Zoogiraffes tongue in cheek look forward to 2013

Dublin zoo will exhibit a new (to dublin) species of animal? mammal,bird, reptile or even an invert. Apart from additions to existing groups no new species have arrived for 6 or 7 years! Asian lions dont count as they look identical to africans. Formerly rumoured species to consider include okapi, pygmy hippo, dik dik. some exotic wildfowl to join the mallard hordes on the huge lakes?
 
I'm always suggesting polar bears for Whipsnade, so if that prediction came true it would be dreamland for me!
Pandas for London again would be great too, however unlikely that may be!
Twycross- i hope you're wrong re: elephants, that would be a disaster for the zoo as i've said before, also shame if hyaena & malayan tapir left, though i guess latter quite likely!
A group of bonobo to Marwell, no complaints from me.
Sun Bears for Linton would be good, i suspect if that happened they'd go in the older lion enclosure and a new lion enclosure built on the large unused paddock- though maybe that's where Twycross's elephants are headed.
 
pipaluk said:
Twycross- i hope you're wrong re: elephants, that would be a disaster for the zoo as i've said before, also shame if hyaena & malayan tapir left, though i guess latter quite likely!
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Agree it's a great shame if the Hyena & Malayan Tapir left but, given how little they show (and that the tapirs are, I believe, in a largely forgotten & unvisited corner), I don't think their absence would have much impact on the average visitor.

The Elephants would be a different matter......
 
dublinlion said:
Dublin zoo will exhibit a new (to dublin) species of animal? mammal,bird, reptile or even an invert. Apart from additions to existing groups no new species have arrived for 6 or 7 years! Asian lions dont count as they look identical to africans. Formerly rumoured species to consider include okapi, pygmy hippo, dik dik. some exotic wildfowl to join the mallard hordes on the huge lakes?
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Just a quick point but last time checked Dublin was in Southern Ireland and not the United Kingdom,so why not move this to the correct,part of the forum and keep this thread to United Kingdom collections,which is why I posted it in the United Kingdom part of the forum and not the general forum!!!
 
Shorts said:
Agree it's a great shame if the Hyena & Malayan Tapir left but, given how little they show (and that the tapirs are, I believe, in a largely forgotten & unvisited corner), I don't think their absence would have much impact on the average visitor.

The Elephants would be a different matter......
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Absolutely, this zoo has lossed enough popular animals in recent times, without next loosing perhaps the most popular of all. I cannot think of a good reason why they should leave, my only criticism is the fact there is no bull on site, which could be remedied when finances permit, I have not heard of any official suggestion that the elephants could be leaving to go to Noah's Ark or anywhere else, in fact, if I had my way, there would be another elephant coming to Twycross, Karishma, who I did not think should ever have left Twycross in the first place, the reason given at the time was that she was becoming difficult to handle, well since they have gone to the great expense of going over to protected contact recently, this problem no longer exists, we would of coarse have to wait until her young bull calf is also old enough to be moved on to another collection.
 
zoogiraffe said:
Just a quick point but last time checked Dublin was in Southern Ireland and not the United Kingdom,so why not move this to the correct,part of the forum and keep this thread to United Kingdom collections,which is why I posted it in the United Kingdom part of the forum and not the general forum!!!
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Oh, do calm down, zg. It's hardly ruining the thread to include Dublin in it!

(Ireland doesn't have enough zoos to drag this off course if we included all of them!)
 
Shorts said:
Agree it's a great shame if the Hyena & Malayan Tapir left but, given how little they show (and that the tapirs are, I believe, in a largely forgotten & unvisited corner), I don't think their absence would have much impact on the average visitor.

The Elephants would be a different matter......
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As a SPECIES - probably (although WMSP, Whipsnade and Woburn are all within striking distance of Twycross by motorway).

As INDIVIDUALS - a different story, I'd suggest. If the Twycross cows were divided up between Chester and Whipsnade they would be much more likely to breed, given that I think we can safely say that the money for a bull house isn't there at the moment.

And elephants are expensive to keep. If as a medium-term measure the Elephant House was used for (say) a couple of youngish male White Rhino then I could understand the thinking behind it.
 
Maguari said:
Oh, do calm down, zg. It's hardly ruining the thread to include Dublin in it!

(Ireland doesn't have enough zoos to drag this off course if we included all of them!)
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For once I was calm when I posted,was just pointing out if I had planned on going round the world with this I would have put it in the General forum!
 
zoogiraffe said:
Just a quick point but last time checked Dublin was in Southern Ireland and not the United Kingdom,so why not move this to the correct,part of the forum and keep this thread to United Kingdom collections,which is why I posted it in the United Kingdom part of the forum and not the general forum!!!
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manners please!
 
zoogiraffe said:
For once I was calm when I posted,was just pointing out if I had planned on going round the world with this I would have put it in the General forum!
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It would probably help you look calm if you didn't use three exclamation marks!!!


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I know that Shorts runs the official ZooChat UK Challenge and I don't wish to tread on his toes, but I think it might be interesting to try to guess which prediction in this thread will come true first :) but we may have to wait quite a while.
I note that we don't have anything for the letter Z yet, so I predict that zoogiraffe will be runner-up for the 2013 Booker Prize for fiction (because I don't think he can beat Ms Mantell's third novel about Thomas Cromwell).

Alan
 
IanRRobinson said:
And elephants are expensive to keep. If as a medium-term measure the Elephant House was used for (say) a couple of youngish male White Rhino then I could understand the thinking behind it.
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Personally I think Indian Rhino are a little more spectacular (they just look so "prehistoric" to me) and I'm sure they'd use the pool more but I appreciate a pair of (probably surplus) young male White Rhinos would be far easier to source. Either way, I'd rather them keep the Elephants (points taken on breeding though).
 
gentle lemur said:
I know that Shorts runs the official ZooChat UK Challenge and I don't wish to tread on his toes, but I think it might be interesting to try to guess which prediction in this thread will come true first :) but we may have to wait quite a while.
Alan
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Guess away, I've got strong toes (I don't think it'll hurt the "official" 2013 challenge:)), it'll be interesting to see the guesses though I know some (myself included) have a little inside knowledge and should be disqualified from entry (if they're not sensible enough to keep out of it in the first place to maintain/retain confidences).
 
so forest elephants and long beaked echidnas any other species you wish the rscc to get.

for me its flat headed, marbled and bay cats:rolleyes:
 
gentle lemur said:
but I think it might be interesting to try to guess which prediction in this thread will come true first :) but we may have to wait quite a while.
I note that we don't have anything for the letter Z yet, so I predict that zoogiraffe will be runner-up for the 2013 Booker Prize for fiction (because I don't think he can beat Ms Mantell's third novel about Thomas Cromwell).
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ZG should be congratulated for creating this most innovative thread, demonstrating his excellent knowledge but also allowing people's imaginations, including his own presumably, to run wild, and sprinkled with a few events that may, or may not, become reality.

I think Dublin should be allowed for inclusion if we count it as 'British Isles' as geographically it is closely connected with the UK zoos too.
 
gentle lemur said:
I know that Shorts runs the official ZooChat UK Challenge and I don't wish to tread on his toes, but I think it might be interesting to try to guess which prediction in this thread will come true first :) but we may have to wait quite a while.
I note that we don't have anything for the letter Z yet, so I predict that zoogiraffe will be runner-up for the 2013 Booker Prize for fiction (because I don't think he can beat Ms Mantell's third novel about Thomas Cromwell).

Alan
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My best guess would be the camels moving to giraffe area at twycross. After that Chessington add more hoofstock. Don't want to speculate on deaths, one of them could be the first though.
 
pipaluk said:
My best guess would be the camels moving to giraffe area at twycross. After that Chessington add more hoofstock. /QUOTE]

Camels are the one species at Twycross that would fill the now defunct Giraffe House with no renovation needed. So maybe the 'outside langurs' will be elsewhere- could it be on the site of the also now defunct 'Chimp Row/ Green Mile' if they bulldoze the outside cages?
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callum said:
so forest elephants and long beaked echidnas any other species you wish the rscc to get.

for me its flat headed, marbled and bay cats:rolleyes:
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I never said I wanted RSCC to get either of those species,I just mentioned them in this post.That said I know a fair few species that RSCC have been linked with possibly to have arriving next year none of which I have mentioned in this thread,to help protect the deal being done by it not leaking out on here,before they arrive.
 
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