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New developments
05-01-2009

Regarding the elephant herd at Hannover Zoo the prospects are looking good. It was reported Sayang was pregnant, now it has been posted that Farina may also be pregnant.

Thomson's gazelle have arrived from Safari Ramat Gan in Israel for the African savannah. Some relocation of other antelope has occurred.

Primates: another Javan silvered langur has been born (making 2 births in as many months. Gorilla Melima may be pregnant.

Building of the new Yukon Bay exhibit is coming on strong. The trapper/miner village is already finished and some major groundwork has been done on the various exhibits (polar bear, penguin, karibu, wolves). And for Yukon Bay 0.3 caribou have been imported.

05-01-2009

Thanks jelle

Would you (or anyone) happen to know what the future holds for Hannover after Yukon Bay is finished? Another theme world perhaps?

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I am Toddy, the zoo-enthusiast from Denmark!
Different zoos visited: 77
Favourite animals: Aardvarks and manatees.
Website: www.zoos.dk

05-01-2009

so with the addition of the 3 females does that give Hannover a herd of 2.5?

05-01-2009

I hope that their next themed world is a new exhibit for the gorillas and the chimpanzees somewhere near their Zambezi area. Or what do you think??

06-01-2009

I hope Farina is not pregnant, because she is only 5 years old. A few month ago an elephant keepers means that she and Califa, who is 5 years too, are not in estrous.

After Yukon Bay, the next project should be new exhibits for Chimpanzees and Orang-Utans. The Gorillas have a real good exhibit which is only 10 years old. But the Ape-House where Chimps, Orangs and Gorillas live in is very old and has to be rebuild.
But before start this prjekt it will take 10 years or more.

06-01-2009

I don't think that the gorillas have a "real good" exhibit. Their outdoor exhibit lacks some vegetation and just a few climbing frames, but this could easily be fixed. But their indoor exhibit is as bad as the chimps' and orangs'.

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I am Toddy, the zoo-enthusiast from Denmark!
Different zoos visited: 77
Favourite animals: Aardvarks and manatees.
Website: www.zoos.dk

07-01-2009

In Comparision to the outdoor exhibits of the Chimpanzees the Gorilla exhibit ist very good. She is very large, but you are right, I miss some more climbing trees.

The Orang-Utan outdoor exhibit is the badest exhibit at the whole zoo.

Here some pictures.
Gorillas Indoor


Outdoor


Orang Outdoor


Chimpanzee

07-01-2009

That Orang-utan cage is tiny.

17-01-2009

Hanover's 'Gorilla Mountain' is not an ideal exhibit- very bare, no vegetation or cover, very few trees and with dangerous drops into the watermoat. It could be made much more attractive, both for the Gorillas and visitors, at not too much expense,I think, as it is perfectly spacious. The Gorilla group I believe have some social problems also, despite breeding okay so they might benefit if they could obtain more privacy from each other with clumps of trees, bushes etc.

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