Tayto Park Tayto Park news

Pertinax said:
I had to laugh when I found out 'Tayto' is derived from 'Potato' and is some sort of advert for crisps? A name change sounds good here...
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Tayto is the largest crisp company in Ireland and ad far as I know invented the flavoured crisp. The ownership of the crisp company got sold to a foreign company so Tayto no longer had anything to do with the park so the name change has been due to come for about a year now I believe. Also if you haven’t had a Tayto product before buy the first packet you see!
 
The Knowsley Safari Park thread reports that 14-year-old female Amur Tiger Bira moved to Ireland in August, can any regular visitors confirm the date she arrived? I think if she is introduced to Khan it will be for compansionship and ease of management rather than breeding, given their ages and that he is not a pure-bred Amur.
 
The new tiger was on site in early October, but was not on show. The park has made no announcement as yet, that I know of, re the arrival.
I would be surprised if they bred the tigers, but they do plan to try to breed the amur leopards.
 
I visited the park this morning for the first time since the rebrand. There did not seem to be any new species in the zoo part (at least, no new species of particular interest to me), but I saw that there was new signage throughout the park to reflect the name change, and the only trace of Tayto I could see was a few boxes with Tayto crisp packets in the restaurant and ice cream stand.

Needless to say, I enjoyed seeing all the animals as usual, and I will upload some photos into the gallery in a while.

EDIT: Should this thread be renamed 'Emerald Park news' now that the park is no longer called Tayto Park?
 
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Visited today - interesting collection in a range of good to poor enclosures. The theme park side seems to be getting a lot more investment than the zoo. I've requested for the name to be changed on here multiple times but my requests seem to have been ignored.

Saw my very first Tayras, both individuals were very active outside. The outdoor enclosure is barely visible due to bushes and wooden paneling. The pair could definitely use a bigger enclosure. Corsac Foxes were also a first for me, a large and active group. One was very interested in me at the viewing window.

Saw most species - wished I had caught the bird of prey display. Bush dogs seemed to have a younger individual with them. I counted at least 4 European Lynxes, the enclosure felt rather overcrowded.

Zootierliste needs some updating... Didn't see any sign of Kirk's Dik Dik, Coati, Striped Skunk, Red-necked Wallaby or Bison (none of these were signed either). One enclosure which was signed as Racoons was empty, with the Raccoons in another enclosure. Will upload some photos when I'm back home.
 
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