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giraffes and zebras at port lympne and howletts
04-07-2009

does anyone have any information about the giraffes and zebras at port lympne and howletts?

04-07-2009

Howletts I believe does not have any giraffes or zebras, but Port Lympne has giraffes and zebras on the African Experience. I think they have 4 Grants zebras and 3 Grevys zebras.

04-07-2009

does anyone have any information about the giraffes and zebras?

04-07-2009

You are correct there, but Port Lympne definitely have Giraffe's and Zebra's on the African Experience.

04-07-2009

Port lympne has Rothchilds giraffe, as far as I know its a herd of 5 with a baby born in 2006. The zebras kept are Grants and the possibility of one other sub species..

04-07-2009

P.L. has 4.1 hybrid giraffes (I think they were thought to be pure baringo giraffes when they aquired them), the female will leave in 2009 and they will hold an all-male-group with a maximum capacity of 8 animals. Which is great, because the EEP needs holders which keep single-sex-groups of hybrids and purebred males which are not currently needed for breeding.

05-07-2009

all the males are hybrids.
They have one pure rothschild female named amber from longleat and her son (she was pregnant on arrival) called Karamoja

05-07-2009

Are they planning to breed Rothschild giraffes now then? I'm aware the male she was supposed to come with died en-route. It seems a waste to keep two pure specimins if they arn't going to breed from them (ie, send one out of the collection and get in another male/some more females).

05-07-2009

You are correct that Amber is pure but from what I have heard Yassa is correct in that she will leave collection to join another collection holding just pure Giraffes,while Port Lympne will hold 1 the largest Batchelor Herds of Giraffes in Europe.

05-07-2009

I presume Karamoja will join the bachelors until he's needed then?

Good news about his mother

05-07-2009

Thats the plan.

06-07-2009

I take it Karamoja is a pure bred then? Seen as he's from Longleat with Amber

06-07-2009

Correct he is.

06-07-2009

Just wondering if this group has had any problems, as the whole group of 4 bulls and just one female are all kept together and most places only keep one male at a time with the females...

06-07-2009

Not that i know,they have the same situation at Whipsnade and they`ve not had any problems.