I do like your posts, you make me chuckle!
Thank-you. The Newquay Zoo ruler was nice and handy, in the dining table drawer.
West Country Peregrinations
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Thank-you. The Newquay Zoo ruler was nice and handy, in the dining table drawer.
Gigit
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I'm still hoping to find out, but it does seem the logical conclusion if they were all around in 2004 and before.
Gigit
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Gigit
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".......five go-old rings, four Caucasian Tur, three Barbary Sheep, two Takin Bros, and a ........"
Here are two of the three Barbary Sheep with the Tur:
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"... our fine old monotreme"
I know he's at the other end of the Zoo, but you can't leave him out
Alan
Shame if they are getting the boot, or rather the hoof!
Though I suppose they could then concentrate on the Tur, if that is the plan ?
(When I get time, I will find that photo of the "other" Barbary Sheep enclosure I was also talking about from past years , which probably led to some confusion.)
Here it is at last, I am not going mad! Dated 1994.
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Gigit
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I can't work out where this was. Can you remember?
That is what I call a mountain.
Looking at a map it was where Jungle Fun is now, underneath the Education Centre and opposite the present rhino house.
It was opposite the Rhinos I am sure.
Jackwow
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I'm very glad I stumbled on this thread as, stuck here in Jordan at the moment, I'm working on a cunning plan to get out by the end of September and then do a zoo trip across the south of England, i.e., from Canterbury to Bristol. I have collated a list of all the zoos/wildlife parks in this part of England and, as obviously I can't visit them all, I was going through the list deleting those that I don't think I will want to visit. So thanks Shorts for your reviews in your OP as that has helped me greatly in deciding what to visit in SW England.
Glad to be of some assistance. Whenever I holiday in the West Country it's always a matter of deciding which collections to leave out.
I hope you enjoy your visits.
It was quite a good- sized "mountain" in an otherwise tiny enclosure.
I believe this featured on one of those original Paignton Zoo programmes, that I can`t remember the name of, when they had to catch the Barbary Sheep up, again for some reason that I can`t remember.......er.....who am I......????????
Gigit
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'The Zoo Keepers'?
That`s it.
Ah, I'd thought they were catching them up in the old Giraffe exhibit, but they must have been doing it to move them from this one into that one. That would be logical as the first series did feature the Elephants being walked to the new house and the bit where the Giraffes were being moved and their keeper had a cold must have been in the first series too. "The Zoo Keepers" remains my favourite ever zoo reality programme even though there was a bit of a continuity issue when Humphrey the camel was euthanised (I am sure a well-known Paignton keeper had not paused for a hair cut when he was supposed to be rushing to the Camel House).