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23-05-2007

Hi my name is Chris and I live in Edinburgh. I am a council member at Edinburgh Zoo. I visit at least once a week. At the moment the Zoo is starting it's masterplan. At the moment we are building a new Chimp exhibit which will be called 'Budongo' which will be able to house 40 chimps.
The following is a list of Zoo's I have visited:-

Edinburgh
London
Chester
Marwell
Colchester
Paignton
Bristol
Longleat
Berlin
Cologne
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Amersfoort
Arnhem (Burgers)
Dolfinarium Harderwijk
Antwerp
Dublin
Belfast
San Diego
San Francisco
Seaworld San Diego
Seaworld Orlando
Disney Animal Kingdom
Bronx
Busch Gardens

23-05-2007

Hallo welcome! I am also called Chris and also new to the forum. We've got sommat in common already ;-)

I went to Edinburgh zoo last October for my 18th and a took a trip to the zoo. It seemed to be rapidly changing- they'd just started work on the new chimp area. I'm very interested to hear about any developments up there- keep us informed please!

24-05-2007

Is it planned for the warty pigs at Edinburgh to breed?

24-05-2007

In the future the plan is to breed the warty pigs, but they are to young at the moment. Our Warthogs breed last year as we are hoping that are Red River Hogs will breed soon to.

24-05-2007

I love red river hogs. I have fed them 3 times at Chester zoo. They can be quite vicious when they want to.I know edinburgh had Bairusa last november. Where did they go and had they bred before the move?

24-05-2007

The Barbirusa had not breed and I am not sure where they were moved.

24-05-2007

Hi Bongo

My user name is Bongorob so I guess you like Bongo's too. My real name is Rob and I've been amember of Chester Zoo since 1976.

I've been to Edinburgh twice and hope to visit again soon because I want to see the Japanese macaques, white-lipped deer and Kuhl's deer.

I joined 6 days ago and so far I've enjoyed every minute of my time here.

24-05-2007

I'm sorry for going off topic at the top. Welcome Bongo, I'm sure we'll have a lot to talk about.

24-05-2007

welcome to the forum, edinburgh zoo would have to be one of my favourite overseas zoos too. when i was there in 05 they were just putting the finshing touches on the african forest exhibit for the bongos and geunons. any pictures of the finshed product would be great. and the savannah boardwalk is superb. in fact, after living for 6 months in london all of edinburgh seemed supurb

24-05-2007

I have posted 3 photo's of the Bongo and Red River Hog exhibit