Longleat Safari & Adventure Park Longleat Safari Park News 2013

Visited Longleat Yesterday, They have teamed up with the BBC to brand Longleat with there deadly 60 programme. This will begin in 2 weeks.

The Flamingos are currently off display as they are doing work on the aviary.

Anne also off display and her paddock was occupied by 4 White Rhino, can anyone remember whether there was 5 Rhino? The 3 from Africa, the baby from germany and... ?

There was a baby Bactrian camel out in the big game park.

There were lion cubs in both prides, they seem to be breeding very well.

Speaking to a keeper in Jungle Kingdom, last years baby anteater is due to leave the collection, they are just finishing off the weaning process.
 
"Leave your ball behind". It was only 3pm today but as we watched elephant Anne called for her Longleat keeper to let her in to go to bed..
 

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Very nice to see but I just wish they could get her at least one companion- now, and not have to wait until they've built a new enclosure.
 
Longleat...

I went to Longleat on Thursday for the first time in years. A highlight was wild Ravens [I counted ten] waiting for a Wolf to finish at a carcass before moving in for what they could scavenge, then retreating when the Wolf returned to the 'kill'. Nice bit of natural predator/scavenger interaction.
I don't think I've see Short-clawed Otters sharing with Binturongs before. Just arboreal are Binturongs naturally, and does any UK zoo give them enough climbing opportunities?
Great to see Blackbuck & Wildebeest. Flamingos, Gorillas, Giraffes & Elephant were all indoors & invisible. Camels very active, Lions lying around, Anteaters just being Anteaters, all made up for what wasn't on view. Good day out, good 'zoo' experience.
 
FBBird said:
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I don't think I've see Short-clawed Otters sharing with Binturongs before. Just arboreal are Binturongs naturally, and does any UK zoo give them enough climbing opportunities.
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Colchester also have their binturong mixed with otters, in a similar but larger enclosure.
 
FBBird said:
I went to Longleat on Thursday for the first time in years. A highlight was wild Ravens [I counted ten] waiting for a Wolf to finish at a carcass before moving in for what they could scavenge, then retreating when the Wolf returned to the 'kill'. Nice bit of natural predator/scavenger interaction.

Great to see..... Gorillas,
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Ravens at Longleat would have been unheard of forty years ago. Must be interesting to see them scavenging on carnivores' meat. It must be a honeypot for them really. I have seen them flying around at Whipsnade(where they also nest) but not on the ground.

If you did the boat trip to see the Gorillas, how many did you see in a group- three or four? (or less?)
 
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Boat trip was as usual, a good Sealion experience, but it was very cold, snowing, & not a Gorilla to be seen. Don't know if the new boys have telly, but imagine Nico was watching Sky. That 'Gorilla Colony' enclosure looks a bit barren.... But then I'm used to Jersey.
 
I forgot the recent weather- too cold for them to be outside. I imagine the newer boys have telly also.

From photos on here, the new enclosure does look pretty bare with just a few oak trees and some boulders(?) They need clumps of Arrow Bamboo!
 
Fennec Fox are now on show in Animal Adventure (new species for the park)
 
Warminster Web said:
Boulas is still going out on his own, though they say that they are still hopeful of him mixing with the others sometime.
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'Sometime' does not sound very encouraging- it gives an open-ended time-scale but I think he may never successfully join the others.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
I wasn't aware that Doto came back from the dead and returned to Longleat in order to give birth to the calf :p
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Sired before departure :p Swap took place on 21st June 2012 - Gestation is roughly 15 months so the earliest we should be seeing any of Thorn's calves is September by my calculation
 
Nisha said:
Sired before departure :p Swap took place on 21st June 2012 - Gestation is roughly 15 months so the earliest we should be seeing any of Thorn's calves is September by my calculation
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May I suggest you switch Becky and Doto round as its normal for the sire to be listed first!
 
Nisha said:
Sired before departure :p
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It was indeed sired before Doto left the collection, which is why you really should have listed him as the sire and not the dam! Hence my remark he must have come back to life to give birth ;)
 
Whereas most normal (English speaking at least) can work out that Becky was likely to be the mother! And that deceased animals don't give birth whatever their gender.

Nice that he is still in business!
 
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