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14-11-2008

Why do paignton always give their exhibits such obvious and innappropriate names. Crocodile Swamp doesn't exactly feel like a swamp and they should have called Monkey Heights Monkey Lows. Now Baboon Rock - that's imaginative...NOT. Oh well, i still love the zoo, i just wish they thought things through a little more.

14-11-2008

At least they didn't build Baboon Swamp or Crocodile Rock! Perhaps Elton John put them off the last idea

Alan

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14-11-2008

HaHaHa! Good point.

14-11-2008

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Armed with a list of questions for the unsuspecting, partying keepers?!

14-11-2008

I haven't had a good look at the plea for Baboon Rock at the zoo entrance but will next time I go. I would have thought there were rules and regulations about charities raising money for a specific project and then using it for something else - until I remembered the tale of Twycross Zoo and the Orangutan Enclosure Do you have some inside knowledge? I am just a curious visitor (in more ways than one).

14-11-2008

Wasn't Monkey Heights named by a competition winner? Perhaps we should start submitting our own ideas for names for zoo exhibits!

14-11-2008

Hello there I am a very observant person as a profesional artist /photographer
Also I visit the zoo 6 days a week! Hence the info. I just love seeing the animals and often I am asked Quote' Dont you get bored? What a stupid question!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately as you are most probably aware there are behind the scene politics the same as in any business.I will just finish with I am a good listener

14-11-2008

I was amazed when I saw the 'improvements' to Twycross's orang enclosure. the climbing apparatus was erected by an army battalion who probably did it for free and the total cost must have been a fraction of what was raised. I wonder what the people who motivated the fund raising thought of all this? Was the rest of the money just channeled into other projects? The Orangutan climbing facilities are still woefully inadequate and the enclosure now looks even more unnattractive than it did before...

14-11-2008

Better not let them see you coming as there could be a mass exodus...

14-11-2008

I haven't seen Crocodile swamp so can't comment, but I call 'Monkey Heights' Monkey Lows too! Baboon Rock- fair enough I think. Remember they devise these names to attract hordes of visitors so they have to give them attractive sounding 'packaged' names and you can't blame for that, even if the reality falls a little short in some exhibits. Its the same at other zoos around the country too.

14-11-2008

good idea , i think baboon bonza or baboon bog, would be a winner

15-11-2008

What Twycross use the money over on another project you must be joking will be sat in the BANK waiting for the Rainy day when they need to spend it because the visitors have stopped going because of the state of the zoo.

15-11-2008

You said there would be a water feature - what about baboon brook. Or if they wanted to make it a trail like at the singapore zoo or the bronx, they could use something which sets the scene better like 'Killimanjaro's Kingdom' or 'The Great Rift Valley'.

15-11-2008

I must say some areas, like the Tapirs, the Childrens area and of course the original old Ape ages are very shabby-looking. The orangutan house is badly in need of a total makeover(or a complete new house) too.

15-11-2008

I agree, before they start rebuilding mediochre enclosures, they should focus on some of the worst aspects of the zoo. The aviaries in primley are long overdue and the ape house does need to be refurbished, if nothing else to cater for orang-utans!