Edinburgh Zoo New Arrivals in 2009

I think their last aye-aye will leave soon to Jersey! The species that will be increasing by a large percentage is kept in a group already!:)
 
Mr Gelada said:
Ohh this has got me intruiged over this what can it be.............. hmmmm more chimps
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I was told on my last visit that Edinburgh would be increasing the Chimp group, with the arrival of a group of West African Chimps from Europe, but I don't know any more details than that.
 
Bwassa said:
I was told on my last visit that Edinburgh would be increasing the Chimp group, with the arrival of a group of West African Chimps from Europe, but I don't know any more details than that.
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It was always intended for them to add to the existing group, with purebred Chimps, so this does seem likely. Presumably they will eventually be integrated into a single group- PRESUMING it is chimps of course.;)
 
If it is the chimps, in the not too distant future 11 chimpanzzes with a 5 male, 6 female split are coming from Safari Beekse Bergen. The keepers at Edinburgh are going to have a lot of work ahead of them over the coming months!

It makes you want to tell Kindia to stop challenging Qafzeh for the leadership!

Incidentally, the volunteers and education staff at the very least ahve a list of names, ages birthplaces etc and have had since August!
 
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Yes, it was the Dutch chimps i was talking about

So exciting. Imagine what Budongo will be like with double the number of chimps, imagine what it will be like with babies (hopefully), imagine what it will be like if it reaches full capacity- A massive troop of 40 chimps in the middle of Edinburgh!
 
2.1.2 red bellied lemurs have arrived at the zoo and are currently in one of the enclosure in the monkey house, as well as 2 (unknown sex) mongoose lemurs, which are housed in the lemur walk through, waiting for the ring tailed lemurs to be moved out and placed in their enclosure.
1.0 yellow breasted capuchin has arrived and the previous male has been moved on.

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If you're in the zoo in the near future head to near the top to African Plains, potential treats there, and the squirrel monkeys in Living Links have been busy as well. Also in the Australasian Aviary , the Victoria Crowned Pigeons have been busy. Personally I've been watching the swamp wallabies as well! Convinced something might put in an appearance there. It's been a very productive year for young at the zoo with births almost weekly! This, I think, suggests they are doing something right at the zoo, and getting things such as diet for the penguins being one of many.
 
Kandy, the female purple faced langur is pregnant, so hopefully we will see a female young.
The European otters imported from Switzerland and Germany, had produced a litter of pups in their quarantine enclosure, but these sadly did not survive.
Kirke, one of the 2 female wolverine will leave the zoo soon.
 
Simon McGlary said:
If it is the chimps, in the not too distant future 11 chimpanzzes with a 5 male, 6 female split are coming from Safari Beekse Bergen.
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ISIS lists the majority(17.24) of Chimpanzees at Beekes Bergen as West African- so presumably this pure group will be allowed to breed in order to eventually phase out the mixed race stock.

I wonder if they will be able to integrate the two groups successfully together with Edinburgh's existing group being so long established and also on their 'home' ground....
 
FYI, the chimp group at Beekse Bergen are former lab-chimps that came from a direct-import from Africa and are considered pure. The rest of this group is at Copenhagen, and a small portion that was purpously infected with, i think TBC?, is kept at a special facility of "Stichting AAP" (a primate rescue center in Holland).
 
Thanks for the background information. I know it was always Edinburgh's intention to add only Western Chimps to their existing group so that eventually they would have a large group of pure Western chimps.

Knowing how territorial 'clans' of wild chimpanzees can be, I still wonder if they intend to try to mix the new and existing groups together and if so, if it will prove successfull.
 
I think Simons comments were regarding the new zebra foal that has been born :) not a threat..lol...tho she might be scary.. i have not been able to get to the zoo to have a look :)
 
kiang said:
The zoos website has had a bit of a makeover, look out for the animal info, with detailed info on the animals themselves, and what collections they came from.
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I think this is a great feature, I wish all zoos had this kind of information. The images are excellent too.
 
Mr Gelada said:
Hi in reference to Simon's comments what are the potential threats up at the African plains!!!!!!!
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Oops, mispelling, meant treats!. The only threat is getting absolutely soaked to the skin spending so much time watching the foals!

As for the website updates and information on the animals. It was always the zoos intention to provide more info on the animals but as always with Edinburgh and there ideas for moving forward, if they are going to do things, lets do it with style, no half measures and if it can't be done well don't even try.

Any births, although the animals can clearly be seen in their respective enclosures, only get announced to the press once they have passed the most critical stage of their life and have had a full vet check and any additional vetinary treatment that may be required.

Also, to keep people guessing, the RZSS view the collection as a whole as one collection on two sites (Edinburgh and HWP) and long term the plan is to, generally, keep the more endangered and unusual species that are more suited to the Scottish climate. It would make the collection at the two sites one of the most unusual and interesting collections in the UK, certainly one of the most different! Coupled with the societies on site labs doing a lot of work into the science of animal genetics you could argue that Edinburgh is becoming a leading light in conservation in some of the planets most endangered species.
 
A new male Asian golden cat has arrived at the zoo from Parc des Felins in France to pair up with Swa-Fai
 
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