Writhedhornbill
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Chester zoo is listed as having 4025 seba's short tailed bats. Is this right? Last time I looked the population was around 500!
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I think it must be wrong. Not so long ago they were trying to bring the numbers down. They had 659 at the beginnig of the year. That's an increase of 3363 in just over 6 months, I don't think they breed that fast. Perhaps it should read 425.
Some of the rodent figures I think are errors also.
Some of the rodent figures I think are errors also.
taun
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I argee bongrob, must be a mistake and the real number is surely around 425.
Writhedhornbill
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Parrots
Chester now has 2.1 Blue throated conure-do they plan to breed this species again?
Chester is listed as having 1.1 golden capped conure- where are these kept in the zoo?
Chester now has 2.1 Blue throated conure-do they plan to breed this species again?
Chester is listed as having 1.1 golden capped conure- where are these kept in the zoo?
zoogiraffe
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The Campbells Monkeys are no longer in with the Mandrills so i think they may have left the zoo.
It looked like they were being prepared for leaving because there were animal carriers in the keeper area behind the mandrill enclosure. The carrier looked too small for a mandrill so I assumed the monkeys were being caught up.
Could this be a foretaste of what happens with mixed monkey exhibits in the future? I think it is asking for trouble when the different species are going to be in enforced proximity with each other.....
Pertinax you could be right, but I think it depends on the animals themselves.
Chester used to house mandrill, grivet monekys, Campbell's guenons and African crested porcupines together with out any problems. All the primates regularly groomed each other regardless of the species.
Chester used to house mandrill, grivet monekys, Campbell's guenons and African crested porcupines together with out any problems. All the primates regularly groomed each other regardless of the species.
zoogiraffe
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Their were quite a few problems which is why they removed the Grivet Monkeys and the African Creasted Porcupines from the exhibit.
Are we talking about in the existing Mandrill enclosure in the Monkey House here? (there was a period when I never visited Chester for many years so I wouldn't have seen this...)
I also agree the 'mixed exhibit' idea depends largely on the individual species(and individuals) concerned. I imagine that where a large or dominant species- like Mandrills- is in a minority with only a pair or so, they won't present much trouble to another species but as the group enlarges they become a more powerful force. Chester may need to establish the correct balance in each mixed exhibit and then maintain this ratio longterm.
zoogiraffe
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Yes it is the current exhibit i`m refering to,part of the problem was the Mandrills,the other was a mangement problen with the Porcupines.
Susan Humphreys
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chester zoo canal boats
On a recent visit I overheard keepers discussing that the boats were going (they didn't actually say at Chester I guess it could have been elsewhere - Longleat maybe) to be replaced with motorised ones on a lake.
Anyone know anything about this?
Ta Susan
On a recent visit I overheard keepers discussing that the boats were going (they didn't actually say at Chester I guess it could have been elsewhere - Longleat maybe) to be replaced with motorised ones on a lake.
Anyone know anything about this?
Ta Susan
taun
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On a recent visit I overheard keepers discussing that the boats were going (they didn't actually say at Chester I guess it could have been elsewhere - Longleat maybe) to be replaced with motorised ones on a lake.
Anyone know anything about this?
Ta Susan
Chester may be losing there boats but it would only make sense if they were planing to replace them with something else.
I havn't heard anything I on this
Longleat will definitely not be getting rid of theirs.
Does anybody know what the specific problems were. I know that rodents and primates can be a tricky mixture even though it is commonly done. There is an American report done quite a few years ago which looked specifically at mixed exhibits with callithricids (probabaly not the correct spelling) with larger primates, birds, other large mammals and reptiles with very mixed results. Where the porkys to blame or the mandrills?
So far as the mandrills with the other primates, again it seems it to depend on the individual personalities. Gorillas and orangs have been mixed with colobus, guenons, macaques and gibbons with varying shades of success. Sometimes it is one odd event that causes the problem. And of course Taronga did experiment with jackals/patas monkey with their chimps... it didn't end well.
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