Drayton Manor Theme Park Meerkat enclosure

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Here is the indoor part of the meerkats, at drayton maner zoo.

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You can see there is a walk way with the meercats can run under it, also in the second pic you can see some hides in the rocks :)
 
Anyone know the company taht makes the fake rocks, like the one in this housing ???
 
They look alright in real life, not that bad, but not the best
 
it looks like a set from a kids tv show! Hopefully in real life it looks better!
 
make the rocks your self....

you could pretty much follow this step to step guide on how to make a fiberglass enclosure and just adept the shape to you needs... in this case a rock

How to Make a Fiberglass Enclosure
of course you would use chicken wire instead of fabric

then to give it texture just cover it in a none toxic glue and blast it with dried sand

over and out
 
Was looking at an old map of Edinburgh zoo and the meerkat caught my eye, as Edinburgh no longer exhibits them.
I was therefore wondering what other major zoos or wildlife parks no longer exhibit the ubiquitous meerkat?
Every other zoo in the UK seems to have them and the only other one i can think of would be Howletts and the HWP for obvious reasons.
 
Even port lympne has them now. Thrigby (and cromer of course) won't due to the geographical nature of the collections, but that didn't stop Amazon zoo world from exhibiting them in the equivalent of a child's sandpit......

Combe martin used to bill their meerkat enclosure as the 'largest in britain', in the early 1990's, I don't know whether this is still true.

Does anyone remember when London zoo put it's meerkats in the giraffe enclosure a couple of years ago? Why did they stop this?
 
kiang said:
Was looking at an old map of Edinburgh zoo and the meerkat caught my eye, as Edinburgh no longer exhibits them.
I was therefore wondering what other major zoos or wildlife parks no longer exhibit the ubiquitous meerkat?
Every other zoo in the UK seems to have them and the only other one i can think of would be Howletts and the HWP for obvious reasons.
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I never even noticed there were no meerkats at Edinburgh. Just shows they weren't missed! Honestly though, I know people say they're boring, and they're everyday, but I think they make a fairly good exhibit. They're usually active, they're quite cute and they've usually got babies. Everyone's happy (except the zoo nerds!).
 
CZJimmy said:
The giraffes apparently stood on some of them...
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well that wouldnt take a genius to work out lol :D

if you put giraffes and meerkat together youre only gonna get one thing out and thats a very squashed meerkat!
 
I kind of expected the meerkats would be aware they were standing under a giraffe and not a tree, I guess I was wrong, I just assumed they escaped or something.....

BTW, while we are on meerkats, wasn't there a stage when Colchester tried to allow meerkats access to the last lion enclosure? I may be imagining things but wasn't the new lion exhibit also constructed with possible access for either fennec foxes or meerkats? I realise why they may no longer be trying this ; )
 
^Chris^ said:
I never even noticed there were no meerkats at Edinburgh.
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The European sousliks are using their outdoor enclosure and breeding there, and the rhinoceros iguanas are using the indoor enclosure in the pygmy hippo house.
 
kiang said:
The European sousliks are using their outdoor enclosure and breeding there, and the rhinoceros iguanas are using the indoor enclosure in the pygmy hippo house.
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Oh yeah, I remember now, when I went they still had meerkats (duh!). It's near the otters in that circular enclosure (there's even a photo in my gallery). I wish I'd seen sousliks now- maybe meerkats are a little bit boring.
 
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