Paignton Zoo Paignton Zoo News 2019

The Hedgehog said:
Triuk stated the following sentence
The young male lion had been separated into the back pen which is visible by peeking over the fence by the Ural owls.

Does this mean, that the young male Lion namely Yali could be being prepared to move to a new zoo. Under the requirements of the Europian endangered species breeding program?
If so what will happen to his sister and littermate Arya will she move on or will Paington retain her as the breeding Lioness as they did with her mother Maliya and her grandmother Indu? Also thier father Lucifer is quite elderly now so will the zoo casterate or put him on contraception until he sadly passes away,as if they do this they could keep Arya and just bring in another fertile Lion to breed with Arya if and when Lucifer dies.

Alternatively if Yali is being moved on they could put Lucifer into the off show lion enclosure on breeding retirement,while also bringing in a new male to pair with Arya as a breeding pair in the on show enclosure!

Many thanks for taking the time to read my long rambling essay!

Finally have a nice weekend!

Kind regards From The Hedgehog
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re. the lion - it could be nothing more than separation for training or health care. Or, the two males need separating for imminent moves (EEP programme) to prevent fighting/in-breeding.
 
TriUK said:
re. the lion - it could be nothing more than separation for training or health care. Or, the two males need separating for imminent moves (EEP programme) to prevent fighting/in-breeding.
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It would seem these moves are in prep for a transfer. Remember it has been a very long time with no import/export here
 
Updates:
Has there been any movements in/out in last fortnight or any work on the many empty enclosures?
 
Oh dear. As I was coming out of Monkey Heights today, a rather jaded looking woman asked if there was anything to see in there. I said there were some monkeys and she replied 'Oh good, I thought it was Spot the Animal'. She might have faced further disappointment because most of the residents were outside so she'd probably already seen them.
 
Gigit said:
The cherry-crowned mangabeys, Yengo and Kibibi, have had another son. He was born on 6 September, the same birth date as their 2 year old daughter.
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By my recollection this is either the pair's fourth, or is it their fifth birth at Paignton; son-daughter(died after attack by Herr Mangabey)-?-daughter- new son...
 
Pertinax said:
By my recollection this is either the pair's fourth, or is it their fifth birth at Paignton; son-daughter(died after attack by Herr Mangabey)-?-daughter- new son...
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Here's their breeding history, as noted by me over the years:
2 July 2010 female Ekuku born. She moved to a European zoo in 2015.
20 October 2011 male Kumba born. Died May 2016.
26 March 2013 female Gimbia born. She was killed by Herr Mangabey on 8 February 2014
26 September 2014 female born. Died 18 October 2014.
10 May 2015 male Yankari born. Still at PZ.
6 September 2017 female Kalia born. Still at PZ.
6 September 2019 male born.
 
Noticed today the gate between the giraffe and elephant paddock was open. According to a regular, it has been open for weeks but the Giraffe have not shown any willing to enter of their own accord. Personally, I can't wait to see the giraffe using that side!
The zoo looked great today. The Pileated Gibbons were putting on a great show and the tropical house is the best its been in years!
 
I have seen farriers at the zebra house at Paignton twice in the past couple of years and I do not visit particularly frequently, so I expect I have missed more visits than I have seen.
Visitors should also realise that hoof care on an adult male zebra is far more difficult than on a tame domestic horse or pony - the farrier seems to need the assistance of a vet, half a dozen zoo staff and his/her own assistants, I presume they have to administer a general anaesthetic and monitor the 'patient'. The procedure must be both risky and stressful for the animal and for the humans.
 
gentle lemur said:
I presume they have to administer a general anaesthetic and monitor the 'patient'. The procedure must be both risky and stressful for the animal and for the humans.
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Yes on all counts. In the wild I believe mountain zebra inhabit rocky/harder surfaces than other zebra species, so the hooves are designed for the wear such hard substrate creates and grow accordingly. But this becomes a problem with overgrowth in captivity. Grass enclosures/soft substrate aggravate the problem.
 
TriUK said:
Paignton Zoo responds to outrage over picture of zebra

This is not good press for PZ! I hope all is ok?
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The zebras had a larger audience than usual this morning with people muttering about 'that's the one in the news'. Uri and Taru were out on the grass so the hooves wouldn't have been as noticeable as they were last week when they were in their yards. Even I took a photo of them then, although I wasn't too concerned about them having witnessed several farrier visits over the years. Uri doesn't seem to be too bothered either. I did explain this to one visitor who obviously wanted to discuss him with somebody.
 
Gigit said:
Order yourself a cup of conservation

The zoo is plugging its own coffee blend. I know I should change my scratchy old record, but it's a pet peeve of mine that having special coffee beans isn't enough. They need to train their constantly changing seasonal staff in how to actually make a cup of coffee. You can't always be lucky enough to be there at the same time as the few who do know that cappuccino and latte aren't the same drink in different sized cups, for instance.
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Credit where it's due - today my cappuccino was decorated with a chocolate sprinkle rhino (Rhino Day next weekend, I think) and the coffee was so frothy that it was still intact when it reached the bottom of the cup :)
 
.....they may have Black and White Rhinos soon...., umm, what else could replace the space left by Duchess and Gay other than Buffalo, Hippo or Eland/Kudu? Speculation yay!
 
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