Edinburgh Zoo Marmoset House

[ZooNut23]

Does anyone have any photos or recollections of the original marmoset house at Edinburgh Zoo pre the Magic Forest? From memory it was a small, concrete cube-shaped building that had two cages in it at the most. I'd like to know what species were kept if possible.

All trace of it seems to have been removed from the Internet, if ever there was any

 

[adamntitch]

Was that the building on the lawn area between sun bears and chimps

 

[Dylan]

Was that the building on the lawn area between sun bears and chimps

If it is that small building, it last held the male group of meerkats (which I think moved to the Edinburgh Sick Kids), and was demolished shortly after they moved out.

 

[ZooNut23]

If it is that small building, it last held the male group of meerkats (which I think moved to the Edinburgh Sick Kids), and was demolished shortly after they moved out.

Yeah it is that building. Do you know roughly when it was demolished? I do remember it still being there for a bit after the Magic Forest was built but it feels like a long time ago

 

[adamntitch]

Yeah it is that building. Do you know roughly when it was demolished? I do remember it still being there for a bit after the Magic Forest was built but it feels like a long time ago

. It was still there round about 2020 as was in the documentary inside the zoo when the male meerkats where held there

 

[Ratty]

Can't remember when it was knocked down but the meerkats that were there are now in the enclosure opposite, adjacent to sloths (that used to be the lorikeet walkthrough).
When it was used as a marmoset house I think there were actually 4-5 enclosures ( they were small) and they had emperor tamarins, silvery marmosets as well as cotton tops and maybe one or two other species.
When the meerkats were in there there might have been a reptile species in an indoor enclosure but can't remember which?

 

[adamntitch]

Can't remember when it was knocked down but the meerkats that were there are now in the enclosure opposite, adjacent to sloths (that used to be the lorikeet walkthrough).
When it was used as a marmoset house I think there were actually 4-5 enclosures ( they were small) and they had emperor tamarins, silvery marmosets as well as cotton tops and maybe one or two other species.
When the meerkats were in there there might have been a reptile species in an indoor enclosure but can't remember which?

am sure the tegu was there for a while before moving in to the hippo house