Bonobos » Twycross Zoo

11-08-2008

Surely if Edinburgh are planning to build up their chimpanzee group, the obvious source would be Twycross? But I assume all their chimpanzees are 'characters', which are bound to stay for the rest of their lives at the site.

Guenons - to Pertinax....yes Howletts and Port Lympne esp are becoming the main UK centres for excellence in successful primate breeding, however they have only really cracked it with two guenon species, to my knowledge they never bred from the greater or lesser spot-nosed or samangos. But still, these two parks, plus colchester, edinburgh and blackpool, seem to be doing well with more than just black howlers or eastern colobus....

Back to Twycross, the pointlessness of a snow leopard enclosure with a snow machine really will be a travesty, especially when there are Asiatic lions waiting for proper accomodation, let alone primates.

I often wonder if there was some kind of legal document prepared by Ms. Badham to control some of the aspects of the zoo in the event of her passing....understandable but this collection will really be lagging behind in 5 years or so if it doesn't overhaul what it already has.

11-08-2008

Realistically that could be more likely than them parting with any of the Bonobos elsewhere.

They could quite easily put all the Gorillas in one house- the 2nd Gorilla house is almost empty anyway, it has only the two females and the five year old male, and who knows, SamSam might even breed with them? (though I'm pretty certain they don't actually WANT to breed gorillas any more.)

I was amazed when I saw the new Orangutan climbing equipment. I believe the lady fundraised something like £10,000 for this- where did the rest of the money go? This climbing frame is really archaic- better for bears than apes like Orangutan. I do hate to see the Orangutans 'wearing' old curtains and clothes too. Ugh...

11-08-2008

And pigs might fly!

Argee they dont seem that bothered with there gorilla situation

11-08-2008

1. Yes, but as you mention I think Twycross might be loathe to part with them, although maybe younger ones they would(Colchester had one or more from them)- also I think Edinburgh may want to focus on West African chimps and slowly phase out the mongrels by preventing any more breeding from them.

2. True- the Spot nosed and Samango's haven't bred- its only the Dianas and De Brazzas, and the Dianas still have old-stytle accomodation.

3. Yes, to keep the zoo as old fashioned as possible and have priorities totally wrong...

11-08-2008

Oh yes, I'm being hypothetical- another nice idea that will never happen. I think that getting Kesho from Dublin is a possibilty eventually though...

30-08-2008

Diatou and Kakowet II became grandparents on July 28th, 2008.

Yasa, born at the Twycross Zoo on August 27th, 1997 gave birth to a healthy, strong girl at the Zoological Garden of Leipzig, Saxonia, Germany. The girl was named "Fimi" after an affluent of the Congo river.

Mother and daughter are doing well.

But look and see....

YouTube - Bonobonachwuchs im Zoo Leipzig

31-08-2008

Nice video! Yasa seems to be doing a good job. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Alan

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03-09-2008

Does anybody know the exact quare footage and the ceiling height of the Twycross bonobo enclosures??

03-09-2008

No, but if you look on the 2nd page of this thread there's someone called 'MexPirate' who was doing research on the Twycross Bonobos. They haven't posted for a long time but still might be able to give you this information.

14-11-2008

According to ISIS a male bonobo is born at Twycross Zoo.

Unfortunately there are no information about the birth at the website.

Did this birth actually happen or is it a false report??

15-11-2008

No its correct it just Twycross been its usual crap self at not up`dating its website.

15-11-2008

Good news, Zoogiraffe do you know which group it was born too?

15-11-2008

Sorry don`t know but going on the 30th November so if its not been posted by then will find out and put the info up here.

15-11-2008

Maybe you can find out if there are any moves in progress to reorganise the Gorillas now there is no adult male at all...

15-11-2008

Find out for us please which bonobo female has given birth and how the baby male is doing?

And please give us morning glory for Twycross's gorillas (and a new proven silverback to pull the birds)?