The zoo

03-02-2008

i am and possibly right?

03-02-2008

I was surpised at first, i thought i was only taronga and taronga western plains () , but was fantastci when the numbats popped up.


Also, for a first episode, what a great array of animals, all with a good conservation value, and also little known animals. P hippos, Dhole and Numbats, Excellent to see, and that people would learn about them.

carn't wait for the rest of the series, and hope as glyn said, it will be commercially avaliable.

03-02-2008

I hope so too i bought the melbourne zoo show on dvd

04-02-2008

Cairns wildlife safari has 2 males one adult and a juvenile male both looking very much alive and well.

04-02-2008

and thank god for that says us pygmy hippo fans!

bigcat - does mareeba (i can call it that still since its in mareeba right?) plan on continuing to breed from this pair?

04-02-2008

CWSR is currently waiting on accreditation from ARAZPA certainly the pair there are able to breed with a new male born November 2006 but breeding is on hold now until CWSR is part of the official ASMP breeding program

04-02-2008

AMEN to that, wish it could of been sooner

08-02-2008

I enjoyed the show and I think it is very similar to the NZ and Melbourne ones. I'm hoping to see something about the lioness that was originally born at Auckland. It focused on four storiedsin this episode. The introduction of the pygmy hippos, the dhole cubs and their difficult birth, a lion at Dubbo with a broken tooth and the gorgous and fascinating numbats and their reitroduction to the wild.
Numbats and bilbies would have to be my favourite Aussies. Both are extremely rare and I hope that neither are ever lost.
Next week there is something about giraffes (one of my favourite exotics)

10-02-2008

another very interesting episode featuring casey the leopard seal, an andian condor and a girraffe birth but next weeks episode looks to be very very interesting as it features Arna and Gigis move to dubbo

10-02-2008

I'm suprised that episode three will have Arni and Gigi as this happened not very long ago.So these episodes are not very old at all.
The condor was Leslie.
And Casey the male leopard seal

10-02-2008

The presenter also said there was an 18 month gap between the condor avoiding capture and the show it appeared in in the episode, so we might be seeing things that happened at very different times. . . but will be interesting,

18-02-2008

well the Arna and Gigi thing was interesting i think they handled the situation very well and didnt focus on the negitive aspects of life in a circus but more on their new life and the love that their handlers felt for them. the only negitive thing i have to say is that the show focuses only on the positive and if the story doesnt have a happy ending they just leave it off. take the dhole story for example, the ZOO finished the story at a shot of two pups being handraised but make no mention of the fact that one of the pups later dies in a freak reaction to an injection. the othe is the birth of the Binturongs this week they say that three pups were born, 2 boys and a girl but the zoo only published in the media from the time of the birth 1 female neither the ZOO show or the zoos write up of the episodes makes mention of what happened to the two males? people deserve the truth and i think those who watch this show understand that animals die and it is often no fault of the zoo so the full story should be told.
but thats just my opinion

18-02-2008

taronga zo, god love it, is sometimes a tad defensive. i believe honesty is the best policy, and even taronga lovers like me get annoyed by it at times. people like us can see through the rhetoric and sensationaliam, and i guess when the greens make up whatever story suits the zoo feels its ok to use its discretion......

18-02-2008

The Arna and Gigi bit was most interesting and proved that the circus staff genuinely had affection for the elephants ( and were not the "heartless brutes" that some would suggest.)

Yes, Taronga is a bit defensive, but probably paranoid after all the **** that's thrown at them by noisy, bleeding heart minorities.

19-02-2008

oh come on - lets be honest here, taronga spills just as much bull@#$* as the anti-taronga camp does.

you end up with two sides distorting truth to suit their own agenda and NEITHER camp is telling it how it is.

the same just happened with melbourne. nasty allegations come out, the zoo categorically denies the lot. and as we all know, some of those allegations are indeed very true.