Longleat Safari & Adventure Park Longleat Safari Park News 2023
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They hyenas aren’t off show they are visible in the drive thru.. but their locations allows them to be hidden which is what these animals need. As it’s taken years for them to be trustworthy of the keepers and to go indoors on command, which allow the keepers into their enclosure to clean their area and add enrichment items,
So sad about the male koala hope not Dennis! Even the loss of Burke is very sad but he lives on in Monty and Hazel his offspring x
So sad about the male koala hope not Dennis! Even the loss of Burke is very sad but he lives on in Monty and Hazel his offspring x
Lafone
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Do we have a source for that? Not an animal keeper etc here so content to be corrected but I’d think it surprising and could be dangerous for any animal to take years to move to an area when needed. They need to be moved for vet treatment etc for a start. It follows if they wouldn’t move to an indoor or other area when required they’d have to be sedated and as they have a group would they sedate all of them to look at one? Seems a bit impractical. It sounds like something they’d say on the TV programme or elsewhere for effect - I’d have thought the keepers at Longleat would have years of experience of moving dangerous animals from large enclosures to indoor areas or other enclosures.
Sometimes, you get an individual animal, or a species, that can't be 'trained' to a normal zoo routine. In which case they just have to be worked around. This sounds like one of those situations and I can quite believe it.
It was on animal park. How one of the hyenas was good and would follow food into the indoors when needed, the other was so nervous of people in general it was near impossible to get him to go where needed,
Lafone
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If there is one nervous animal I can understand that. But all of them unable to be persuaded to go inside since 2018 when they arrived, that I'd find hard to believe in terms of looking after them.
Sadly it was Burke who passed. He lived a long and amazing life though and he will always live on in Hazel and Monty
RIP Burke. As you say he leaves a great legacy with two beautiful youngsters!
Does anyone know what Burke died of, or how old he was?
17, although his birthday was December so I guess he could have been 18.
Sadly it was Burke who passed. He lived a long and amazing life though and he will always live on in Hazel and Monty
Does anyone know why there’s been nothing about this from Longleat?
Goodbye Burke
We are very sad to share the news that one of Longleat’s beloved Koalas, Burke, known as アーク (Ark) in Japan, has passed away at the grand old age of 17. He joined the Longleat family in 2019 from Osaka Tennoji Zoo to become part of a breeding programme aimed at protecting the future of the Southern Koala. He was cherished by the people of Japan.
Burke leaves us with not only fond memories but also the legacy of his offspring, Hazel and Monty, who were the first two Southern Koalas born in Europe. They continue to reside at Longleat with their mothers, Violet and Maizie, and are part of the programme to secure a long-term future for Southern Koalas.
Burke also contributed to our koala conservation work, which - in partnership with organisations in the UK and Australia - identified a retro-virus test that is now being used to protect the wild koala population.
Burke was very much loved by his keepers at Osaka Tennoji Zoo and Longleat, as well as everyone in Japan and the UK who had the chance to visit him. He was incredibly special to us all and will be very sadly missed.
It's a really sad daySadly it was Burke who passed. He lived a long and amazing life though and he will always live on in Hazel and Monty
Sad news to learn.Sadly it was Burke who passed. He lived a long and amazing life though and he will always live on in Hazel and Monty
He was born at Melbourne Zoo back in 2006, so I recall seeing him there when he was younger.
It's really awesome to hear he was finally able to have offspring at Longleat, and at seventeen he was certainly at the upper end of their life expectancy. May he rest in peace.
Dr. Loxodonta
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On a cheerier note, on my visit on the 27th, I managed to spot the head of Anne as she looked outside! She really is an incredible Animal!
What's an "Anne"?
The resident Asiatic Elephant.
Lafone
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I think that will be Anne the Asian elephant who is the solo elephant there having gone to Longleat from circus ownership (accompanied by the conviction of her former owner for animal cruelty).
Dr. Loxodonta
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Yes, she was the last Circus Elephant in the U.K
And thank god there will never be another circus elephant on these isles again!