Small Zoos

[zooman]

Have just read about RSCC and Sheldon.

I would enjoy hearing reviews of these and other zoos on ?? lets say 5 acres! Seems to small to me!! Do they offer on site car parking?

 

[PAT]

The thing that impresses me about these small zoos is that most, if not all of the exhibits are of a high quality because they are so small. One of the most famous examples is Central Park Zoo.

 

[Bele]

The RSCC has an amazing collection of unusual species though their accommodation is not always spacious . I visited Summer 2007 when there was a lot of construction work going on . Unusually , it is importing species direct from S.E. Asian rescue centres , I would like to see more collections doing this . These include sun bears , smooth-coated otters , pileated and white-cheeked gibbons . Also a variety of lemurs , fossas , clouded and snow leopards , Malayan tapir , tamandua , Owston's palm civet , 2 species of crowned pigeon and many others

 

[James27]

Shaldon zoo has a big car park opposite it which can be used for the zoo. It's an acre in size, but it's expanding into the adjacent woodland, not sure when this is going to be completed though.
When I went in 2007, they had Slow loris and pygmy loris, tree shrews, pygmy marmosets, gundi, ring tailed, black and white ruffed, gentle and red ruffed lemurs, red titi's, silvery marmosets, golden, pied, and golden headed lion tamarins, ocelots, yellow breasted capuchin, scarlet macaws, kookaburra, bobook owls, dusky loris, agoutis, meerkats, cusimanses, brush tailed porcupine and potoroo.
Most the enclosures were average sized, and well furnished. However the single dusky lori was in a tiny little cage behind the lemurs, and the ocelot cage is pretty pitiful.
However, I think they are mainly improving the enclosures they have by expanding into the woodland, as opposed to getting lots of new species.