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26-08-2007

wonder when the geladas will arrive still only 2 at the top of the hill in that huge enclosure

26-08-2007

any ideas where the geldas are coming form and where ?

28-08-2007

I believe orang-utans are part of the masterplan, even though gorillas are not. The orangs are certainly shown in the masterplan literature.

28-08-2007

Yes, there's a picture of them with malayan tapirs in my Edinburgh zoo book. It's an artist's conception though....

29-08-2007

I read a press release last year that Edinburgh Zoo are drawing up plans to open a new zoo in glasgow...an undercover, rainforest biome on the banks of the Clyde. Has anybody heard anything more about this? What is the relationship between the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and the old Glasgow Zoo? Who owned the old glasgow site/ made money from the land sale? Is this a totally new project?

29-08-2007

palns were submitted but they were turned down for lottery money so the project has been put on the backburner, but according to rzss chief executive david windmill discussions will be ongoing

29-08-2007

I think Glasgow Zoo was owned by the Council. Situated well outside the city in a rather run-down suburban area, it was in my opinion the WORST Zoo I've ever seen in the UK. I went once and conditions were terrible. Dilapitated cages, rusting and broken fences, paddocks of mud or packed earth, a bird house where every cage was full of old droppings... and that was as late as mid 1990's.

From memory, there was a single White rhino, Asiatic bears, Lions, and in the past they had bred Cheetahs. There was a notice saying they had applied to keep Asiatic Lions but had been turned down,(no doubt because of the substandard housing). The Zoo Director, who is now dead, was actually a very earnest and cultured man with a great wealth of Zoological knowledge. But somehow he wasn't able to obtain adequate funding from the Council to keep the zoo running properly.

Presumably after years of allowing it to moulder, the City Council would have benefited from the closure. Perhaps its been sold for housing?

02-09-2007

have just seen a picture on flickr of what looks like a female purple faced langur with a baby i thought the female had died can anyone clear up this mystery

02-09-2007

Did Adelaide zoo send them a pair a year or two ago?

02-09-2007

The purple face langurs are in 6 months quarantine and there appears to be 2 groups, so they are new arrivals at the zoo.

02-09-2007

bongo, where did they come from and are they in the monkey house. what other new species have arrive or are arriving. p.s thanks for the info.

03-09-2007

Perth used to house a pair of Trachypithecus vetulus nestor, the subspecies from the western provinces of Sri Lanka (2004). Both Belfast and Twycross have maintained - for quite a while now - the monticola subspecies from the Sri Lanka hill tracts.

03-09-2007

the original edinburgh pair came from perth

05-09-2007

The purple face langurs are housed in the monkey house. The Zoo recently received a male Amur Leopard which is in quarantine before being moved to the HWP.
The Zoo also has a new Female Jaguar.

07-09-2007

Hot off the press!

Edinburgh Zoo
1.3 Pallas' cat kittens born doing well. And 5, yes ... you read correctly purple-faced langurs were imported from Singapore Zoo. A male at Edinburgh has been sent in exchange to pair with the only female of her subspecies. The original male is the same subspecies. So, another problem solved!

Highland Wildlife Park
A 4th bison calf born recently. The Bactrian wapitis, a highly endangered red deer cervid from Central Asia, whose breeding group was housed at Edinburgh Zoo is today and tomorrow being moved out the the HWP.

Source: today's Edinburgh e-net zoo news.