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No bigcats..?
17-01-2008
Does Alma Park Zoo have no big cats..?
Whats the deal here..? |
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#2
17-01-2008
Alma used to have a leopard called Pussy. He (or she can't remember) was a very old cat and lived in a terrible iron bar and concrete cage for all of its life. (The old sort of menagerie cage). When Pussy died they kept the cage as a memorial to it.
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#3
17-01-2008
Any plans for a new development..?
A zoo with no big cats, is well, not a real zoo..! |
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#4
17-01-2008
The problem is that Alma Park is a tiny zoo, privately owned, not much room to expand (it is now almost totally surrounded by new housing estates, ina an area that was once rural) and without a big cashflow to allow for new redevelopments ( I was suprised to hear that the lemurs were going there.) It is also a 'stones throw' from a major developing zoo known to all of us for it's eccentric owning family
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#5
17-01-2008
That all sounds plausible, but surely somewhere on their property they could demolish a few old/aging exhibits and plan to have at least Sumatran Tigers or Snow Leopards as the main drawcard in the zoo...
Or at least make plans for it... |
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#6
17-01-2008
Maybe they could hold some of the smaller cat species such as Fishing cats and others
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#7
17-01-2008
That very true Mark and would be a great start but don't they have 15 or acres..?
With this space acquiring Snowleopards or Sumatran Tigers would be the least they could do for SSP's and attendance... |
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#8
17-01-2008
Jeremy their website says they have 40 acres
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#9
17-01-2008
Ohh.. I had 14.5 in my head for some reason...
 Well space is even less of an issue then..! Must be money...
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#10
17-01-2008
The zoo is also known for it's gardens, NAtional Zoo and aquarium has done a great job of using the little space they had available to display a reasonable collection however it does not have the same lovely open picnic areas that Alma Park Can boast, from the pictures I've seen it is quite a bueatiufl place.
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#11
17-01-2008
Would you agree that while having a great botanical display is desirable, a zoo should focus first on exhibting wildlife..?
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#12
17-01-2008
Yeah I would, but with limited land available I think Alma park should be coservative with what they give space to. I agree that something like a sumatran or two would be great but (and sorry to bring Canberra back to this) as Mark said Alma Park is surrounded by residential development where canberra has a giant dam and spare paddocks, which they were successful in obtaining to expand the zoo, Alma Park Doesn't have this option.
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#13
17-01-2008
Mark also said they have 40 acres...
Auckland Zoo has 50 acres and exhibits 3 species of big cat, 1 small cat species on exhibit and one small cat species off exhibit... Its seems to me to be a money, rather than space issue... |
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#14
17-01-2008
I think you may be right . . . why go to a small inner city zoo when there's a big shiny (in terms of exhibits) new one not too far down the road
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#15
17-01-2008
It just seems to me to be a bit of under used space it could be a great few hours out and vital to SSP management... Is it ARAZPA accredited..?
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