Giraffe Heights » Blackbrook Zoo

Giraffe Heights (at blackpool)
20-11-2008

How long has the Giraffe Heights been at blackpool, do you know who built it (any idea of cost), how many giraffes have they got?
Also i take it you can walk up the top seen the photos in the gallery thanks, but can we get some more hehe.


EDIT: can somone change the topic, so it says blackpool not, blackbrook.

20-11-2008

I think those photos were meant to be uploaded in the blackPOOL gallery lol

20-11-2008

Yes, I have sent sim a message to move them but he is very busy at the moment.

20-11-2008

I thought blackbrook was odd.

OK same questions for blackpool zoo.

20-11-2008

They have 1.2, I'll see about if I have anymore taken from above. It was opened this summer, not sure of cost.

Yes you can, it is better viewed from above then from the ground.

20-11-2008

It cost in the region of £500,000

20-11-2008

I think that the house and enclosure can best be described as 'functional'. It is perfectly adequate but modest. A simple fence has been errected around an already existing paddock and the house itself is 'agricultural'. It doesn't look like half a million's worth and like much of the more recent developments at Blackpool contrast quite starkly with the altogether more substantial infrastructure stemming from the park's inception. I was a little dissapointed.

20-11-2008

I thought they 0.3 giraffe, where did the male come from?

20-11-2008

I agree, its a very basic enclosure

20-11-2008

I remember being there when it was being built up by the lions.

Is there plans to breed them, what species of giraffe, how old are they where they come from ??

Do you have any info who built it ??

20-11-2008

ISIS agrees with you that there is 0.3, but I was sure that one was a male! Again I aplogise if it is may mistake.

20-11-2008

According to ISIS they hold hybrids giraffes. They all came from Fota wildlife park.

21-11-2008

The new enclosure seams to be basic and small especially the paddock, the area was previous home to vicuna and tapir , the vicuna now live with the markhor and the tapir have a smaller enclosure, apparently they may mix a species of gazzale with the giraffe.

21-11-2008

Hope they don`t try keeping the Arabian Gazelles Chester tried many years ago wasn`t the greatest sucess.

22-11-2008

It is probably more hopeful than reality. The area which houses the giraffes is the wettest, boggiest part of the zoo, and even with modifications it will never be dry and sandy for gazelles. The zoo's gazelles have been kept off display for years due to a health problem with keeping on the lush green grass.