Tigers at Edinburgh » Edinburgh Zoo

11-10-2008

I actually don't have a problem with this either It would be impossible and unrealistic for all zoos to have the same wonderful standards of housing as each other. So transfers are bound to happen where animals end up in less salubrious surroundings as well as in better ones..

Also I'm not sure how much the 'quality' of an enclosure has to do with wellbeing- we automatically presume that what looks to us like ideal or aesthetically pleasing surroundings suits the animals better too, but does it really? - I don't know.

11-10-2008

Are Edinburgh's jaguars actually in the same enclosure as each other? Ive never seen a picture of them together?

Are there plans to breed off this pair?

12-10-2008

When i was there over summer the keeper said they are not ready to breed them yet and they have to live separately for the near future. I think it was due to age but I'm really not sure (I can't remember basically) no doubt someone knows more than i do