Personal Records/Notes of Zoo Visits

[bongorob]

I used to make notes of what Chester had on show in the 1970s. At that time the zoo map had each enclosure numbered so my format was something like

2 blue peafowl
3 wapiti
4 lesser panda
5 flight aviary
little masked weaver
red-cheeked cordon-bleu
java sparrow

5 south aviaries
Derbyan parakeet
green singing finch

5 owl aviaries
spectacled owl
great horned owl
vermiculated fishing owl
quaker parakeet

11
brown bear
Asian black bear

I noted the changes on each visit and kept these notes from about 1972-1985. I threw them away, never thinking they would be of use.

I had a list of the Chester orangs on my old PC, when I purchased a new one last March I saved all my files successfully, apart from one. You've guessed it. The Chester zoo files. I haven't got round to doing it again.

Chester Zoo News Autumn 1983 contained a family tree of the current orangs, and there was another version in the late 1990s, can't remember when and I haven't looked for it yet.


Orang utan relationships up until 2002 can be found here.

http://library.sandiegozoo.org/studbooks/primates/orangutan2002.pdf

 

[Javan Rhino]

I used to make notes of what Chester had on show in the 1970s. At that time the zoo map had each enclosure numbered so my format was something like

2 blue peafowl
3 wapiti
4 lesser panda
5 flight aviary
little masked weaver
red-cheeked cordon-bleu
java sparrow

5 south aviaries
Derbyan parakeet
green singing finch

5 owl aviaries
spectacled owl
great horned owl
vermiculated fishing owl
quaker parakeet

11
brown bear
Asian black bear

I noted the changes on each visit and kept these notes from about 1972-1985. I threw them away, never thinking they would be of use.

I had a list of the Chester orangs on my old PC, when I purchased a new one last March I saved all my files successfully, apart from one. You've guessed it. The Chester zoo files. I haven't got round to doing it again.

Chester Zoo News Autumn 1983 contained a family tree of the current orangs, and there was another version in the late 1990s, can't remember when and I haven't looked for it yet.


Orang utan relationships up until 2002 can be found here.

http://library.sandiegozoo.org/studbooks/primates/orangutan2002.pdf

Thanks for this link Bongorob - spent ages this evening tracing Chester's orangs through there (much to AG's annoyance ). Suprised that Puluh arrived in the late 90's - he's been there for longer than I thought

 

[OrangePerson]

Has anyone got any idea why Martha (Chester's Bornean female) took two trips of a few months in length to London in the 80s?

 

[Javan Rhino]

Has anyone got any idea why Martha (Chester's Bornean female) took two trips of a few months in length to London in the 80s?

We wondered that when reading but just concluded it may have been a breeding loan? If this is the case, was it successful?

 

[bongorob]

We wondered that when reading but just concluded it may have been a breeding loan? If this is the case, was it successful?

It was to try and get her pregnant by a London male. Didn't seem to work because her baby Sarikei born 1983 is listed as being Dennis's son. She went again in 1987/88 but the only birth in 1989 was to Anak and Lola, the female Punda.