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22-01-2008

I recently received a leaflet for this zoo and it looks very interesting, so I plan to visit it later in the year! It says it has 11 species of toucan, paca, prehensile tailed porcupine and two sub- species of tamandua! I was wondering if anyone has a complete spcies list or indeed have been and could give a reveiw! i love collection that specialise!

22-01-2008

There's a review in one of the international zoo news editions that are still online, here you go (hit CTRL-F to find it ) :

http://www.zoonews.ws/IZN/325/IZN-325.htm

If you go, we do expect foto's and a report!

22-01-2008

They say they have hummingbirds too - so London isn't going to be the only place in the UK with them

23-01-2008

Was Amazon World the place where the baby penguin was stolen from a few years ago?

23-01-2008

yeah your right!

23-01-2008

I've bee. It is brilliant. They have crested Quetzal, Plate mountain toucans and many other rare birds. When I went the tapir was kept in an awful exhibit, so i hope that It's sorted out now.

23-01-2008

what are the 11species of toucan?

23-01-2008

These are the one I think they have:

Plate billed mountain toucan
Toco toucan
Swainson's toucan
Red breasted toucan
Red billed toucan
Channel billed toucan
Black necked aracari
Collared Aracari

23-01-2008

I will try to post some more detailed comments about Amazon World in the next few days or so, but I would reccomend it VERY highly to anyone who likes seeing rarities (which I guess means everybody on this website!). The tamanduas are my favourite but there are lots of really exciting species to see, and its all quite imaginately laid-out. Not your average small zoo at all!

Actually, I'd add that its worth checking that the other 2 main IOW animal collections mentioned in that article - Sandown is making some very big improvements and has really come a long way in a fairly short time. Flamingo Park isn't very big and looks a bit unremarkable on the surface, but its still a very pleasant place to visit.

23-01-2008

Also Green Aracari and Sulphur-breasted Toucan are on ISIs. They are listed as having 1.1 paca, too.

23-01-2008

No. The penguin was nicked from Flamingo Park, a bird park also on the IOW.
It was never seen again. The parents have reared another since then.

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27-04-2008

the penguin was not "nicked" from flamingo park,it was amazon world!
80%of the animals kept at amazon world are all indoors in big green houses with unbearable heat (and smell!)
if you want to see how a zoo shouldn't be run then amazon world is the place to go!some of the enclosures are a nice design,but they are still 2 small....fact!

27-04-2008

It was amazon world that the penguin was stolen from. A friend of mine visited the place a few months back and said it was a terrible place but had an interesting collection.

27-04-2008

If you think this place is bad i could name at least a few that are one hell of alot worse than Amazon World but i won`t for legal reasons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Any way the place cannot be that bad as the place has quite a resonable breeding record with some of its mammals its also bred species that many more established zoos have failed with.

28-04-2008

Sorry for the essay guys, but this zoo really got to me....

yes it is true i have been to many zoos and still amazon world showed me some animals i cannot ever remember seeing before. HOWEVER the encolusures were unbelivably bare and many of the animals appeared very distressed. I could not believe the state of their meerkats with their huge overwight bellies and chewed tails and glazed expression. Yeah you may never have seen some of their toucans before, but do you really want to see such a beautiful bird in cage where it could hop from one side to the other (not even needing to fly) and has just a partner, a perch and a food bowl with no other enrichment or place to hide? you really may aswell look at a photo!

What really annoyed me was that there were "enclosures" with plastic crops in them, demonstrating where peppers etc grow, which were bigger than the animal enclosures, where is the sense in that?

The animals at amazon world are strange, new and exciting, until you look up close! (and that is if you can bare the heat and smell in the buildings to stay and look for long enough). The park also has great playing facilites for kids and does seem to try and do its bit for conservation, but i have seen other zoos and parks where animals look great in captivity and this place is just the opposite.

Also their slogan, "something new every time", what happens to the animals taken off exhibit? are they sent to somewhere else and put throught the stress of being moved and learning a new routine somwhere else? or are they hidden in even worse cages out the back somehwere for a couple of seasons? a dog is for life, not just for xmas!!!

They have the money, the space and the animals, they just need to sort themselves out!