Tuataras overseas status

09-07-2008

@reduakari: I must be mistaken in regards to the Tuatara exhibit at the San Diego Zoo, but I swear that I can picture it in my mind. A thinly wired fence set on an angle against the main building. It was just outside (barely) as one heads into the "Reptile Mesa" area. But your response now makes me doubt whether that description is true, and since it was in 2006 and I've seen countless zoos since then I could well be incorrect. I was sure that it was a split exhibit, with half inside and half outside...but who knows?

@Chlidonias: when my wife and I were going around Australia in 2007 seemingly everyone thought that we were Americans. We had to stress that we were from the more northernly part of North America...and had to promise that we could never have voted for George W. Bush!

10-07-2008

Reduakari, Chester have an outdoor area for their Tuatara as well as an indoor exhibit and I'd imagine it is much cooler in Chester than San Diego

10-07-2008

I think the point is that it is too warm in San Diego and that tuataras there would need air-conditioned indoor space.

I've never seen the tuataras in their outside area at Chester, has anyone else?

10-07-2008

ah didn't know that!

I've only ever seen one tuatara outside at Chester a few years ago now...

10-07-2008

That would probaly have been the old female from the old Tuatara enclosure,as i believe she spent most of the time out their but has now passed on to the long white cloud in the sky.

10-07-2008

Is it not time for a swap of males from Zoo Berlin (2.0) to Chester and vice versa (1.1)?

How old are the Chester Zoo tuatara and which zoo did they come from?

10-07-2008

given that the tuataras activity temp is around 12-15°C I highly doubt that they would be housed outdoors especially somewhere hot like SD

San Diego tuataras
11-07-2008

According to their website , they have Brothers Islands tuataras "offsite"
This was part of their Reptile house page on their website