Yes, i recollect seeing them at longleat when very small (early 90's), I also remember on some tacky TV programme once a car breaking down and catching fire in the cheetah enclosure and the people having to vacate the car into the animals enclosure.
Longleat Safari & Adventure Park Longleat Safari Park News 2010
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Yes, i recollect seeing them at longleat when very small (early 90's), I also remember on some tacky TV programme once a car breaking down and catching fire in the cheetah enclosure and the people having to vacate the car into the animals enclosure.
josh_08
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Latest otter pups being hand-reared after mother 'rosie' hasnt enough milk.
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Otterly adorable: Tiny pups reared by humans because their mother is too old to care for them | Mail Online
Does anybody know in total how many litters this pair has had to date and the number of pups?
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Otterly adorable: Tiny pups reared by humans because their mother is too old to care for them | Mail Online
Does anybody know in total how many litters this pair has had to date and the number of pups?
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pandas elephants.eight gorrilas.new CEO,at longleat,is telling people all these are coming to longleat.I have to say somthing because the general staff at longleat are very concerned that this new bloke has been taken on with no animal experience and wants to get up to all sorts,moral is at an all time low,lucky iam only seasonal worker,he shouts all over of what he will do here so news will be quite easy.
pandas elephants.eight gorrilas.new CEO,at longleat,is telling people all these are coming to longleat.I have to say somthing because the general staff at longleat are very concerned that this new bloke has been taken on with no animal experience and wants to get up to all sorts,moral is at an all time low,lucky iam only seasonal worker,he shouts all over of what he will do here so news will be quite easy.
MARK
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I remember many years ago Longleat was regarded "THE" best UK safari park with a really good collection of animals so what has happened since?, why did the elephants leave?.
Some of the other UK safari parks are becoming more focused on the more rare and endangered species with one park even having Indian rhino which I never thought I would see in a safari park, it appears that Longleat has slipped behind in more resent years
Some of the other UK safari parks are becoming more focused on the more rare and endangered species with one park even having Indian rhino which I never thought I would see in a safari park, it appears that Longleat has slipped behind in more resent years
Of the five 'proper' safari parks in the UK, I'd rank Longleat no higher than fourth - Woburn, West Mids and Knowsley would all top it for me.
I suppose most of us here agree - that despite all the mumbo jumbo BBC Animal Park's - Longleat SP is very much behind the times, both in terms of animal collection, presentation, ex situ and in situ conservation work. Where most UK safari parks have moved on and are slowly - admittedly slowly - developing in more conservation oriented facilities with a far wider and diverse animal collection - Longleat has lingered on past successes (in the sixties) and was contend to present a social grouping of 1.1 western lowland gorillas ... sea lions and hippos in a natural pond system (zoogeographic storyline ...????) and such like.
IMO Longleat represents the yesteryear safaripark ..., and for all the CEO's shouting something has gotta give ... to make the park pay its way and be both emotionally and educationally challenging to visitors and the more versed zoo going public!
MARK
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Very well said KB I agree Longleat does appear to be living in the past and lagging behind the other UK safari parks, where do they go for here?, I guess we such see over the next couple of years
I would put my money on Woburn as pointing the direction in which Safari Parks should be going- with their interesting and increasingly diverse collection of animals with the dual purpose of both 'amusement'/education AND breeding rare species for conservation. They've proved the two aims can be joint.
MARK
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I would have to agree here
.Maybe Woburn could also use a pair of Indian rhinos as well
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Maybe Woburn could also use a pair of Indian rhinos as well
I would actually have preferred to see them get a pair than West Midlands SP, which although they have a lot of interesting species(apart from the dreaded White animals!) is still a pretty 'tacky' set-up IMO.
However Woburn might have been a little too close for Whipsnade's comfort(just 12 miles down the road) for them to display Indian rhinos too?
I dunno, if you've visited Longleat recentley you'll see they really do go high on their education; panels on sustainability and man's destruction of the Earth's resources are all over Animal Adventure, the talks both there and on the safari boat commentary carry strong educational messages, the safari park has both a guide book and free audio CD to make up for the inability to have signage in a drive-through reserve and the Park DOES work with conservational organisations such as the TUSK trust and the Diane Fossey Foundation (the latter of which visitors are encouraged to donate into the box after getting off the boats). And they're scope is certainly going beyond the usual safari park scope, with bongo, warthogs, nyala, siberian weasels and giant anteaters joining in recent years: And with the hopeful inclusion of more small exotics in the mini safari, and if animals such as cheetahs and elephants are indeed returning, then I think I can say things are looking up.
Just didn't think it deserved all it's stick.
EDIT: @Pertinax, then let Longleat have some. ;D
Just didn't think it deserved all it's stick.
EDIT: @Pertinax, then let Longleat have some. ;D
Little Lion Man
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Also you have to give them credit for there giraffe breeding, and more importantly not breeding hybrids unlike every other zoo in England! Like most places there behind in some area's but ahead in others.
I haven't been to Longleat for a long while, so haven't added any comments about them.
Regarding Indian rhino- no reason why they couldn't accomodate some at Longleat except they still aren't that available- however I do foresee more Safari Parks maybe taking them on in the future as they do have the space this species really needs, though surprisingly many of the existing captive stock were bred and stilll live in the 'old' urban Zoos of Europe (Basel, Berlin, Rotterdam, Stuttgart, Nurnberg, Lisbon, Edinburgh etc).
I dunno, if you've visited Longleat recentley you'll see they really do go high on their education; panels on sustainability and man's destruction of the Earth's resources are all over Animal Adventure, the talks both there and on the safari boat commentary carry strong educational messages, the safari park has both a guide book and free audio CD to make up for the inability to have signage in a drive-through reserve and the Park DOES work with conservational organisations such as the TUSK trust and the Diane Fossey Foundation (the latter of which visitors are encouraged to donate into the box after getting off the boats). And they're scope is certainly going beyond the usual safari park scope, with bongo, warthogs, nyala, siberian weasels and giant anteaters joining in recent years: And with the hopeful inclusion of more small exotics in the mini safari, and if animals such as cheetahs and elephants are indeed returning, then I think I can say things are looking up.
Just didn't think it deserved all it's stick.
EDIT: @Pertinax, then let Longleat have some. ;D
i do enjoy the free audio
longlete has fallen behind slightly but it is still a leader in education, also it does have abright future
I don't know when you went to Longleat but that certainly wasn't the case on the boats last weekend. The entire time the guide was talking about the animals you could see. Nothing what so ever to do with conservation or education.
There is very little signage on Animal Adventures at the moment. All we could see were the name plates for the different animals on display.
I dunno, if you've visited Longleat recentley you'll see they really do go high on their education; panels on sustainability and man's destruction of the Earth's resources are all over Animal Adventure, the talks both there and on the safari boat commentary carry strong educational messages, the safari park has both a guide book and free audio CD to make up for the inability to have signage in a drive-through reserve and the Park DOES work with conservational organisations such as the TUSK trust and the Diane Fossey Foundation (the latter of which visitors are encouraged to donate into the box after getting off the boats). And they're scope is certainly going beyond the usual safari park scope, with bongo, warthogs, nyala, siberian weasels and giant anteaters joining in recent years: And with the hopeful inclusion of more small exotics in the mini safari, and if animals such as cheetahs and elephants are indeed returning, then I think I can say things are looking up.
Just didn't think it deserved all it's stick.
EDIT: @Pertinax, then let Longleat have some. ;D
Why would Longleat want something as obvious as Elephants and cheetah?
if they are improving the collection by including more unusual species (as you said Bongo, anteater etc) then why would they not continue with this and include rarer/unusual species?
I'm only stating them as examples that other people have mentioned have been reconsidered for the future. They may not be especially, but they're big species that would allow Longleat to catch up with other safari parks.
I last went to Longleat in October, going again in two weeks. I guess you could well have had a different approach from a different guide, as I found all previous commentaries to be pretty well laid out IMO. And the last time I went Animal Adventure had only just opened, so most of the signage was still in Pets Corner. I was in the assumption it had been relocated to AA after PC's closure, sorry.
I last went to Longleat in October, going again in two weeks. I guess you could well have had a different approach from a different guide, as I found all previous commentaries to be pretty well laid out IMO. And the last time I went Animal Adventure had only just opened, so most of the signage was still in Pets Corner. I was in the assumption it had been relocated to AA after PC's closure, sorry.
I think with the new Mini Safari being readied nothing much moved over.
They are probably just waiting for that to be finished.
Animal Adventures is still a very nice section, try and get to see them feeding the otter pups they are very cute. Romeo will probably being trying to mate with Rosie. Although she looked very unimpressed last weekend.
I guess the talks on the boats might well depend on the particular guide.
Be careful of the wasps, there were hundreds of the things last weekend. It it's warm god help you.
They are probably just waiting for that to be finished.
Animal Adventures is still a very nice section, try and get to see them feeding the otter pups they are very cute. Romeo will probably being trying to mate with Rosie. Although she looked very unimpressed last weekend.
I guess the talks on the boats might well depend on the particular guide.
Be careful of the wasps, there were hundreds of the things last weekend. It it's warm god help you.