Longleat Safari & Adventure Park Longleat Safari Park News 2010

i meet up with my m8 who works there yesterday. anew cheif executive has decided to move the trading post forward to the veiwing area. brindeled gnu will be put in the monkey jungle. they had just rounded up the monkeys (117 of them) for there finally blood test. but as the keepers went home one monkey rattled the iron grill in the window and 40 of them escaped. the herd of bactrian camels will be leaving longleat as there stomachs cant cope well on the rich grass soo dromedarys will be brought as caroline has been on her own for 2 years soo she has teamed up with the llamas. a new tapir called shaun will arive for jessie. and the moment you have all been waiting for about trevor the ostrich !....i am sorry to say despite his young age he had to be put to sleep has he was stapped one night by either the pere david stag or an ankole. the staff have beeen guted. this new cheif executive will be bringing more animals to longleat over the following years.
 
scimiterhorned1 said:
i meet up with my m8 who works there yesterday. anew cheif executive has decided to move the trading post forward to the veiwing area. brindeled gnu will be put in the monkey jungle. they had just rounded up the monkeys (117 of them) for there finally blood test. but as the keepers went home one monkey rattled the iron grill in the window and 40 of them escaped. the herd of bactrian camels will be leaving longleat as there stomachs cant cope well on the rich grass soo dromedarys will be brought as caroline has been on her own for 2 years soo she has teamed up with the llamas. a new tapir called shaun will arive for jessie. and the moment you have all been waiting for about trevor the ostrich !....i am sorry to say despite his young age he had to be put to sleep has he was stapped one night by either the pere david stag or an ankole. the staff have beeen guted. this new cheif executive will be bringing more animals to longleat over the following years.
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Very interesting report. Thanks.
 
scimiterhorned1 said:
i meet up with my m8 who works there yesterday. anew cheif executive has decided to move the trading post forward to the veiwing area. brindeled gnu will be put in the monkey jungle. they had just rounded up the monkeys (117 of them) for there finally blood test. but as the keepers went home one monkey rattled the iron grill in the window and 40 of them escaped. the herd of bactrian camels will be leaving longleat as there stomachs cant cope well on the rich grass soo dromedarys will be brought as caroline has been on her own for 2 years soo she has teamed up with the llamas. a new tapir called shaun will arive for jessie. and the moment you have all been waiting for about trevor the ostrich !....i am sorry to say despite his young age he had to be put to sleep has he was stapped one night by either the pere david stag or an ankole. the staff have beeen guted. this new cheif executive will be bringing more animals to longleat over the following years.
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I find it incredibly hard to believe half of the stuff you have written. Surely if the monkeys had escaped it would have been in the local news?
 
JamesB said:
I find it incredibly hard to believe half of the stuff you have written. Surely if the monkeys had escaped it would have been in the local news?
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I don't know, if they were recaptured quickly then why would they make a big news deal out of it? If it was quick (and not noticed by the general public), why would it have made the news?
 
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How come the grass at Longleat is suddenly too rich for Bactrian Camels? They've been there for donkey's years.
How is Nico?
 
FBBird said:
How come the grass at Longleat is suddenly too rich for Bactrian Camels? They've been there for donkey's years.
How is Nico?
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thats what
i thought and as they are endangered you would think that they would want to breed them. but for years the camels have had upset stomach because of the grass and it makes them look even more un attractive. they often have to dagg the camels because of this. soo we feel they would be better in a more zoo like enviroment.
 
scimiterhorned1 said:
thats what
i thought and as they are endangered you would think that they would want to breed them. but for years the camels have had upset stomach because of the grass and it makes them look even more un attractive. they often have to dagg the camels because of this. soo we feel they would be better in a more zoo like enviroment.
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What?! grass gives camels an upset stomach?! what aload of ....... the collection i am at has camels on grass, they breed and have no stomach problems, and they have alot of grass to gorge on, in a paddock at least double the size of longleats

As for dagging a camel.... it makes no sense to do that due to an upset stomach.
 
scimiterhorned1 said:
thats what
i thought and as they are endangered you would think that they would want to breed them. but for years the camels have had upset stomach because of the grass and it makes them look even more un attractive. they often have to dagg the camels because of this. soo we feel they would be better in a more zoo like enviroment.
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All the Bactrian Camels in zoos (except a single animal in Beijing) are the domestic form (Camelus bactrianus) which is not endangered.

The Wild Bactrian Camel, Camelus ferus, is considered Critically Endangered by the IUCN, but note they also consider it a completely different species from our zoo camels - see 'Taxonomic Notes' on this page: Camelus ferus (Bactrian Camel, Wild Bactrian Camel).

Some zoos of course label their camels as 'Critically Endangered' on the strength of C. ferus's status, but this is not strictly correct.
 
Dagging is done in breeds of sheep that have long, wooly tails. It entails shaving along the tail line, leaving a short haired tail. It is done to breeds of sheep whose tails are so long and wooly, that when they go to to toilet, it attaches itself to their tail, or simply they wee all over their tail!
Benefits of this (dagging) is that it significantly reduces fly-strike which is where flies lay their eggs in the wool of the animal, the eggs hatch into maggots which begin the eat the animal. Flystrike is most common in spring/summer.
 
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