Edinburgh Zoo What to do with "Mercedes"?

I'm sure she'd appreciate a new enclosure more when she's alive...
 
ha, exactly what I was thinking. I suppose most animals would rather have a new enclosure before they die than afterwards :p
 
Perhaps I have missed something? :confused:

What is Mercedes' age?

I favour the UK option with breeding companions for her. In view of the climate change crisis and human impaction on the Arctic habitat polar bears depend heavily upon, I think it imperative that the UK do its bit to strenghten captive polar bear breeding on your shores.

Speaking of opposition, the anti polar bear campaign has just had quite the opposite effect that one would desire. How are people in the UK going to care about polars bears or climate change and its effect on them if most people cannot even relate to polar bears in zoos (through Animal Planet documentaries ... just give me a break ... before I get any painful bouts of laughter that will have me require urgent medical intervention)! :rolleyes:
 
Actually, well-made documentaries can be more powerful than seeing a wild animal in a tame zoo environment. Just think of the polar bear footage in the Planet Earth "Ice Worlds" episode. How many hundreds of millions of people around the world saw that, and became aware of the polar bear's plight? Nothing about Mercedes' current situation would inspire the same response.
 
Quite a lot of people here in the UK like Whales and Dolphins despite never seeing one in captivity. I think we underestimate our modern capacity to empathise with animals we may never see.
 
now this may sound a bit mad and contreversial but ...

what i think should hapen is if they build a new exhibate for her why not keep her in the zoo and half the penguin pool at the bridge them adapt one half for her

wouldent think it would be to much work and let the pengins have the other half or even madder build a new penguin pool and have polar bares in the old one
 
but also i agree with the macquace(sp?) enclosure at HWP for mercades

i think it would look a little something like the one at the detoite zoo

heres a link to what it looks like
http://www.zoolex.org/zoolexcgi/view.py?id=779
and also somone mentiond leoprd at the HWP im presuming they will be snow leopards

but where is there exhibate going / is it in the old carabu exhibit with all the cliffs i remember the ares having 3 padocks noxt to eachother one of them i think would suit a snow leopard well
 
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hwp are getting amur leopards but i would imagine they have plans for snow leopards in the future
 
Very intresting good to see the Amur Tigers have had an impact on visitor numbers its a great park and deserves to be seen by more people.
 
zoogiraffe said:
Very intresting good to see the Amur Tigers have had an impact on visitor numbers its a great park and deserves to be seen by more people.
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It just goes to show that if you stock a place with high-profile species, people will go out of their way to see them....
 
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