Species at Regent's Park and Whipsnade

[Bib Fortuna]

I'm looking for Information to a female black Rhino,"Saya" arrived at Whipsnade in 2003.

What happend to her ? Has she died there or was she send to another zoo ?

Are there any Information about Gerenuks at London Zoo,maybe kept in the 30ty or 60ty years ? I know only about that species at Bristol and Manchester in the Uk.

 

[pipaluk]

I'm looking for Information to a female black Rhino,"Saya" arrived at Whipsnade in 2003.

What happend to her ? Has she died there or was she send to another zoo ?

Are there any Information about Gerenuks at London Zoo,maybe kept in the 30ty or 60ty years ? I know only about that species at Bristol and Manchester in the Uk.

Saya died at Whipsnade in 2005(?), the male Quinto was moved in December of that year, as he was then the zoo's only black rhino.

 

[Tim May]

Are there any Information about Gerenuks at London Zoo,maybe kept in the 30ty or 60ty years ? I know only about that species at Bristol and Manchester in the Uk.

London Zoo acquired its first two gerenuks in 1954; the Zoological Society of London Annual Report for that year lists gerenuk as a species new to the collection. According to the "Zoo Life" magazine for Autumn 1954 the gerenuk were part of a consignment of animals brought back from Africa by John Seago and Reginald Bloom.

The ZSL Annual Report for 1956 lists the arrival of another gerenuk at London Zoo that year; Crandall records that this specimen arrived at London Zoo on 31st July 1956 and died on 12th January 1961.

 

[IanRRobinson]

Do you remember any of these animals, Tim? I know you have a phenomenal memory of your early visits to London!

 

[Tim May]

Do you remember any of these animals, Tim? I know you have a phenomenal memory of your early visits to London!

I have many vivid childhood memories of London Zoo from the late 1950s /early 1960s but to my great regret I have no recollection of seeing gerenuk there. I was only a very young child when the last London animal died and, although I must have seen it, I’m sorry to say it didn’t register with me.

I have seen gerenuk at several collections in the USA but apart from London Zoo, which frustratingly I cannot remember, I’ve never seen them in Europe. Hopefully it won’t be too long before I see them in Berlin Tierpark though.

 

[Bib Fortuna]

@Tim May.

Thank you Tim for this highly interesting Information, because Frankfurt Zoo said and wrote in diffrent books , they had imported the first Gerenuks to europe via Hannover in 1956.

Or is it possible, the 1954 animals at London Zoo didn't survive and died shortly after their Arrival at the Zoo ?

 

[Bib Fortuna]

@Tim may

Are there any Information about the gender of the three Gerenuks ?

 

[Chlidonias]

@Tim May.

Thank you Tim for this highly interesting Information, because Frankfurt Zoo said and wrote in diffrent books , they had imported the first Gerenuks to europe via Hannover in 1956.

Or is it possible, the 1954 animals at London Zoo didn't survive and died shortly after their Arrival at the Zoo ?

I suspect for Frankfurt "first" means in mainland Europe. Apart for London, Belle Vue Zoo in Manchester (in the UK) got a male gerenuk in 1954 and another male in 1956, which both lived till 1957.

 

[Bib Fortuna]

Thank you, Chlidonias.

What about Gerenuks at Bristol ? I've found only a Picture of a female imported in 1956 in the book,was this the only Gerenuk at this place, and how long she has lived there ?

@Tim May.

Where has London kept the Gerenuks ? Maybe in the Gazelle Sheds ?

 

[Tim May]

@Tim May.
Thank you Tim for this highly interesting Information, because Frankfurt Zoo said and wrote in diffrent books , they had imported the first Gerenuks to europe via Hannover in 1956.
Or is it possible, the 1954 animals at London Zoo didn't survive and died shortly after their Arrival at the Zoo ?

Off-hand, I really don’t know for how long the gerenuks that arrived at London Zoo in 1954 lived. However, neither of them reached a great age, as I believe that the animal that arrived in July 1956 and died in January 1961 lived longer than either of the earlier specimens.

@Tim may
Are there any Information about the gender of the three Gerenuks ?

According to the book British Zoos (Geoffroy Schomberg; 1957) the gerenuks London Zoo received in 1954 were a pair. The ZSL Annual Report for 1954 includes a photograph of one of these gerenuk; the animal illustrated has horns so is clearly the male.

I don’t know the sex of the specimen that arrived in 1956.

@Tim May.
Where has London kept the Gerenuks ? Maybe in the Gazelle Sheds ?

I assume that the gerenuk were either housed in the old Gazelle Sheds or the old Antelope House.

 

[Tim May]

@Tim May.

Thank you Tim for this highly interesting Information, because Frankfurt Zoo said and wrote in diffrent books , they had imported the first Gerenuks to europe via Hannover in 1956.

Belle Vue (Manchester) acquired its first gerenuk, a male, in 1948.