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#1
Anteater walks...
22-07-2008
From the ZSL website:
Boyfriend and girlfriend, Bonito and Sauna, who sleep for around 18 hours a day, will now go for a stroll every weekday at 5pm Interesting... Does this mean they're planning on walking the anteaters around the zoo? |
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#2
22-07-2008
I'd imagine so.
Walking them just after the zoo has closed seems like a great enrichment device because the scents of the visitors will still be "fresh" in the zoo, so the anteaters will be intrigued by this I guess. |
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#3
22-07-2008
I guess it would. Just seems like a really unusual idea to me :-s
Wonder how they would stop them running off... |
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22-07-2008
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#5
22-07-2008
Ha now that would be interesting!
I actually remember seeing animal magic years ago, and they walked an anteater on that. Weird how I was only thinking about that yesterday... |
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#6
22-07-2008
I think the anteaters were showing some stereotyping when I was last there- a real shame. I guess this'll hopefully counteract that, and give them something to think about.
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#7
22-07-2008
Yeah, I just commented on a gallery photo. Stereotypic pacing seems awfully common in giant anteaters.
I don't think I've ever seen them not pacing, as the ones in London, Berlin and I think Howletts all do. |
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#8
22-07-2008
We had a lead for the guinea pigs, but our guinea pigs kept escaping from it!
I wonder what they actually meant by that article; something like the penguin parade at Edinburgh? |
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22-07-2008
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#10
22-07-2008
That's great - really progressive thinking, and they really needed that, having seen them pacing in the house.
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#11
28-07-2008
They don't leave the enclosure. At 5pm the keepers walk out across the paddock with their food and they wake up and follow them. The keepers then give a short talk while the anteaters feed right in front of the public. The pair have raised 6 young and the female now has a contraceptive implant. She has quite bad arthritis from carrying two lots of twins on her back.
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#12
28-07-2008
That's not a walk, that's a waking up lol.
Misleading advertising  I didn't know the London anteaters bred that well though. |
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#13
28-07-2008
Oh. Now I feel dumb.
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#14
28-07-2008
I think we all do :-S
I blame the advertising 
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28-07-2008
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