Furuvik Park News from Furuviksparken

Thesweham

Thesweham

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An excellent news from Furuvik! For some weeks ago: 1.0 Western common chimpanzee called; Tjobbe have arrived from Veszprém zoo in Hungary. The plan is to breed him with the female, Linda who is a Western common chimpanzee too. :)

The park is to integrate him with the park´s 5 other Chimps, including the male Santino. It can to be hard to integrate two adult male chimps (Santino & Tjobbe), but the park is supported by Charlotte McDonald, Twycross who is an expert at integrate Chimpanzee.
 
A Northern white-cheeked gibbon pair have arrived to Furuvik. The female's name is, Chelawak (B. 12 Dec 2006 - branféré, FRA).
 
Thesweham said:
An excellent news from Furuvik! For some weeks ago: 1.0 Western common chimpanzee called; Tjobbe have arrived from Veszprém zoo in Hungary. The plan is to breed him with the female, Linda who is a Western common chimpanzee too. :)

The park is to integrate him with the park´s 5 other Chimps, including the male Santino. It can to be hard to integrate two adult male chimps (Santino & Tjobbe), but the park is supported by Charlotte McDonald, Twycross who is an expert at integrate Chimpanzee.
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What is the current status of the chimps at Furuviksparken / Gavle?
(I was also under the impression that there was another pure verus female in Maria Magdalena (born in Boras Zoo in 2000)?)
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
What is the current status of the chimps at Furuviksparken / Gavle?
(I was also under the impression that there was another pure verus female in Maria Magdalena (born in Boras Zoo in 2000)?)
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The current chimps in Furuvik are:
Santino - Male B 1978 München (Leader)
Tjobbe - Male B 2003 Arnhem
Linda - Female B 1984 Liberia
Maria Magdalena - Female B 2000 Borås
Manda - Female B 2004 Kolmården
Selma - Female B 2008 Kolmården

I haven't too much knowledge - But yes, Maria Magdalena is sure a Westen chimp also because what I have seen from the studbook that her parent: Jonathan and Malin are siblings. Malin left Borås with another female last year for Valencia, while Jonathan (leader in Borås) was joined by two new females from Chesters (Westen chimpanzees) in his group. :)
 
1.1 Red ruffed lemur have arrived. This is a new species for the park(and the country) and Furuvik hopes to get lemur babies from the couple in future. The name of the lemurs are, Mangoro and Mandry. :)

Pressrum
 
Some great news!

A record year for Furuvik this year, over 304 103 visitors has visited the park this season (20/5-20/8)! This is the highest visitor number since the park was opened in 1900.

Tidernas bästa säsong i Furuvik!

The Swedish, University of Lund has also made an interesting study of reaction between zoo visitors and Chimpanzee.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170821102720.htm
Both chimpanzees and humans spontaneously imitate each other's actions 

Schimpanser och djurparksbesökare imiterar varandra lika mycket
(Swedish)
 
Torsten is named after a keeper who have worked with the chimps in the zoo for a long time, prety much since the time of the dinosaurs ;)
 
While locking at the park map one the webisite i was suprise to se that they now have takin and
blackbuck. it looks that it is the area that had kangaroos before. i can in no way comferim this but i think they come from kolmorden constidering kolmorden has both species. the map also say they are geting red pandas soon. they have six blackbuck
 
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