Shaldon Wildlife Trust New births at Shaldon Wildlife Trust

I absaloutly loved the place when I visited and I must visit again to see the extension. Its great to see this small zoo going from strength to strength, and I congratulate the many births they are constantly producing!
 
Shaldon Wildlife Trust 25th anniversary

I went to the opening of the new extension and 25th anniversary do at Shaldon yesterday. The new area is great and there where a lot of people.
The director of EAZA and BIAZA and alot of other zoo directors where there, and the Cairman of WAZA! Peope obviously think alot of the place.
Owstons civets have just arrived, from Newquay I think.
 
pinkback said:
I went to the opening of the new extension and 25th anniversary do at Shaldon yesterday. The new area is great and there where a lot of people.
The director of EAZA and BIAZA and alot of other zoo directors where there, and the Cairman of WAZA! Peope obviously think alot of the place.
Owstons civets have just arrived, from Newquay I think.
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Shaldons plays quite a large role (for quite a small site) in the zoo world, so it doesnt suprise me. Have you got any photos? I love Shaldon and since Im in the North West I could not make it to the opening!
 
I had a look at their website, it appears to be quite an interesting place thanks for bringing this zoo to light, I will now keep an eye out on their progress
 
There are lots of pictures on the facebook site. i have some good ones of the civets, will post them soon!
 
pinkback said:
There are lots of pictures on the facebook site. i have some good ones of the civets, will post them soon!
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I know of the construction photos its just I would like to see pictures of the official opening! :o
 
Photos of the opening and our new Owston's civets will be on Facebook later today.......... Glad you enjoyed our opening Pinkback, it was an fantastic day for us :-)
 
Brother and sister. Aim will be to send one of them back to Vietnam and bring another animal over to bring some new blood into the population.
 
I had a fantastic first-ever visit to Shaldon on Tuesday and was really taken with the place. The births I noted were as follows (apologies for those already mentioned above):

Tamiops squirrels - 21/03/10 (quads) and 10/07/10 (quads)
Long-nosed potoroo - 16/04/10 (one)
Giant jumping rats - 06/05/10 (twins) and 04/09/10 (one)
Scarlet macaw - 27/05/10 (one)
Emperor tamarin - 06/06/10
Pied tamarin - 07/06/10 (twins)
Cusimanse - ventured out of nest box 31/07/10 (one)
Northern tree shrew - 28/07/10 (twins)
African brush-tailed porcupine - 05/08/10 (one)
Golden-headed lion tamarin - 11/08/10 (one)
Black-tailed marmoset - 14/08/10 (one)

There were also some young Azara's agoutis.

I thought this was a lovely little collection.
 
Update

A baby Red Titi has been born.
A baby Black Tailed Marmoset has been born.
Mlagasy Jumping Rat(s) have been born (?)
I think (?) the Swinhoe Squirrels and Silvery Marmosets may have bred too?
The Lories have been moved into their wonderful new aviary.
Future plan is to focus upon one species of Ruffed Lemur (instead of the two - Red and B & W) and use the space of both enclosures as one.
* The new extension [all done for 170 K] is amazing and as another zoo chatter posted, it should serve as a lesson to all other UK collections!
It was good to see the Civets - one got up and moved around its nest box midday!
A great little place that needs more support.
 
In recent weeks two baby black-tailed marmosets and one white-faced saki monkey have been born at Shaldon Zoo (Shaldon Wildlife Trust).
 
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