A Grey Slender Loris was born in September to parents Aimee and Raj, and is on-show in NightLife. Sex currently unknown.
Log in or sign up to view
Log in or sign up to view
ZSL London Zoo ZSL London Zoo News 2021
- Thread starter Zoofan15
- Start date
-
- Tags
- london zoo
That isn't the old tiger enclosure, it states in the title it is a temporary holding. It is the enclosure which held leopards for many years, next to the lions. This enclosure was used by lions in the later years before redevelopment of the lion exhibit.Some searching in the gallery has come up with this:
Penguin Enclosure - ZooChat
This is the tiger enclosure that @Tim May and I think you may be referring to:
Lion Terraces - temporary tiger holding - ZooChat
True, but it is the same mesh as the real tiger enclosure round the corner (and to be fair, with @The Hedgehog 's timeline, he may have seen a tiger in this exhibit)
Tiger
Well-Known Member
This may not be the right place to ask this and these questions will sound maybe idiot to people who visit London Zoo very often, but does anyone know what is currently living in the Tecton Gorilla House (old gorilla house), Burton Giraffe House (because I don't know which enclosures belong to the Burton Giraffe House or not) and Casson Pavilion, because the animal collection of the London Zoo changes quite often.
The Roundhouse (old Gorilla House) is currently empty. Over the years it has held the Gorillas Mok and Moina (for whom it was said to be ‘state of the art’ accommodation, but nonetheless didn’t reach maturity), Kodiak Bears, Orangutans, Chimpanzees, the odd elephant, and probably other stuff I’ve forgotten.
The Burton Giraffe House still holds…..Giraffes.
Casson has been repurposed for Red River Hogs and Babirusa
Tiger
Well-Known Member
Thank you very much
.So there are no more aye-ayes living in the Roundhouse?
Do you know which species of elephant, chimpanzee and orangutan lived in the Roundhouse?
So do the okapis and duikers live in a separate building?
Last edited:
The Roundhouse held koala in the early 90s and Aye Aye and Rodrigues fruit bats recently. Also outdoor enclosure held ring tailed lemur then Alaotran gentle lemurs most recently, they went in last year or so
The roundhouse also housed binturongs
No Aye-ayes in there now. I’m wondering if I also saw Koala in there some years ago…..Thank you very much
So there are no more aye-ayes living in the Roundhouse?
Do you know which species of elephant, chimpanzee and orangutan lived in the Roundhouse?
So do the okapis and duikers live in a separate building?
Okapi and duiker aren’t in the Giraffe House.
I think it was Asian Elephant in the Roundhouse, maybe only one animal in the days when they were short of accommodation.
Breeding group of Bornean Orangutan. I suspect the Chimpanzees were zoomix
The okapi and duiker are kept in what was originally called The Horse & Cattle House.
Numerous different species have been kept in that building over the years including onager, Przwalski's horse, anoa, gaur, yak....An African forest elephant was housed there for a while before being sent to Whipsnade; similarly Whipsnade's current female Indian rhinos were temporarily housed there too.
Probably a reasonable species for it to hold now
I remember koalas in there about 30 years ago.
Although sadly not for long, as they were very short-lived!
I remember some of the chimps that later formed the 'colony' when they were young, I think at least some were wildcaught and the variation of faces (mask face, pale face etc) indicated they came from different sources. So probably it was pure parents creating 'zoomix ' babies.
Interesting; as my above reply implied I was under the impression they were present for a much shorter period than that, only 9-12 months or so. Always good to learn something new
One of the problems was that the koalas were at London Zoo around the time that the zoo was threatened with closure.
The Hedgehog
Well-Known Member
Does anyone know why Guy The Gorilla is so famous? It certainly isn’t because he was the first Gorilla kept in an European Zoo,as this title goes to Alfred at Bristol Zoo.
No, it doesn't
Alfred wasn't even the first gorilla to be kept in the UK, with an individual called M’Pungu having been briefly displayed at London Zoo in 1877. This individual had arrived at Unter den Linden Aquarium in Berlin a year previously, and was the first definitively-recorded gorilla in a European zoo. In fact, Alfred wasn't even the first gorilla at Bristol Zoo, as a very short-lived individual was present in 1900.