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Chessington zoo have announced the death of Tonda a 15yr Rothschild who was born at Paignton.
 
Would Batak, the other Fota male, have been a genetic match for the remaining Paignton female? It seems a real logistics nightmare moving tigers around and having to keep one off show in a relatively small cage on rotation? I hope they get this sorted fairly quickly! Good news though that ‘moves’ are finally happening and my heart goes out to the people in the offices doing the endless paperwork to facilitate it all!
 
Paignton Zoo has created the world's first comprehensive scientific data Base for animal care, establishing the zoo as the global leader in conservation science and setting the gold standard for zoos worldwide. The six years collaboration with the university of Cambridge, analysed more than 27,000 research papers, creating a resource that will transform how endangered species are cared for in zoos worldwide. Instead of relying on traditional methods passed down through generations of keepers. Zoo staff can now make decisions based on proven scientific research. Personally, I think that this will be incredible for the future and should work well with the new zoo reforms.
 
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Strathmorezoo said:
Paignton Zoo has created the world's first comprehensive scientific data Base for animal care, establishing the zoo as the global leader in conservation science and setting the gold standard for zoos worldwide. The six years collaboration with the university of Cambridge, analysed more than 27,000 research papers, creating a resource that will transform how endangered species are cared for in zoos worldwide. Instead of relying on traditional methods passed down through generations of keepers. Zoo staff can now make decisions based on proven scientific research. Personally, I think that this will be incredible for the future and should work well with the new zoo reforms.
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Brilliant work, Paignton. Congratulations to all involved.
 
Hi, does anybody know how many Cassowary chicks the zoos male is currently rearing?
Thank you
 
TeaLovingDave said:
The animals in question are already on ZTL under this entry, and represent a currently-undescribed species:

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They have been at Paignton for some time and originally came from the vivarium at Manchester Museum, which imported a wild-caught group of them from Suriname about a decade ago. The signage lists them as A. spumarius due to the fact that this species has been historically used as a wastebasket-taxon for a complex of distinct species, both recently-described and still-undescribed. Atelopus spumarius in the strict sense is restricted to a small region of Peru.

Unfortunately, people keep incorrectly adding the sensu lato entry back onto ZTL - and it appears your post has led someone to do so again!
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Apparently the Herptile team at Paignton have found that the three remaining frogs are all genetically Atelopus spumarius.
 
TNT said:
Even though the VR isn't replacing animals, it's replacing a fantastic historical overview of the zoo. A real shame!
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The VR area is not significantly affecting the main Information Centre. The far-right corner, furthest from the entrance, has been slightly sectioned off for the headsets. I think they’ve integrated it quite well, and my concerns about the entire building being repurposed have certainly been eased.
 
JonWild said:
I definitely had the suspicion of a new male tiger had arrived at the zoo on my visit yesterday as the female tiger was pacing up and down trying to get into the house mostly all day.
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It says on the Paignton website that the current female tiger won’t be his companion and will be moved on in a few months as she has already contributed cubs so a new female will be arriving next year to start a new genetic bloodline of tigers.
 
Dr. Loxodonta said:
The VR area is not significantly affecting the main Information Centre. The far-right corner, furthest from the entrance, has been slightly sectioned off for the headsets. I think they’ve integrated it quite well, and my concerns about the entire building being repurposed have certainly been eased.
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That’s great to hear. It was such a high quality exhibition by the Graphics / Education / Interpretation Team that it would have been a shame to lose it.
 
Rosie183 said:
It says on the Paignton website that the current female tiger won’t be his companion and will be moved on in a few months as she has already contributed cubs so a new female will be arriving next year to start a new genetic bloodline of tigers.
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I thought their current female tiger was one of three young sisters who came to the UK (2 to PGN) from Denmark and so hadn’t bred.

Had they swapped these two with another recently? I thought just one of the sisters had moved on.
 
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