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A mere detail, I know, but the aye-ayes are no longer in the Round House – no idea where they are (though I believe still in the zoo).
Yes, the aye-ayes are still in the zoo; they are housed, off-exhibit, in the Clore Pavilion.
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Why the Aye-aye's are off-exhibit ?
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Why the Aye-aye's are off-exhibit ?
A question best addressed to the Zoological Director. I don't know anyone who knows why, and if anyone does I'd be very pleased to be told.
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Are the lion cubs doing well?
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Yes, both girls look very well, happy and confident.
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Unless either animal has been replaced since their arrival in the late 90s, the male was a very nervous animal and displayed frequent sterotyped behaviour in his side of the Roundhouse exhibit, which intensified when mixed with the female or exposed to other stressors. I'm assuming that either (a) ZSL are still trying to breed a (by now, hopefully) regularly compatible pair, or (b) they are now too old and have been retired....either presumably taking place off-exhibit due to the disposition of the male.

If anyone can shed light on that it would be interesting.
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ISIS are no longer showing any macaroni penguins at London, having shown just 3.0 a month ago.....have they gone? If so, what happened to them? The rockhopper appears to have remained despite plans for him to leave (presumably to Whipsnade) last year.
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ISIS are no longer showing any macaroni penguins at London, having shown just 3.0 a month ago.....have they gone? If so, what happened to them? The rockhopper appears to have remained despite plans for him to leave (presumably to Whipsnade) last year.
Macs are back at Living Coasts.
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How many went to Living Coasts? Any idea why?
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Old 27-02-2012
I'm not sure if this has been brought up on here yet, but an inventive if reprehensible way to smuggle cocaine has resulted in London Zoo gaining a number of new tropical fish. There's a 2.19 minute video on the link, with shots of arowana, stingrays, leporinus and geophagus

BBC News - Tropical fish plot cocaine smugglers jailed
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Two men have been jailed for trying to smuggle cocaine with a street value of £1.6m from Colombia to Nottingham in bags of tropical fish.

Olaf Urlik, 33, and Norbert Jarzabek, 32, both from Poland, admitted conspiracy to import Class A drugs at an earlier hearing on 5 January.

The cocaine was dissolved in fluid in plastic bags within larger bags holding the fish, thousands of which died.

Urlik and Jarzabek were both jailed for 11 years at Nottingham Crown Court.

Last April, Urlik and Jarzabek carried out a trial run without the cocaine in which all 16,000 fish were left to die, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) said.

Jarzabek and a friend from Strelley, Nottingham, collected the consignment and took it to a lock-up garage in Islington, north London, where the fish were abandoned.

A second cargo, plotted by Urlik and Jarzabek and containing 17kg (37lb) of cocaine, arrived at Heathrow Airport on 9 July last year labelled "Live Tropical Fish, Handle With Extreme Care".

The fish were in intensive care at London Zoo for several weeks It contained 25 double boxes of almost 550 tropical fish.

Soca and UK Border Agency found 10 of the boxes to have dissolved bags of cocaine stored in the water with the fish.

The fish were left for two days at the airport before being picked up.

Once the boxes were collected they were taken to a flat on Glade Avenue, Nottingham, which Jarzabek had rented a month before.

Investigating Soca officers arrested the men at the property with the evidence.

The fish had limited oxygen for at least 96 hours and many were found dead or lay dying. Only 26 survived and were taken to London Zoo for treatment.

The fish are now in an aquarium at the zoo.

Rachel Jones, team leader of the aquarium, said the case was "really quite unusual".

"We do work with the authorities to take confiscations but they're usually of marine creatures like corals."

She said the fish were "very poorly" when they first arrived and were in intensive care for several weeks.

"They were really skinny and they'd been in terrible water quality for many, many days.

"A lot of TLC was involved in encouraging them to feed. Now they're quite plump and doing really, really well," she said.
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How many went to Living Coasts? Any idea why?
All three that were left at London. Not sure as to reason why.
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Old 02-03-2012
What happened to the other two, as five arrived originally? I would normally assume species of penguin other than Jackass and Humboldts suffer in warmer Southern English zoos, but the only successful colony of Macaronis in the UK sits right on the 'English Riviera', so I don't know why they wouldn't have thrived at London.
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Old 02-03-2012
The macaronis were moved from London (as was always the plan) once the breeding season hove into view as they didn't want any interbreeding between species. I daresay this will lead to lengthy esoteric discussions about breeding penguins but that was what I was told anyway. Ricky the rockhopper was indeed going to be moved but he was still there last time I looked... perhaps he's just not amorous and no chance of breeding! So there are now just Humboldts, Jackasses, and Ricky. He is such a character they probably want to keep him if at all possible!

By the way, if you're into birds, there is now a most beautiful great Indian hornbill in the north bank aviaries, well worth a visit.
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By the way, if you're into birds, there is now a most beautiful great Indian hornbill in the north bank aviaries, well worth a visit.
Very pleasing. A big hornbill species had been a conspicuous gap in the collection. Where at London do others think would be a suitable long-term home for the species?
 
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