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Budongo best new exhibit 2008
01-12-2008

The Budongo chimpanzee exhibit has won the BIAZA award for the best new exhibit of 2008

Trail Blazing Chimp Enclosure Scoops Top Awards

does anyone have a list of all the awards?

01-12-2008

[quote=kiang;113949]The Budongo chimpanzee exhibit has won the BIAZA award for the best new exhibit of 2008

Trail Blazing Chimp Enclosure Scoops Top Awards

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Does anyone know whether more chimps are planned for it soon?

01-12-2008

Chester won a couple...

Chester Zoo - Chester Zoo scoops top awards

01-12-2008

BIAZA is hiding its light under a bushel. It's not easy to find the results as there is no press release or announcement on its new page. But the full details are in a pdf file at BIAZA Public Access

Alan

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01-12-2008

good job alan thanks

10-03-2009

5 western chimpanzees due to arrive at the zoo soon to kick off a breeding project for this sub species.

Sex, violence and vasectomies ? as Edinburgh Zoo bids to safeguard rare chimps - The Scotsman

10-03-2009

Interesting.
If zoos are going to take the breeding of chimp subspecies seriously they will need to identify as many wild-caught individuals as possible. It occurs to me that the collection with the largest number of wild-caught chimps is Monkey World. I realise that many of these chimps may not be capable of, or suitable for breeding for physical or psychological reasons. But how would Monkey World respond to requests for genetic testing, transfer of potential breeders to other collections or even setting up their own breeding group?

Alan

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10-03-2009

Don't think they'd be happy as they're "Not a zoo", bit stupid if they don't though. Their chimps are in captivity so why not make use of them in the breeding programme if they're capable of breeding?

10-03-2009

The male chimps would be a more suitable candiates to transfer to other zoos if their the right sub-species. Hopefully will do the business and the more mental stable females chimps would hopefully raise their babies by themselves.

10-03-2009

Pity most if not all of the males have had the snip at Monkeyworld so now just totaly useless to any one.

Existing West African chimps in 'Budongo'..
11-03-2009

Does anyone know which is the other purebed male apart from 'Ricky' (who seems very unlikely to breed now)?

I would also be interested to know exactly how precise the science can be that these are really purebred West African chimps. Is it 100% certainty?

I can foresee big introduction problems too- as stated in the press article -because this is a long establish group which is likely to repel newcomers vigorously. Maybe the purebred animals will have to be initially split into a subgroup to balance the mix of new/old animals better and so make the introductions workable.

11-03-2009

Pertinax,

The current DNA tests are precise for the West African verus subspecies only. Further testing is being done to discover how to type all other subspecies more acurately. I do hope at some point we will be able to distinguish between all 4 ssp. and be able to assign some of the current indeterminates back to their wild ancestry. I am confident it can be done, but it requires some more research.

K.B.

11-03-2009

I am not 100% certain but 'Louis' is the only other male apart from 'Ricky' that was born in the wild

11-03-2009

The current keepers at Edinburgh have experience of introductions, most notably from working at Monkey World

11-03-2009

However animals are still unpredictable, you cannot play for the unexpected. And when you’re talking about animals you can never be sure what they will do and you will never cover every possibility.