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Kates89

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Just heard a male lion killed a lioness at Longleat. Does anyone know which two were involved? Such sad news.

Im wondering if it could of been Harry, maybe hes still got tooth pain and made him react unusually.
 
Kates89 said:
Just heard a male lion killed a lioness at Longleat. Does anyone know which two were involved? Such sad news.

Im wondering if it could of been Harry, maybe hes still got tooth pain and made him react unusually.
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Very sad news whichever pride the lioness belonged to.
 
Kates89 said:
Just heard a male lion killed a lioness at Longleat. Does anyone know which two were involved? Such sad news.

Im wondering if it could of been Harry, maybe hes still got tooth pain and made him react unusually.
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I doubt the park will be forthcoming on the matter, although the local tabloids seem to be having a field day overdramatising the incident.
 
Panthera1981 said:
I doubt the park will be forthcoming on the matter, although the local tabloids seem to be having a field day overdramatising the incident.
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They probably will do what Noah’s ark did with the elephant tragedy and not say which elephant it was, but whenever animal park was on Harry’s pride always had trouble and one female was always singled out so it most likely was that
 
Does anyone know how old the younger lioness' in Harry's pride are?
Malaika (born 2005)
Sweet Pea (born 2006)
Pepper (born 2006 presumably)
 
Does anyone happen to know if Longleats list on ZTL is accurate? Particularly do they hold Kinkajous and North American Porcupine? And are both on display?
 
ZooAtHome said:
Does anyone happen to know if Longleats list on ZTL is accurate? Particularly do they hold Kinkajous and North American Porcupine? And are both on display?
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Yes they have pairs of each species. Both are on show in the Animal Adventure area of the park.
 
ZooAtHome said:
Thanks! I live close to Longleat but have never been, always been a bit put off by the price of entry.
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Get an Annual Pass. It's £100, and gives you unlimited entry all year round, including for many events like Sky Safari, and he Lights Festival, plus 10% off gift shop and food, and 20% of experiences. At £38 to visit longleat, its like 3 visits and its paid for itself. I used to live very close and went every 2 weeks, its one of the better value annual passes around, and certainly value for money if you live close.
 
ZooAtHome said:
Does anyone happen to know if Longleats list on ZTL is accurate? Particularly do they hold Kinkajous and North American Porcupine? And are both on display?
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They have two Tree Porcupine, Parsnip and Fennel. They are very active around 11am-12 noon when they are fed. Kinkajou are always asleep on top of their box! Never seen them out at all, and rarely even awake before closing.
The Tree Porcupine share with a Skunk called Cecil.
There is also a Prehensile Tailed Porcupine, who shares its exhibit with Golden-Handed Tamarins (Gaston and Mrs Potts). The Prehensile Tailed Porcupine, is called Pumpkin and often comes to the front of her inside exhibit later in the day, I've also never seen her outside.
They also now have a pair of Sloths called Chico and Truffles, who are in an odd exhibit, which surprisingly is unmanned given there are ropes above your head and they will often get very close to you.
 
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Alwaysevergreen said:
They have two Tree Porcupine, Parsnip and Fennel. They are very active around 11am-12 noon when they are fed. Kinkajou are always asleep on top of their box! Never seen them out at all, and rarely even awake before closing.
The Tree Porcupine share with a Skunk called Cecil.
There is also a Prehensile Tailed Porcupine, who shares its exhibit with Golden-Handed Tamarins (Gaston and Mrs Potts). The Prehensile Tailed Porcupine, is called Pumpkin and often comes to the front of her inside exhibit later in the day, I've also never seen her outside.
They also now have a pair of Sloths called Chico and Truffles, who are in an odd exhibit, which surprisingly is unmanned given there are ropes above your head and they will often get very close to you.
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The sloths have always been manned when ive been but the keepers have told us many storys of people holding kids up to see/tpuch them. There is even a tiktok video showing someone doing it.

It baffles me as they told us theyd never be able to do a animal experiance with the sloths because their claws could take your arm off but they could easily hurt a child who has stupid parents. (which would 100% be the parents fault!) you'd think though theyd do something to make it so people cant touch them. Just unsure what.

It suprises me they won't do a sloth experiance as they do it with the koalas, anteaters ect who I imagine can cause as much damage, if not more if they wanted too.
 
Alwaysevergreen said:
They have two Tree Porcupine, Parsnip and Fennel. They are very active around 11am-12 noon when they are fed. Kinkajou are always asleep on top of their box! Never seen them out at all, and rarely even awake before closing.
The Tree Porcupine share with a Skunk called Cecil.
There is also a Prehensile Tailed Porcupine, who shares its exhibit with Golden-Handed Tamarins (Gaston and Mrs Potts). The Prehensile Tailed Porcupine, is called Pumpkin and often comes to the front of her inside exhibit later in the day, I've also never seen her outside.
They also now have a pair of Sloths called Chico and Truffles, who are in an odd exhibit, which surprisingly is unmanned given there are ropes above your head and they will often get very close to you.
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I thought the male north American tree porcupine was called spud unless a new male has been brought in
 
hari Jones said:
I thought the male north American tree porcupine was called spud unless a new male has been brought in
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I think you may be right ! I think I’m getting the old Prehensile Tailed Porcupines name mixed up. I think he was Parsnip, and you’re right, I think it’s Spud and Fennel, and it was Pumpkin and Parsnip, but sadly Parsnip went to the big zoo in the sky.
 
The north American porcupines are spud and parsnip
And the prehensile tailed porcupines were squash and Pumpkin were the original pair of porcupines for the mammal house after the butterfly House closed but sadly squash passed away so Pumpkin is only remaining prehensile tailed porcupine
 
hari Jones said:
The north American porcupines are spud and parsnip
And the prehensile tailed porcupines were squash and Pumpkin were the original pair of porcupines for the mammal house after the butterfly House closed but sadly squash passed away so Pumpkin is only remaining prehensile tailed porcupine
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Parsnip has also died and the new female is called Fennel
 
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