny Morris.]

Why not try a search of the forums, or even a quick look around the zoo's website which (for once) actually has some information on the animals in question? Approximately 1 minute of browsing brought up this:

Chester Zoo - Komodo Dragon

Where in that link does it tell you how Many Komodo dragons Chester has?

I've googled Komodo Dragons at Chester and looked at the entire first page.(This thread came up.) I still haven't found out. (apart from this thread now.) Admitedly, i could have gone a bit further with google, but what would be the point, when there is a readily available source of Knowledge on here? In my opinion Chester Zoo's website is poor. So Picking on a 12 year old is a bit harsh.

 

[Chlidonias]

Where in that link does it tell you how Many Komodo dragons Chester has?

first sentence: "The Islands in Danger exhibit is home to Chester Zoo’s three Komodo Dragons, the largest species of lizard in the world."

 

[Johnny Morris.]

So it does, Doh!

 

[Pygathrix]

And yes it's only Dragon's if the animal is doing something or something belongs to it. The apostrophe means something's missed out for convenience:

One Dragon, two Dragons.

The Dragon's enclosure = the Dragon, his enclosure.

The Dragon's eating = the Dragon is eating.

(The Dragons' enclosure = it belongs to more than one Dragon).

Excellent apostrophe advice. However, "dragon" in this context is not a proper noun and therefore should not have a capital letter.

 

[Baldur]

I've googled Komodo Dragons at Chester and looked at the entire first page.(This thread came up.) I still haven't found out. (apart from this thread now.) Admitedly, i could have gone a bit further with google, but what would be the point, when there is a readily available source of Knowledge on here? In my opinion Chester Zoo's website is poor. So Picking on a 12 year old is a bit harsh.

I can imagine how pleased and supportive everyone would be with Zoochat if, every single tiny little question we have, be it for research or travel, would be posted here in a one-line sentence in an individual thread, instead of making effort to dig out the answer.

I've said it before and say it again: Zoochat should be your last stop for information, when your own research has failed.

I had to know for a personal project the other day when the Red Rocks Ungulate Section at the Saint Louis Zoo was opened and their website didn't say. It took some ten minutes of Googling differently-phrased questions and keywords, but I'm pleased to say that I found out, although the easiest (albeit not the quickest way) would have been to just throw in a thread on Zoochat and then go for a drink.

There were 2000+ members here last time I knew. Here are a few examples of one-sentence threads that Zoochat would be full-of if we would all adapt the 'couch potatoe' way of thinking:

"What are the opening hours of Blackpool Zoo?"

"Do you know if Berlin Zoo in Germany has lions?"

"At what times of day is the Sea Lion show at SeaWorld Orlando?"

"Do you know where in the world Warthogs live?"