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Lemurs, if you'd actually walked through the walkthrough rather than past it you'd have got the complete educational package as there's loads of display material inside about habitat destruction/endangered animals etc. The whole enclosure is about deforestation due to logging.
 
volvox said:
Lemurs, if you'd actually walked through the walkthrough rather than past it you'd have got the complete educational package as there's loads of display material inside about habitat destruction/endangered animals etc. The whole enclosure is about deforestation due to logging.
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You are spot on, I was at the Zoo today (Friday) and I made a point of attending the lemur talk at 15.00. The presenter goes into great detail about the plight of ring tail lemurs and as you say there is additional information throughout the exhibit. If anyone is due to visit London Zoo in the near future, there are 2 talks every day, I think the first one is at 12 or 12.30 and the later one at 15.00. Pop along and make your own mind up.
 
Regent said:
Thanks, saw the weather report myself, interesting to hear the keeper say that the zoo was looking for a female companion for Ricky the Rockhopper.
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I didn't actually see it on TV, I only saw it on that link while looking at the news.
 
Regent said:
...the zoo was looking for a female companion for Ricky the Rockhopper.
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Given there are 7 (posssibly 3.4?) rockhoppers at Whipsnade, this seems a strange statement for them to make. Unless this is an indicator that they always planned to move one of the new females over to London when she is old enough to hold her own with their male.
 
If this is the plan, it will be the first time a rockhopper has been brought from another collection to the new, fox-proofed exhibit, and assuming the male isn't totally humanised beyond being able to pair-bond, perhaps the start of this species actually beginning to breed at Regent's park.
 
Communityzoo said:
Given there are 7 (posssibly 3.4?) rockhoppers at Whipsnade, this seems a strange statement for them to make. Unless this is an indicator that they always planned to move one of the new females over to London when she is old enough to hold her own with their male.
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From what I can recall the rock hoppers at Whipsnade are very young, perhaps just about a year old. The London Zoo keeper, Zuzana, is very experienced and knowledgeable, so she would not give a misleading statement. I am sure in due course a female will join Ricky at Penguin Beach at London Zoo.
 
Regent said:
From what I can recall the rock hoppers at Whipsnade are very young, perhaps just about a year old. The London Zoo keeper, Zuzana, is very experienced and knowledgeable, so she would not give a misleading statement. I am sure in due course a female will join Ricky at Penguin Beach at London Zoo.
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I had actually taken what you were told at face value - it wasn't until your reaction that I began to think on that. On reflection, I wouldn't want to speculate or dredge up examples specific to London, but it isn't beyond the realms of possibility that the information put into the public domain isn't as specific as you or I are used to reading on here.

My point was, assuming what you were told meant the prospect of one of the Whipsnade females has been ruled out, it therefore seems odd for ZSL to acquire 3.4 together, given they will form pair bonds soon. One would assume they perhaps plan to import a further group and will balance numbers at that stage. Separately, to run the cost of acquiring an additional, single female which they would likely need to import - I can't think where they would find an adult female that another collection is willing to part with. It wouldn't appear the most obvious use of funds, when they could easily transfer a young adult female to London when they are old enough, but perhaps there is a logic here we are not privy to.
 
Can anyone answer this question:

When Animal Adventure first opened, Red panda were housed opposite the coati at the entrance to the exhibit. What happened to them and why were they moved?
 
I think they were moved to Whipsnade quite quickly because red pandas need really tall trees to climb and curl up in to be happy and there were none available in that location. I believe they're fine now.
 
Panthera1981 said:
Can anyone answer this question:

When Animal Adventure first opened, Red panda were housed opposite the coati at the entrance to the exhibit. What happened to them and why were they moved?
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I think that Animal Adventure was opened in 2009 and sometime in that year, a red panda escaped into Regents Park. The red panda was recaptured and I believe the decision was made to move the red pandas to Whipsnade, better environment altogether.
 
Regent said:
I think that Animal Adventure was opened in 2009 and sometime in that year, a red panda escaped into Regents Park. The red panda was recaptured and I believe the decision was made to move the red pandas to Whipsnade, better environment altogether.
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It was Easter 2009, I visited just after it opened.
 
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