Blackpool Zoo Visit to Blackpool zoo.

[taun]

Am going up to blackpool zoo on Saturday, this will be my first visit there. Can anyone suggest anything thats a must see there? As therie website is not the best.

They have some high profile animals, but do they have any unusually worth seeing animals there?

 

[James27]

I think they have recently got Aardvarks, they'll be worth seeing. Can you try and get some photos of the new Giraffe exhibit please?

 

[taun]

I think they have recently got Aardvarks, they'll be worth seeing. Can you try and get some photos of the new Giraffe exhibit please?

I yes, they wuld be a first time viewing. Thanks Ashley-h.

I will try, my daughter loves giraffes, so I doubt i will getaway from not seeing them

 

[gentle lemur]

My personal favourites include the first animal you'll probably see - Darwin the giant tortoise, who may be a Seychelles tortoise - which is as rare as any species on Earth.
Don't miss the dwarf mouse lemurs in the monkey house and the flock of roseate cockatoos (galahs) next door.

Alan

 

[foz]

dont bristol have dwarf mouse lemurs too? or is it grey mouse lemur? (is there reallly any difference )

 

[taun]

Thanks Gentle Lemur

 

[kiang]

I believe that Blackpool also have large groups of red titi and ground cuscus too

 

[taun]

I believe that Blackpool also have large groups of red titi and ground cuscus too

Thanks Kiang,

I had to google those to find out what they were!!

 

[bongorob]

Blackpool kept these species at the beginning of the year. Add giraffes and aarvarks.

AMPHIBIANS
grey tiger salamander
Oriental fire-bellied toad
European yellow-bellied toad
White's tree frog
black and gold poison arrow frog
yellow-banded poison arrow frog

REPTILES
West African mud turtle
Horsfield's tortoise
Aldabra giant tortoise
Seychelles giant grazing tortoise
African spurred tortoise
Bell's hinge-backed tortoise
Home's hinge-backed tortoise
leopard tortoise
Hermann's tortoise
Yacare caiman
leopard gecko
Standing's day gecko
Philippines sailfin lizard
common bearded lizard
dabb lizard
veiled chameleon
Utilla island spiny-tailed iguana
Hispaniolan rhinoceros iguana
prehensile-tailed skink
common blue-tongued skink
nile monitor
common boa
Jamaican boa
green anaconda
sanzinia boa
Burmese python
royal python
reticulated python
Sinaloan milk snake
corn snake
eastern diamondback rattlesnake

BIRDS
South African ostrich
common rhea
emu
eastern white pelican
little egret
black-crowned night heron
hammerkop
western white stork
sacred ibis
waldrapp ibis
American white ibis
scarlet ibis
African spoonbill
rosy flamingo
fulvous whistling duck
black swan
black-necked swan
coscoroba swan
greylag goose
bar-headed goose
emperor goose
Hawaiian goose
barnacle goose
red-breasted goose
greater Magellan goose
ashy-headed goose
ruddy shelduck
European shelduck
ringed teal
Chilean teal
Indian runner duck
red-crested pochard
rosy-billed pochard
European eider
hooded merganser
northern helmeted curassow
black curassow
quail colinus species
northern bob-white Quail
European Quail
Lady Amherst's pheasant
blue peafowl
East African crowned crane
demoiselle crane
European crane
red-crowned crane
speckled pigeon
crested pigeon
green imperial pigeon
chestnut-naped imperial pigeon
western roseate cockatoo
western slender-billed cockatoo
Ducorp's cockatoo
kea parrot
budgerigar
black-cheeked loVebird
African grey parrot
timneh grey parrot
blue and yellow macaw
green-winged macaw
red-fronted macaw
Amazon red-shouldered macaw
blue-throated conure
green-cheeked Amazon parrot
white-cheeked turaco
white-browed coucal
great grey owl
laughing kookaburra
lilac-breasted roller
Von der Decken's hornbill
toco toucan
Java sparrow

MAMMALS
grey ground cuscus
long-nosed potoroo
agile wallaby
western grey kangaroo
western wallaroo
red kangaroo
Belanger's tree shrew
common tree shrew
grey mouse lemur
ring-tailed lemur
red ruffed lemur
red-fronted lemur
Colombian black spider monkey
red-faced spider monkey hybrid
Paraguayan black Howler
white-faced saki
red titi
green squirrel monkey
goeldi's monkey
white-chinned emperor tamarin
cotton-topped tamarin
geoffroy's marmoset
silvery marmoset
pygmy marmoset
de Brazza guenon
king colobus
pileated gibbon
Bornean orang utan
western lowland gorilla
western red panda
asian small-clawed otter
dwarf mongoose
meerkat
Amur tiger
lion
Californian sealion
Indian elephant
donkey
miniature donkey
Hartmann's mountain zebra
South American tapir
kune kune Pig
red river Hog
llama
vicuna
Bactrian camel
reeves' muntjac
reindeer
western sitatunga
eastern bongo
zebu
Arabian mountain gazelle
domestic goat
turkmenian markhor
Siberian chipmunk
Prevost's squirrel
water vole
Canadian porcupine
capybara
Central American agouti


Foz the Bristol lemurs and the Blackpool lemurs are the same species.

 

[taun]

Thanks Bongorob,

I thought I had seen dwarf mouse lemurs somewhere else!

 

[foz]

thanks for that, i'm suprised blackpool keep these lemurs.

 

[zoogiraffe]

thanks for that, i'm suprised blackpool keep these lemurs.

They took them on when most other zoo`s in the U.K didn`t want to keep them any more.