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#31
11-06-2008
The first calf of Ida was a stillborn? When was that?
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#32
11-06-2008
Since Chang was born in 1981, it must have been two years before that in 1979.
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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 |
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#33
11-06-2008
Why Copenhagen Zoo’s new elephant house is strikingly familiar - icWales
An article on the new elephant house at Copenhagen Zoo. |
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#34
12-06-2008
The huge glass domes are exactly the reason why Copenhagen Zoo hired Sir Norman Foster to do this project in the first place. Otherwise, we could have done it ourselves
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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 |
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#35
12-06-2008
Ahead of the herd: Norman Foster redesigns the elephant house at a Denmark zoo - Features, Art & Architecture - The Independent
Another article on the famous elephant house, and this one describes it in quite glowing terms. |
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#36
12-06-2008
The new elephant exhibit in Copenhagen looks amazing will anymore elephants be imported to the zoo?
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#37
12-06-2008
Oh and one more thing were Tonsak, Kungrao and Surin gifts from king Bhumipol? Like Chieng Mai and Buah Hag?
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#38
13-06-2008
Like I mentioned earlier, there are no plans to expand the elephant herd at the moment.
Actually, only Tonsak and Kungrao are royal gifts. Surin is a gift from the people of the Surin province to the people of Denmark. It all began with the first royal gift: Chieng Mai and Buag Hah in 1962. When our monarch visited Thailand again in 2001, once more were we offered elephants. It is a tradition that a royal elephant gift always consists of one male and one female. Copenhagen Zoo then mentioned that two female elephants would be better, but since the tradition can't be brokken, the we were offered a second young female as a gift to the people. We gladly accepted 
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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 |
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#39
13-06-2008
You got your Tasmanian devils through royal connections as well didn't you? About the only useful thing about the monarchy
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#40
13-06-2008
Yes, how can anyone be against that?
. You gotta love the royal family if you are a zoo-enthusiast. Our future queen Mary is from Tasmania. When her and the Crown Prince Frederik's first son Christian was born, the devils were his birth present from Tasmania. Christian, who is now 2 1/2 years old also opened the new Elephant House with his grandad.
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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 |
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#41
13-06-2008
Maybe you could get them to send you some platypus when the next kid comes along...
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#42
13-06-2008
She just had a daughter last year (Isabelle), and I was really hoping for something exotic from down under. Perhaps a pair of wombats or koalas or something. But nothing came...
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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 |
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#43
13-06-2008
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#44
07-07-2008
An appraisal of the new elephant house from Building Design magazine (don't be put off by the terrible pun in the headline):
Foster's urban tusk force at Copenhagen Zoo |
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#45
25-07-2008
I really like the building- the design has clearly tried to come up with new solutions rather than just using the same old flawed design again. Unfortunately I don't think the outdoor paddock does the house justice at all- in fact it ruins it. If the outdoor paddock had more space, and a range of substrates (particularly grass) it'd be far better suited to the animals. I see there are protected areas with trees growing in them. The exhibit will look better when these have grown up, but the elephant 'desert' (as Kiang puts it) really undermines all the other work put into the design.
I guess in an ideal world I would like to this building with the outdoor sand paddock halved, and a couple of acres of grass added. |
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