The Only Ones In Britain

Interesting......

If breeding goes well Gaur could be our next 'trendy' species in UK zoos??;)
 
Asian wild cattle have become more and more popular in our collections since London brought in anoa and Port Lypmne brought in banteng.
It will be good to see a viable population of gaur in Britain, with the likes of London having kept them for many years and Howletts and Port Lympne for many years trying to build up a herd with no long term success.
 
Newzooboy said:
I think it more likely that this male with eventually go to another UK collection and a female will be imported to there.....

Would guess at Edindurgh or Chester....
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This calf at Whipsnade must be the first successful birth of this species for a long time anywhere in UK. I believe the same pair had an unsuccessful birth last year?

How often- if at all- have Gaur been bred in Uk before this? Anyone?
 
London was successful with them in the late eighties and port lympne had a few calves too, but their breeding stopped with the death of the female.
 
bongorob said:
Dudley did take the bears from Glasgow.
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That is correct, we sent the two asiatic bears onto Dudley. The other we had we euthanased, one due to severe old age and a heart murmer, the other which had terminal cancer. However, after going through the records from Dudley and ourselves as to who originaly owned the bears...this was ourselves but even then, the records were thin to say the least.
 
^Chris^ said:
Plenty of other places have tamandua but I had a look on ISIS and apparently Amazon Adventure have a unique subspecies. It may be a case that other UK collections keeping the species keep this ssp but just don't know/or list it as being.

Are Chester's Galapagos Tortoise the only in the country?
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colchester have southern tamandua to!
the rare spieces conservation center (rscc) also keep a sunbear cub
london-humming birds
whipsnade-Guar
the list just goes on and on!!!!!
 
bears are at heythrop
i would like to see more dromidarys at wmsp
gaur may be a great spices for safari parks to look into, aswell as giant eland and prehaps more to keep banteng

to me, west midlands is looking into a good future, with hopfully a few more speices, it definitly has a bright future

himilayan what, i disn't no marwell had anything like that (i have been to marwell since I was a baby) where is it kept, where did it come from
 
The Himalayan Crocodile Newts arrived in 2006 and can be found in the takin house.
 
Sun Bears

The Rare Species Conservation Centre at Sandwich,Kent also have Malayan Sun Bears now. They are two youngsters imported from a rescue centre. Belfasts pair are Victor and Bora. There is another Polar Bear in the U.k. at Heythrop, private Zoo in Oxfordshire. Zupu.
 
kiang said:
Asian wild cattle have become more and more popular in our collections since London brought in anoa and Port Lypmne brought in banteng.
It will be good to see a viable population of gaur in Britain, with the likes of London having kept them for many years and Howletts and Port Lympne for many years trying to build up a herd with no long term success.
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I wouldn't agree currently. The assam water buffalo herd at Port Lympne is down to maybe six animals, breeding has virtually ceased, and there are no longer any at Howletts. The other water buffalo in the UK are not related to these animals, and are domestic stock.

A question about water buffalo......why do the feral water buffalo populations of south america resemble african buffalo more than the asian species/domestic stock?

There are hardly any banteng left at PL despite a breeding herd of 10 about 5 years ago, although WMSP has a small group.

The only collection that has done well with gaur in recent decades was London, on what was about half of the current okapi paddock. I suspect the remnants of this group are the ones at Whipsnade. Gaur will not be popping up across the UK as the declining gene pool means globally captive gaur are in decline.

Even Anoa are now starting to decrease in number. Only one collection is currently (last couple of years) breeding them.
 
johnstoni said:
I wouldn't agree currently. The assam water buffalo herd at Port Lympne is down to maybe six animals, breeding has virtually ceased, and there are no longer any at Howletts. The other water buffalo in the UK are not related to these animals, and are domestic stock.

A question about water buffalo......why do the feral water buffalo populations of south america resemble african buffalo more than the asian species/domestic stock?

There are hardly any banteng left at PL despite a breeding herd of 10 about 5 years ago, although WMSP has a small group.

The only collection that has done well with gaur in recent decades was London, on what was about half of the current okapi paddock. I suspect the remnants of this group are the ones at Whipsnade. Gaur will not be popping up across the UK as the declining gene pool means globally captive gaur are in decline.

Even Anoa are now starting to decrease in number. Only one collection is currently (last couple of years) breeding them.
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Johnstoni you paint quite a depressing picture there of wild cattle in the UK.
It is sad to see the water buffalo at Port Lympne dwindle away, especially as they are so rare in their homeland, probably one of the rarest in the world, and these would be the only truly wild water buffalo, outside of India.
There would be no chance of importing fresh blood into this group.

The banteng again started off at PL, but now again in decline there, seems the safari parks are the only saviours for the banteng now, in the UK anyway.

The gaur down to mother and son at Whipsnade does not bode well for the species here, unless they can import a male from Europe, but as Johnstoni says the European group is in a poor way too.
There was talk this time last year of Edinburgh importing a pair from Madrid i think, but as yet it has come to nothing, blue tongue the main culprit.

Anoa i think are the saddest case, with such a large holding at one time, London, Chester, Marwell, Edinburgh, Whipsnade, Port Lympne, Paignton all holding and the majority breeding, and now it is all slowing down, with a lot of non-reproductive pairs, and a few zoos moving their anoas out, some are kept singly at safari parks .

Things are not looking good:(
 
kiang said:
Anoa i think are the saddest case, with such a large holding at one time, London, Chester, Marwell, Edinburgh, Whipsnade, Port Lympne, Paignton all holding and the majority breeding, and now it is all slowing down, with a lot of non-reproductive pairs, and a few zoos moving their anoas out, some are kept singly at safari parks .

Things are not looking good:(
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Quite agree, Anoa will be a big loss. The blue tongue is really effected the movement of most of the wild cattle species. Shame a few more safari parks on board and the UK could keep most of the cattlethat are being phased out.
 
The Galloway Wildlife Conservation Park in Scotland has bred a couple of anoa from their pair in recent years , according to their web-site .
 
Regarding the Heythrop Bears , the female Polar Bear is called Zara and she came from a german circus owner friend of Jim Clubbs. She lived with two old Asiatic / Himalayan Black Bears , one of which has since died. Jim also has a brown Bear though I dont think it lives with the others in his superb bear enclosure. He has kept and BRED Striped Hyeanas for some time now. The Colchester Spotted Hyeana which is the only one in the u.k. has been on the Biaza surplus zoo list for along time and the animal is extremely old so unlikely to leave Colchester Zoo. Zupu.
 
Time for an update, with a few new species arriving recently

Paignton zoo - oriental white stork
Port Lympne - brown hyena
Newquay zoo - white tailed gnu and common paca (perhaps?)
National seal sanctuary - hooded seal
Jersey zoo - Madagascan crested ibis
Highland wildlife park - Japanese serow
Cotswold WP - African open billed stork

anymore anyone?
 
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