Parque de la naturaleza de Cabarceno

Parque de la naturaleza de Cabarceno
03-04-2010

Another major player without a thread, covering 750 hectares, 20 kilometres from Santander in northern Spain this park has notably been at the heart of the EEP for African elephants for the last 15 years, currently holding 14 animals (3.11), in one of the largest enclosures in Europe, 13 calves have been born here.
The park has also recently welcomed 2 lowland gorilla from Basel, Wima and her daughter Chelewa, this brings the group to 1.3 http://www.larioja.com/v/20100327/so...-20100327.html

The park also includes a reptile house, with many venomous snakes
Other species at the park include
Barbary macaque
European brown bear
European wolf
jaguar
white rhino
Addax
red lechwe
gaur
common and pygmy hippo
impala
giraffe

:: CABARCENO :: Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabárceno - Cantabria

04-04-2010

All these Gorilla moves, I can't keep up... I think it may mean they now have 1.3 as these are both females(mum and daughter) and I believe Cabarceno only had 1.1. previously.

04-04-2010

You're right Pertinax,i n Cabarceno previously had 1.1 gorillas from Madrid zoo, and now 1.3 with the addition of 2 former Basel females.

04-04-2010

Any news on the white rhino or African elephant groups to report (as per breeding et al)?

04-04-2010

Thanks- I knew that Niky and Nadia came from Madrid and guessed they have added these new two females to promote breeding. Hopefully Niky(who is wildcaught with no offspring so far) will breed with the experienced Wima, and later with her daughter too. Probably the first female 'Nadia (30years) is too old to start breeding now.

12-09-2010

I noticed this place while watching the Vuelta a Espana (cycling Tour of Spain race) on TV today - the helicam picked up the Elephants. It looks absolutely vast, and certainly impressive. What sort of place is it - is it mostly commercial or is it also some sort of regional or national park area?

12-09-2010

It´s like a safari park, with the typical driving tour, but with walking areas too. Definitely it´s not a National Park (elephants or zebras are representative from the native fauna of Spain?)

12-09-2010

True, I was just trying to get a feel of the ethos of the place, and the website is hard to understand for a non-spanish native. Some of the areas look quite natural and unspoilt.

Nasty crash for Anton in the Vuelta, btw?

12-09-2010

Looks like an interesting place, good to hear they are breeding African elephants and playing a big role in the EEP, would anybody know who the breeding bull is?.

12-09-2010

Actually, the elephant bull it's the former Viena zoo bull, I don't remember his name.
@Panthera Puss: in the Roman age this place was a iron mine.The zoo was built using the holes in the ground left by the mining.

12-09-2010

According to Elephant Encyclopaedia, they have fourteen elephants (3.11) and the breeding bull is Pambo, although there is also a ten year old named Coco, who born at the park, but no sire given (presumably "Chisco" though, who died in 2005).

12-09-2010

Any details about Pambo?

12-09-2010

Pambo, an African Bush elephant at Cabarceno Zoo Obregon (Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabarceno)

It's all here, although I cannot guarentee accuracy.

12-09-2010

Thank you, Nice looking bull

12-09-2010

Isn't 'Pambo' the one who, despite being only 4 at the time, killed someone at Vienna?