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11-05-2006

No problem at all ,Nigel. I know that about the shortening, I met iothers of your country before.
I'm not offended ,I even think it's good you shorten my name. If you want, all you guys can name me Kevin (my real front name) too.

Brussels zoo closed many years ago ,in 1879 already. Brussels started another zoo after the first world war ,but the plan never got far and it died in the second world war.

Zoos in Belgium as of today , source: isis

Mnemonic Institution Address City Province Country
OLMENSE Olmense Zoo Bukenberg 45 2491 Olmen-Balen Antwerp province Belgium
ANTWERP Zoo of Antwerp Royal Zool.Society of Antwerp Queen Astrid Square 26 Antwerp province Antwerp Belgium
AYWAILLE Monde Sauvage Safari SPRL Website Fange de Deigne 3 B-4920 Liège province Aywaille Belgium
TOURNAI Musee d'Histoire Naturelle De Tournai Website Cour d'Honneur l'Hotel de Ville B-7500 Tournai Belgium
CAMBRON Parc Paradisio S.A. de Domaine de Cambron 1 Cambron-Casteau Belgium
IEPER Bellewaerde Park Meenseweg 497 Jeper, Zillebake Jeper Belgium
PLANCKNDL Wild Animal Park Mechelen Planckendael Website Royal Zool. Society of Antwerp Leuvensesteenweg 582 Mechelen (Muizen) Belgium

That's all I know off. oh wait, there's teh aquarium aquatopia in Antwerp ,and the aquarium in Liège (city).


Curiosity and variaty are the spices of life.

12-04-2007

Doesn't Antwerp zoo have an excellent collection of Curassows and Asian fireback pheasants. They seem to breed them well too.

12-04-2007

Shouldn't you be 'WrEAthedHornbill' rather than WrithedHornbill ?

12-04-2007

Well there is a wreathed hornbill but I prefer the Mindanao Writhed hornbill. They have it at Chester Zoo. The only pair in Captivity.

12-04-2007

fair enough. Can you pinpoint which zoo the current Indian rhino male came from. Also any news on the Cheser Spectacled Bears. I heard they have exchanged one of the two males for a female. Correct? Do you now where the female came from, or where the male went to?

14-04-2007

I think the female came from Ponzan zoo in Poland and the male valatine went to johannersburg in south Africa. No breeding yet though. Patna ( sorry he's not called Panza) Came from Berlin zoo.

15-04-2007

Thanks for that news. I think the other(current) male is called a funny foreign name like 'Escroltch' I believe both males\came from the same East European zoo and may have been brothers- but from seperate litters. When I visited only one showed itself readily- I'll bet that's the one Chester have still got.... It will be a while probably before they are breeding but bound to happen. The different individual 'spectacle' face markings are interesting in this species.

Indian rhino- Patna from Berlin- I think he was partially handraised as a baby as he was injured by his mum, broke a leg or something. Also he could be the son of Gaidi, who was at Chester- BUT East Berlin also breed them too and I know the male at one of these two zoos is too aggressive to mate, so their female is sent to the other zoo's bull for breeding. East Berlin's bull is 'Belur'- I can't remember which is the aggressive male but he bites the females during mating so they won't stand for him any more....

16-04-2007

So Chester has A baby from Their own Rhino. They could never have done that before. From my knowledge they only had a male. He only sat at the back of the house. Gaidi wasn't aggressive. He seemed to really be missed by the Keepers.

16-04-2007

Next time you go you could ask if they know which male fathered their rhino. They'll probably say it was Gaidi who I think is the one that breeds okay, and its the East Berlin male who can't be used.

16-04-2007

I'll ask when I'm on the next members trip.

17-08-2007

Elephant Khaing Phyo Phyo is pregnant! Yesterday confirmed by the zoo.

17-08-2007

Is that one (the mother) that came from Port Lymne?

18-08-2007

Yup, mother of the little May Tagu that moved with her to Antwerp

05-01-2008

They do have indeed a remarkable collection of 7 species of curassow/guan:
- Crax rubra (great currasow)
- Ortalis canicallis (Chaco Chachalaca)
- Crax daubentoni (yellow-knobbed currasow)
- Pauxi pauxi (helmeted currasow)
- Crax globulosa (wattled curassow)
- Crax blumenbachii (red-billed currasow)
- Aburria aburri (Wattled guan)

There's also an impressive turaco collection:
- Tauraco persa buffoni (Buffon's green turaco)
- Tauraco fischeri (fisher's turaco)
- Corythaeola cristata (great blue turaco)
- Musophaga violacea (violet turaco)
- Tauraco leucolophero (white-crested turaco)
- Tauraco leucotis (white-cheeked turaco)
- Tauraco schuettii (Black-billed turaco)

05-01-2008

Do you have a list of their whole collection?
What pheasants do they keep?
Have you been to Parc Paradisio? Do you have a species list for it?