Perth Zoo Perth Zoo species

[Trua]

I've been to a few deer farms so I can say it does look like Red Deer. They look very similar to Wapiti Deer. Wapiti's have the darker heads.

It's not Marsh deer, they have darker legs. And male Barasingha develop thicker, darker coats too.

 

[steveroberts]

Hey @Jayden8763 , used software again to colourise Zoo news : 25 July 1947

Has beautiful Ranee in footage again (narrator mistakenly says 35 year old elephant when she was 44 at the time), an article about the arrival of some of the animals in the ship the Anatina include zebra (article mistakenly say mountain zebra, but @Zoofan15 with his amazing zebra history knowledge in thread mentioned Chapman's zebras came to the zoo in '47 who were the parents of Zeke 1.0 {born Nov '49}, another shortlived colt {b Mar '51}, Jimmy 1.0 {b Mar '52} a filly 0.1 whos names not known {b Oct 1953} the latter two ending up at Adelaide Zoo in '54 as Zoofan' found all this info and detailed here History of Australasia’s Zebra Population, and also Stanley/blue cranes, (Cape) crowned cranes and a handsome caracal is seen in the footage (well lots of you have seen the original b+w footage of anyway lol).

This article details the shipment in the video 'Animals from Africa arrive for Perth Zoo' - Kalgoorlie Miner (WA), Monday 9 June 1947, page 4 source Trove

Apparently Perth Zoo was the first zoo to have success with breeding crowned cranes 'Better Health at the Zoo' - West Australian (Perth, WA), Friday 23 January 1948, page 12 (Trove again)


*tbh thought seemed like Ranee had it a little rough with that device to burn hair off her and the mention of formerly using a lawn-mower to try remove her hair, and the casual use of the bullhook by the young lad, but perhaps am over-reacting a bit about.

 

[Jayden8763]

i wouldn't say over reacting because a lawnmower to shave an elephant....
yeah, I remember somewhere a while ago I heard in a comment or something about PerthIsOk's post with this footage someone mentioned that the elephant was being washed with beer, but at the time I believed it in a way because it was black and white footage and they played music over it so yeah (and btw you may think I'm getting confused with my own post from a while ago but I was just saying what I heard from it) but yeah still a lawnmower is crazy and I wouldn't say they got rid of it because Ranee was too ticklish.

 

[steveroberts]

(silent) Channel 7 black-and-white footage of the zoo following the fatal mauling of 18 year old Stephen Lloyd Hamilton-Lynch by the zoo's two polar bears on 23 April 1972. The footage itself here fortunately contains no graphic imagery of course, its the media going to the zoo perhaps an hour (more like several hours) after the incident. The two polar bears can be seen in some of the footage as is the fence/railing around their exhibit.

The State Library of Western Australia's (the source of archived footage) description summary of the footage states: ''Footage for report on death of a person at Perth Zoo. The man climbed into the polar bear enclosure after having altercations with other people at the Zoo. Video includes shots of Perth Zoo exterior; inside the Zoo; the polar bear enclosure; and reporter Dick Tombs and cameraman escorted out of the Zoo by police and the Perth Zoo curator, Jock Spence.'' (Am wondering the possibility if curator Jock Spence is either Tom Spence am pretty sure it is, the director of the zoo at the time or was perhaps a relative of his like a brother or cousin? but I think its his him). (brief tribute to Tom Spence here)

Channel 7 historical news collection. Segment 34/26. Man killed by polar bears at Perth Zoo (59 second footage)

watch footage colourised


source: State Library of Western Australia

 

[Zoofan15]

(silent) Channel 7 black-and-white footage of the zoo following the fatal mauling of 18 year old Stephen Lloyd Hamilton-Lynch by the zoo's two polar bears on 23 April 1972. The footage itself here fortunately contains no graphic imagery of course, its the media going to the zoo perhaps an hour (more like several hours) after the incident. The two polar bears can be seen in some of the footage as is the fence/railing around their exhibit. The State Library of Western Australia's description summary of the footage states: ''Footage for report on death of a person at Perth Zoo. The man climbed into the polar bear enclosure after having altercations with other people at the Zoo. Video includes shots of Perth Zoo exterior; inside the Zoo; the polar bear enclosure; and reporter Dick Tombs and cameraman escorted out of the Zoo by police and the Perth Zoo curator, Jock Spence.''

Segment 34/26. Man killed by polar bears at Perth Zoo (59 seconds footage)

I first read about this incident as a kid in A Tiger by the Tail, which briefly mentioned it in reference to a person’s desire to enter Auckland Zoo’s polar bear pit (the director talked her out of it).

There’s been a number of incidents across the region’s zoos of people entering exhibits and being killed or seriously injured, including a man entering Wellington Zoo’s tiger exhibit in 2003 (mauled, but survived); and a man entering Melbourne Zoo’s lion exhibit in 1989 (killed).

 

[steveroberts]

Another visit filmed by same family the Tappers & Gildersleeves.

Filmed just before or after this one from above:

 

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[steveroberts]

1.0 Alistair the 'African' lion
born at Perth Zoo: 31/01/1986
dam: Simbella (?-1989)
sire: Louie (?-1987) {Louie was also his grandsire}
died at Perth Zoo: 29/03/2007 {lived for 21 years, 1 months and 29 days}

source: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPece9OxIPYY4ZKzst3XVON5sfdYmB19p&si=BrwRpCs0E8oVGZ6o

 

[Zoofan15]

1.0 Alistair the 'African' lion
born Perth Zoo: 31/01/1986
dam: Simbella (?-1989)
sire: Louie (?-1987) {Louie was also his grandsire}
died Perth Zoo: 29/03/2007 {lived for 21 years, 1 months and 29 days}

Thanks for sharing @steveroberts. This is valuable information to have. Alistair certainly lived a long life!

Although prime aged females can have small litters, I wonder if Simbella was an older mother (since older mothers commonly have small litters) and it appears Alistair was a single cub. This would align with her dying just three years later in 1989 i.e. she had Alistair in 1986 at circa 12 years; and then died of natural causes in her mid-teens.

It’d be interesting to confirm Alistair was a single cub (no littermates who died as neonates) and his mother’s DOB.

 

[Jayden8763]

its crazy how much of a history that Perth Zoo has. ((edited) when i say that i was talking about the videos)

 

[steveroberts]

...source: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPece9OxIPYY4ZKzst3XVON5sfdYmB19p&si=BrwRpCs0E8oVGZ6o

January 1994

 

[steveroberts]

Trio of Sun conure now on display:

From socials:

It’s World Parrot Day! Let us introduce you to our newest birds on the block, a trio of Sun Conures.

These parrots are native to South America and are known for their beautiful plumage – just look at those colours!

It's great they have an exotic parrot species again (well exotic bird species in general) again now, it's been a couple of years now from what understand (and sun conures and blue-and-yellow macaws were the last prior exotic bird species).