So once Anne passes away will Longleat receive a breeding heard of Asian Elephants?So that they can contribute to the European Endangered Species Breeding Program. If the answer is yes that'll make an amazing sight to see . This is because the sight would be extremely rare in a United Kingdom based Safari Park.This world definitely draw in even more visitors to Longleat Safari Park than normal.
I'm generally extremely shocked that none of the young sexually mature female Sealions have been moved on to fuel the breeding program with new and fresh genetic bloodlines.
I really do hope that Longleat bring in some young up and coming female Western Lowland Gorillas as their is a lack of available breeding females . For some reason in complete contract there is an acsess amount of males being born. The overload of male offspring is so large that zoo's such as Chessington and London are even castrateing any male offspring that are born. The mentioned zoo's are doing this to try and even out the sex racio and strengthen the captive Western Lowland Gorilla gene pool.
Longleat would need a significantly bigger enclosure and housing than they currently have, to have a herd of elephants so it is unlikely.
some of the female sea lions have moved on to other collections others have passed away form old age. There have been a number of births over the past 7 years that we have been annual pass holders. Buster has now been given a more permanent contraception. Memphis is the new young make that has been introduced to the lake. He is truly beautiful and seems to have integrated well into the group. He looked fantastic when we saw him on Boxing Day.
I think there was a lot of confusion caused by the wording of articles produced around the time of the creation of gorilla colony. It was never planned that there would be breeding/females within the colony at Longleat. Certainly not from any of the information that staff have given or publicity from the zoo over the last 7-8 years. It was planned that Boulas and the others, deemed genetically important for the future conservation of the species, would form a batchelor group and when suitable would potentially move on when sexually mature to other collections to further assist with conservation and breeding. That was the information that we were given anyway.
