|
| Notices |
My trip to Antwerp » Antwerp Zoo
|
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools |
|
|||
|
#16
19-03-2008
Did you visit the zoo alreaduy?
Did you like it? |
|
||||
|
#17
19-03-2008
I have now returned!!!
I went to Antwerp zoo once in 2003, but it has improved so much since then!! I'll write a review of it, and then Toddy can use it on his site, then you'll find my favourite, and least favourite parts. I did see the species I had hoped to see though. There are no Wattled Curassows, but I did get great close-up clips of the fireback, and the eastern lowland gorillas (Both females  ) The wattled Guans annoyed me, I could see their silhouette behind the glass, but they were staying hidden....
|
|
|||
|
#18
20-03-2008
oh yes, they are Wattled Curassows, i'm 100% sure.
|
|
||||
|
#19
20-03-2008
Where are the wattled curassows then?
|
|
|||
|
#20
20-03-2008
I'll bet you didn't see the Kiwi.
|
|
||||
|
#21
20-03-2008
No, I didn't...
But I saw: Black billed turaco Palawan peacock pheasant (The display) Great Curassow Red Billed Curassow Yellow Knobbed Curassow Blue Headed Macaw Baby cuora (Not sure of species atm) Turtles Delacour's Crested Fireback Baby Javan Langur Hanuman Langur Owl faced Monkey Eastern Lowland Gorilla Lowland Anoa Dabchick (Saw them In the wild a few days later!!!) Great Blue Turaco (Loving that aviary By the way!) Great Argus Cape Buffalo Macaroni penguin Aquatic Caecillian Lots of Great fish Giant wood rail Spix's Guan Blue Duiker Nubian giraffe I have all of these on film as well (And most in stills) As a school party, We also went to the sealife centre in Bolougne. I have some exhibit photos of this, and a real treat here was a HUGE great Barracuda. There were Caiman, sealions, arowana, and lots of other fish, but they were shown in such amazing, and well thought out exhibits. I'll put pictures up as soon as I can, I'm on My dad's computer at the Moment, as the internet is not working on mine! The pictures are on mine! |
|
||||
|
#22
20-03-2008
Quote:
 Glad to hear you had a nice trip Writhedhornbill. Welcome home!
__________________
I am Toddy, the zoo-enthusiast from Denmark! Different zoos visited: 77 Favourite animals: Aardvarks and manatees. Website: www.zoos.dk |
|
||||
|
#23
20-03-2008
I'll write the review after easter, and my flute exam (Grade 5, I haven't done my scales for a week!)
Next year, I'd like to visit Plankendael, or Paradisio, but it does depend on where the family can take me 
|
|
||||
|
#24
20-03-2008
Some of my pictures are now up in the gallery!!!
Enjoy! |
|
|||
|
#25
20-03-2008
i have never saw a kiwi in antwerp, and i've been there about 60 times.
hmm, what is exectly the difference between the red billed currasow and the wattled currasow? |
|
||||
|
#26
21-03-2008
The red billed, shows a greater sexual dimorphism, with the male being black and having a red bill, and the female being largely black with some white on the head.
The wattled curassow: Males have a white underbelly, and large wattles, and the females have a brown underbelly and small wattles. The wattles of both sexes in this species are the same orange/red. This species is not found outside of the Americas, unless Antwerp still have their pair, or have moved it to another zoo. |
|
|||
|
#27
21-03-2008
their are a few couples curassows close to the zebras, i don't know if they are redbilled or wattled.
|
|
||||
|
#28
21-03-2008
There were red billed (1.1), Yellow Knobbed (1.1) and Helmeted (1.0) in the aviaries near the zebras.
|
|
|||
|
#29
21-03-2008
one off the couples had a young in 2007, i think the yellow knobbed.
But i go to zoo antwerp over 2 weeks, i will search for them than. |
|
||||
|
#30
21-03-2008
OK, I think it was the Yellow knobbed too, as Isis lists that they had young.
|
| Bookmarks |
| Thread Tools | |
|
|
