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Edinburgh Zoo questions?
15-08-2008

Hello everyone!! I really wanna go to Edinburgh Zoo sometime, and i would be happy if someone told me more about it, which animals they have, what sensations they have and that. Thank you.

15-08-2008

Kiang or Bongo would be the best people to answer this question as I haven't visited, but I keep an eye on the collection and news.

Notable things include:
- Koalas,
- Polar Bears
- Drill
- Aye Aye
- a multi-million pound Chimpanzee enclosure
- a lorikeet building
- a mixed monkey habitat for capuchins and squirrel monkeys
- one of the most successful penguin groups
- Indian Rhinos
- Asian Lion
- Possibility of Giant Pandas in the near future

15-08-2008

Ok... I hope that Kiang and Bongo can answer me too...

15-08-2008

Swedish Zoo Fan. You can see what Edinburgh probably keep from the 2007 annual report.

Annual Report Index

15-08-2008

Edinburgh is a great zoo in the making, plenty of attractions as Jimmy has mentioned the zoo is famous for its penguin breeding most notably with kings and gentoos.
Other attractions as the zoo include
purple faced langur, Hamlyn's guenon, yellow breasted capuchin, Diana monkey and L'Hoest's guenon in the monkey house.
Large group of gelada baboon in huge new enclosure
Steller's sea eagle
Patagonian sea lion
Britains only Bawean deer, Siberian musk deer, Japanese serow, wolverine, marbled polecat, lesser kudu, white lipped deer and of course the much discussed "Mercedes" the polar bear.
Breeding groups of white cheeked gibbon, black howler monkey, eastern pygmy marmoset
European souslik, lesser hedgehog tenrec, Malayan tapir, Grevy's zebra, lowland nyala, addax, warthog and Chilean pudu.
Other birds in the park include Macaroni penguin, double wattled cassowary, marabou stork, blue, white naped and crowned crane, hammerkop, ocellated turkey, Montserrat oriole, thick billed parrot, Victoria crowned pigeon and Darwins rhea.
Highlight exhibits are of course the Budongo chimpanzee complex, the walk through lorikeet building, living links a primate science centre, the Congo exhibit with bongo, red river hog, diana monkey and galago.

When you are visiting my tip would be take the safari train at the entrance to the top of the hill, it can be quite a hike to the top.
And most of all enjoy your visit.

17-08-2008

Small and rather insignificant correction, but I believe that there is a small park in Essex, mostly butterfly-orientated, that has of all things Marbled polecats. And had them before Edinburgh. How and why - I don't know.

17-08-2008

Tropicalwings is the place that you are on about,also Five Sisters Zoo Park have a pair,also their are alot in private hands and may 1 or 2 other smaller collections.

17-08-2008

That is good news as Edinburgh are now down to one animal as one of the pair has died, so maybe a good chance of pairing up the lone animal.
Visited the zoo so many times and still never seen these the most spectacularly marked mustelids.

18-08-2008

I think tropical wings bred them quite recently.

18-08-2008

Yes they have i think they are in the process of doing an exchange with a private keeper to make up a second pair,there was an article in 1 of the ABWAK journals about the hand rearing of the youngesters at the collection.