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Maguari

Maguari

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Doesn't appear we have a thread for this oddly-named zoo as yet so thought I'd start one - I just uploaded photos from a visit in June this year to the gallery: Spaycific'Zoo | ZooChat

A place with perhaps more potential than polish but some really great animals and certain enclosures (the large walkthrough aviary and the mixed Canadian small mammals/waterfowl in particular) are excellent.
 
I kept wanting to post on one of the photos, "what's with the name of the zoo?", but this is a better place.

Any idea on where the name comes from or what it means?
 
Chlidonias said:
I kept wanting to post on one of the photos, "what's with the name of the zoo?", but this is a better place.

Any idea on where the name comes from or what it means?
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The town in which the zoo is found is called Spay. The French word "spécifique" - pronounced as in the name of the zoo - means "specific", but whether the zoo's name is a rather baffling pun on that, I don't know.
 
The Zoo buid a new enclosure but did not indicate the futur species who will be in.



Looks like for a small cat but the zoo has already : bobcats, servals, geoffroy's cats, jaguarondis and leopard cats !
 
Antoine said:
The Zoo buid a new enclosure but did not indicate the futur species who will be in.

Looks like for a small cat but the zoo has already : bobcats, servals, geoffroy's cats, jaguarondis and leopard cats !
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So the new enclosure is for bobcats. There previous enclosure will welcome two pallas cats brothers (born in Lyon/Parc de la Tête d'Or) arrived last month.

The group of white-fronted lemurs will leave the zoo cause of neighbourhood problems with other lemurs.

Also, births of dingos, ring-tailed lemurs and kea :)
 
A little bit old but some births of the year :
- two geoffroy's cat last august 14th,
- a southern three banded armadillo,
- some sugar gliders,
- some capybaras,
- a tokay gecko,
- a beadred dragon.
 
The Zoo is now home to two new squirrel species presentes as unique in France (for one it's sure) :
- red and white giant flying squirrel,
- a species presented as "Myanmar squirrel" which I do not identify (maybe Finlayson's squirrel).
The animals come from seizure.
 
Antoine said:
The Zoo is now home to two new squirrel species presentes as unique in France (for one it's sure) :
- red and white giant flying squirrel,
- a species presented as "Myanmar squirrel" which I do not identify (maybe Finlayson's squirrel).
The animals come from seizure.
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The second one is the subspecies which Zootierliste (and presumably the zoos which hold them) refer to as "Pegu Red Squirrel Callosciurus finlaysonii ferrugineus" (which is from Myanmar) - the colouration is not at all a match for that subspecies and appears to have been originally given as a "best guess" and then just retained for want of something better.
 
Some recent births that I missed to report before :
- three capybaras,
- collared peccaries,
- 17 emperor scorpions,
- red-billed quelea,
- three Geoffroy's cat.

And the zoo will welcome a new species this year with sitatungas (even the picture shows a lowland nyala :D).

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In this audio article it is indicated that the small zoo will double in size (from 3 to 6 hectares) in the next years. For this year the zoo will opened a new children farm and welcome new species : Chacoan maras, white-nosed coatis (before it had brown-nosed) and swinhoe's stripped squirrels.

Spay. Le Spaycific'zoo s'agrandit

Antoine said:
And the zoo will welcome a new species this year with sitatungas (even the picture shows a lowland nyala :D).

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The sitatungas are three.
 
 
 
Prague zoo received their 1.0 manul in February this year. I guess that leaves Spaycific zoo with only its brother or did it receive a female meanwhile?
 
Jana said:
Prague zoo received their 1.0 manul in February this year. I guess that leaves Spaycific zoo with only its brother or did it receive a female meanwhile?
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The brother left for Krakow Zoo at the same time for breeding reason. For the moment, there is no longer manul in Spay.
 
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