Colchester zoo » Colchester Zoo

26-05-2008

I don't know where the Cubans are coming from.

04-06-2008

I saw on their website today lots of new exhibits opening soon, looks cool

04-06-2008

Jambo's progress

This link shows some great shots of Bioparc vakencia (sorry if it's already been posted...)

07-06-2008

A pair of Philippine deer have arrived at the zoo the female from Chester and the male from Mulhouse.
The most recently born aardvark has been sexed as a male, the previous two were female, Magic the female born in January is moving shortly to Saarbrucken zoo.
The zoo have sent a pair of lar gibbon and an emperor tamarin to Novosibirsk zoo.

02-07-2008

The zoos annual report is now available
http://www.colchester-zoo.co.uk/pdf/report_2007.pdf

05-07-2008

2.0 pied tamarins have arrived from Canada, and 0.2 Cuban crocodiles from the Czech republic.

05-07-2008

Those Pied Tamarins are great little animals

19-07-2008

L'Hoest's guenon born at the zoo along with their 1st fennec fox and more gelada and mandrill babies, along with a cheetah cub being hand reared.

14-10-2008

Since it was found out that Colchester's Amur tigress was in fact a hybrid and was sterilised, are there plans to replace her with a new pure bred female? Seems pointless in keeping hold of a genetically important male if he is just going to be a play buddy for a hybrid female?

14-10-2008

Where would the female go? This is the problem nowadays, that most collections are wanting to breed there animals and wont take on a hybrid.

23-10-2008

it will be very hard to separate them- if you saw zoo days yyou would have seen that they pined for each other when they were separated by a mesh slide!

23-10-2008

They are sooo in love be awful to see them separated, we have watched them from when they were first paired and its been lovely also known Annouska since she was a cub at Linton.

Can they take Igor off of Colchester Zoo as he is now technically not part of the breeding programme now that Annouska has been sterilised

23-10-2008

Any positive news of the AI outcome in the white rhinos?

What about breeding behaviour ... anyone any quick lines on that?

23-10-2008

Yes cynthia is 5 months pregnant due mid september 2009 (story on their site)

23-10-2008

Well Karen,

That sure is good news. It seems that AI and breeding white rhinos is finally paying dividends (allthough sadly it took the import of some 30-45 young white rhinos in the last decade to reinvent the breeding of white rhinos.

I suppose they will now try to move on to the other young female and breed her by AI (what has not come naturally with the old resident bull)?
The sire in the AI attempt was the local bull ..... was it not?

Cheers,

Jelle


POST SCRIPTUM: The real champs here are the Berlin IZW team that has so diligently worked over the last decade or so to move invasive rhino and elephant reproductive techniques forward into the 21st century ....