Bristol Zoo in the 1980s » Bristol Zoo

18-12-2007

Look at that!! That's an amazing photo Alan!

18-12-2007

Beutiful photo Alan! Thanks for that.

I think its very easy to see that its a Tarsier a pity that these dont do very well in captivity, I dont think any are kept outside Asia anylonger.

09-01-2008

I didn't know anywhere else to post this so...

BBC website has a story about a baby aye-aye at Bristol...
BBC NEWS | England | Bristol | Rare lemur species is born at zoo

09-01-2008

Is this really only the second one born in Britain? Hasn't Jersey zoo had a lot of Aye-aye births in the past?

09-01-2008

I think they meant on mainland Britain.

10-01-2008

they're very difficult to breed then arent they.

10-01-2008

That's really splitting hairs... Jersey is a UK zoo as much as any other!

10-01-2008

Jersey along with Guernsey and the IOM is a crown dependency - not part of the UK and in fact not part of the EU either which is why you can get duty-free if you go there.

11-01-2008

What concerns me is the statement that Bristol Zoo was the first place to breed aye-ayes in the world.

11-01-2008

That was Duke Primate centre, but their female was pregnant on arrival.

I've made a fool of myself!
16-02-2008

As I was searching for my photos of Dudley's killer whale. What did I find?




I took it at Bristol on the 27th July 1983. It's not a wonderful photograph, but it's clearly a pacarana (with a bald tail). It was in the old Nocturnal House, above the Restaurant on the eastern (College) side of the zoo - where the insects are now. Obviously it was displayed under red light.
I also tried a B/W conversion with Photoshop which is rather nicer, but it makes it look as if the photo was taken in 1883!



I apologise to everyone for my bad memory My little grey cells have been letting me down

Alan

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16-02-2008

So I must have seen a pacarana then, thanks Gentle Lemur.

16-02-2008

If Stuart Muir at Newquay has anything to do with it you may see one again in the U.K.

16-02-2008

those are all in the Philippines, I can't remember the place exactly (I suspect there are probably several tourist outfits that do this). The tarsiers are placed on the branches and are subjected to the usual tourist nonsense. They are probably semi-catatonic in the daylight and just freeze there hoping it will all go away. Their life expectancy in these places is very short.

16-02-2008

Probably on Bohol, there is several places on this Island were you can go and watch "wild" Tarsiers during daytime, done it once myself and it was a truly sad sight. I enjoyed seeing them elsewhere on Bohol during the nights however.