Zoo hoarding (billboard) spotting

gentle lemur

gentle lemur

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I was driving down the M5 today, minding my own business, when I spotted a huge Chester Zoo poster on a hoarding (billboard in American English) beside the motorway just before Junction 2 - featuring a T rex and the 'Dinosaurs Bite Back' slogan. Interestingly it is only visible from the southbound carriageway, heading away from Chester. Of course this is the Junction that visitors to Dudley Zoo will use if they approach from the north; in addition Junction 3, a couple of miles further south, could be used by visitors to West Midlands Safari Park. When I checked the distances on the RAC website, this hoarding is 81 miles away from Chester Zoo following the fastest route.
Has anyone else spotted Chester Zoo posters beside routes to other zoos? Is this a world record for the hoarding site furthest away from the zoo concerned?
This could become a new game for ZooChatters touring the world :)

Alan
 
Not quite the same but I've picked up a leaflets for Longleat in both Louth (minimum 231 miles per google maps) and Colchester (180 miles).
 
Chester billboard featuring a tiger on the M6 Northbound (well, Westbound really at that point) at the top of the M6 not far from the M5 junction. Spotted yesterday.
 
Don't know if there was a poster or anything, but there was one of the model rhinos on the concourse at Euston station in conjunction with the rhino mania event in 2010. Euston to Chester by the shortest rail route is 179 miles.
 
Maisie said:
Chester billboard featuring a tiger on the M6 Northbound (well, Westbound really at that point) at the top of the M6 not far from the M5 junction. Spotted yesterday.
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Well done! I saw it myself today, just by Junction 9. Distance to Chester Zoo approximately 70 miles.
There must be more!

Alan
 
I've only seen one for Beardsley. I had the picture on the upper left corner of their website (Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo) and read something like "the wild is closer than you think" or something along those lines.

I might've seen one for an aquarium once in Pittsburgh. I thought it said Adventure Aquarium but that's in New Jersey. It had a bunch of sharks on it though.

~Thylo:cool:
 
Colchester zoo used to have big billboards along the A12 at Witham, but that's only 15 miles or so from the zoo I don't know if they still use the site as I go in and out of the town a different way now, if they do I'll try and get a photo.

I seam to have seen that "The Wild is closer than you think" slogan before, may be it's not only exhibit designs zoo's copy.
 
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