albino skunk » Five Sisters Zoo Park

albino skunk
23-07-2008

Five Sisters has bred a litter of striped skinks, one of which is albino.

Strachan the albino skunk kicks up a stink - Edinburgh Evening News

23-07-2008

albinos are very common now in the pet trade aswell as chocolate and white anw anewer colour of champange

23-07-2008

Thanks Bloodycurtus, I didn't know that.

26-07-2008

Exmoor Zoo had a couple in recent times (last year??).

05-08-2008

tropical wings in essex have also had a litter with 2 albinos i think?
aswel as chocolates and lavenders there are also a few tans in the uk and maybe some apricots aswel.
stu

05-08-2008

Now that skunk is seriously cute!!!

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07-08-2008

Has anyone been to this zoo? Looks like they have kinkajous in a nocturnal section. There's a website but not a lot of detail on it.

07-08-2008

When i went earlier in the year the Kinkajou was off show as it kept escaping from its enclosure.

07-08-2008

Heres the story today of another Scottish kinkajou
BBC NEWS | Scotland | North East/N Isles | Lonely honey bear has toy friend

07-08-2008

I assume that the five sisters management are able to exhibit such an amazing collection of small mammals because they are independent of BIAZA or any charitable trust and see no ethical barrier to buying from private keepers. There are very few avenues into the british zoo population these days for species now largely in private hands, hopefully the civets and springhare will breed well and start to show up at some of the bigger collections once again.

07-08-2008

They only have the 1 Springhare which is a terrible pity.

07-08-2008

that is a real shame, hopefully they are waiting for a mate.

11-08-2008

Actually many of the larger zoos don't have to many ethical qualms about obtaining stock from private sources. Many species of parrots, fish, inverts, plus sugar gliders, polecats, red squirrels and countless domestic stock are sourced from private owners. Obviously one hopes that they are reputable.

11-08-2008

Yes and no. If a zoo want to obtain something, it usually will if it can do so without attracting negative publicity. Also these days so many species move around without being bought/sold, certainly the charitable zoos don't really have any budget to purchase stock in the way they would have done a few decades ago. I think today it is avoided where possible, and as staff, in some zoos, you are encouraged to avoid revealing how animals entered and left the collection unless it was as part of a breeding programme between zoos. Domestic stock are a whole different matter.

12-08-2008

If the species are part of a recognised breeding program then chances are that individuals are swapped rather than exchange of money. For bog-standard display or education species then money may change hands. The fact is that these species are not the ones that grab media attention and so the public are not aware of (or care) how the animal entered the collection.