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#1
Zoo report
29-10-2008
A friend of my went to Valencia a week ago. Everywere on the forum i see people asking for pictures from Bioparc Valencia. So here they are:
 The brigde to the zoo Africa Savannah part  Savannh with wit rhino's, zebra's, eland antilope, ostrich. Bigger vieuw  Marabou Storks can get higer on the rots foramations.  Same exhibith, other view. Bigger vieuw Copyright photo's: Mark Du Floo |
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#2
29-10-2008
 The rhinobull has his own exhibith. Bigger vieuw.  The Aardvark and warthog exhibith. Also animals like Bat-eared Fox, Hystrix, Banded mongoose, and some reptiles,mouses.  Hyena exhibith Bigger vieuw.  A bird cage with hyrax and Klipspringers. |
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#3
29-10-2008
 Hyrax in the bird cages beteen the rocks.  The lion exhibith, they have an overlook on the savannah. After the meerkats, the Dromedary camel place!    Grass savannah with rotschild giraffes,waterbuck, impala, blesbucks, Saddle-billed Stork, Greater kudu, Sacred Ibis, grew crouned crane,Painted Stork. Bigger vieuw. |
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#4
29-10-2008
 The rocks in the middle, that is the lionexhibith. Bigger vieuw   At least a elephant exhibith, Also a place for Dirk dik-diks.   Bigger vieuw.  Bigger vieuw |
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#5
29-10-2008
Thank-you for the pictures. It was a pleasure to see them. The hyrax were my favorite view.
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#6
29-10-2008
 Restaurant.  [i]The shop Equatoriaal space  Bigger vieuw.  Modern hagenbeck. On the front: dwarf buffalow and Red River Hog Pelicans in the middle And gorilla's, sitatoenga's, owl facedmonkeys and Debrazza monkeys in the back.  The three is the way for visitors. |
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#7
29-10-2008
Great work Hupie. Thanks heaps for your effort.
It looks fantastic.
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Stuart R Webster A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead |
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#8
30-10-2008
Great pics!
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#9
30-10-2008
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#10
30-10-2008
They certainly spent enough on artificial rockwork and artificial trees!
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#11
30-10-2008
Then a exhibith for bongo, red forest duiker, and a crane species.
This is the exhibith for pygmee hippo, sitatunga’s, drill, ducks.  Bigger vieuw al least the spotted neck otters, snakes and crcodiles.  Madagascar:  Bigger vieuw  Fossa exhibith  Bigger vieuw. lemur island  So this is it. If there is request for Ocenario Valencia, just let me know. |
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#12
30-10-2008
Thanks so much for all these extremely interesting photos! I´m not sure what to think about this zoo - is it fantastic or or is it awful? But I think I tend towards "fantastic" - the enclosures are big, the climate is great for the animals and I actually think one could learn to appreciate the fake rocks?!
One point though. Given the Spanish climate, the animals might well be kept outdoors 24/7 all year round. Does anybody know if this is the case or if they are locked into stables or off-exhibit enclosures when the zoo is closed for the day? |
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#13
30-10-2008
The photos are fantastic, even though many of the exhibits look alike and tend to blend together after a while. The warm climate hopefully allows the animals to avoid being locked up inside for too long, and if one can overlook the enormous artificiality of everything then the zoo appears to be fantastic. I am edging towards really supporting this interesting zoo, and so is it now one of the best in Spain?
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#14
30-10-2008
Thank you very much for these pics, unfortunately they confirm what I had heard before - the zoo looks fantastic from the visitor`s point of view, but many enclosures are totally inadequat for the animals kept in them.
- the sitatunga/brazza monkey/gorilla enclosure is totally awful for the gorillas and the monkeys - way too open, hardly any climbing structures, no possibilities for the animals to get away from each other -the chimp enclosure is a nightmare for the animals, hardly any climbing, too open, no possibilities for the apes to get away from each other - the drill/pygmy hippo/brazza moneky/ talaopin enclosure is a nightmare for the monekys, for the reasons above - you must not monkeys in a sand pitch with ahrdly any climbing!!! - the forest buffalo/red river hog enclosure is so barren - and the ardvark/warty pig enclosure is even more barren and boring and awful for the animals then the forest buffelo/red river hog enclosure. There are undoubtly worse zoos in Spain, and the old Valencia zoo was worse too, and the savannah in the middle is really nice and spacious - but this is a NEW zoo and that they have made so many terribly mistakes, building so many enclosures for so much money without thinking about the animals, especially all primate species - that is unexcuseable. Being a "bit" better then the concrete hell holes like the old Valencia zoo is NOT enough for a new zoo. |
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#15
30-10-2008
Very interesting points, Yassa. I have not seen many pictures of the chimp or gorilla enclosures, but I do not doubt what you write.
Seems like I have been seduced by all the pretty pictures. So this new zoo is a mixture of bad and good, then? It is in deed especially annoying when newly built chimp and gorilla exibits are not good for the animals! One would have thought that there was enough knowledge by now! Damn shame! |
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