Polar Bear » Edinburgh Zoo

Polar Bear
05-07-2009

Hi, Can someone tell me if Edinburgh still have their polar bear?
Also do they have any other rare animals in the uk?
Koalas?

05-07-2009

Edinburgh's Polar Bear will shortly be moving to the Highland Wildlife Park

If you have a quick browse of the Edinburgh or Highland Wildlife Park sub-forums, then it is discussed in more detail in there

05-07-2009

Why dont you look on the Edinburgh zoo website (all you have to do is google it) there you can see which species they keep

05-07-2009

Hello greyone welcome to the forum

Edinburgh zoo still has one fairly elderly polar bear called Mercedes, who is due to move to the highland wildlife park in a few months time.
There is one other polar bear kept in the Uk, but this is in a private zoo in Oxfordshire.

Edinburgh zoo has a lot of rare animals in its collection, the stand out species for me are

koala
aye aye
gelada baboon
drill
purple faced langur
giant anteater
wolverine
ratel (due to be moved to another zoo)
European otter
Pallas cat
Amur leopard
Sumatran tiger
Asian lion
Indian rhino
Malayan tapir
vicuna
Siberian musk deer
white lipped deer
Bawean deer
lesser kudu
Kirk's dik dik
nyala

Australian cassowary
Darwin's rhea
white naped crane
blue crane
Steller's sea eagle
lady Ross touraco
Victoria crowned pigeon
Socorro dove.

And of course the world famous group of penguins.

I hope that answers a little of your question, and again welcome to the site


P.S To members of zoochat, please try and remember that newcomers to the site have not read all the threads as existing members have done.
Chinese grey goral

05-07-2009

Why is there group of penguins "world famous"???

05-07-2009

Well do you know any where else with a colony of Gentoo Penguins of over Hundred Birds that breeds every year!!

05-07-2009

and they were the first zoo to keep penguins, anywhere!

05-07-2009

I`m pretty certain London kept them before Edinburgh even opened.

05-07-2009

Oh, I didn't realise how many they had, 100 is a lot of penguins!!!!!!!!

05-07-2009

I think the number for the whole flock would be nearer 150 including the rockhoppers and the kings

05-07-2009

Current ISIS listings:

Gentoo: 61.74.26
Rockhopper (ssp moseleyi, which ISIS now seems to have as a full species): 12.6.2
King: 8.2


Which I make to be 191 penguins.

06-07-2009

oh, sorry zoogiraffe (dam you wikipedia)

06-07-2009

Just a little tip but whenever you read something on wikipedia you should always back this up with another source

06-07-2009

i didn't know that the ratel was leaving edinburgh zoo. do you know where it is going?

07-07-2009

They were the first to breed king and gentoo penguins. They have the largest outdoor enclosure in Europe and they are famous for the daily penguin parade which has been going on since the 1950's.