Zoo Days » Chester Zoo

21-10-2007

The Asian Lion cub is featured on 22,23,24 and 26 October (4 days out of 5) and the following week (29 and 30 October and 2 November).

Channel 5 website lists the episode on 31st October as the last of the series, but there a two more that week, making 20.

Tejas is in 7 of the last 10. All the info is from the Channel 5 website.

21-10-2007

Are there any plans for a second series??

Does anyone know the ratings so far??

There was a program about Chester Zoo in 2001/2 on Animal Planet. Does anyone remember it's name??

21-10-2007

It was called Birthday Zoo. Here are the details

DISCOVERY ANIMAL PLANET
08/01/02 and 13/01/02
baby Sulawesi Crested Macaque
Karen Davies hand-rearing Humboldt's Penguin Atomic
baby Giraffe

22/01/02 and 27/01/02
preperations for Po-Chin's first birthday
Karen Davies walking baby Humboldt's Penguins to nursery pool
Sara Cocks feeding Macleay's Spectre Stick Insects and Spiny Stick Insects
Alan Littlehailes and Don Plant with baby Asian Elephants

29/01/02 and 03/02/02
Po-Chin's first birthday
feeding Asian Lions
Twilight Zone

05/02/02 and 10/02/02
Bornean Orang Utan Martha's 35th birthday
CCTV of hornbill nests
Egyptian tortoises placed in outside enclosure

12/02/02 and 17/02/02
birth and tagging of 0.1 baby Ring-tailed Lemur Titch
introducing male Bongo
wooden dummy Flamingo eggs

19/02/02 and 24/02/02
hand-rearing European Spoonbills
hand-rearing Bennett's Wallaby

26/02/02 and 03/03/02
Spirit of the Jaguar
artifical insemination of cranes

05/03/02 and 10/03/02
arrival of Jaguar from Poznan
baby Blackbuck

19/03/02 and 24/03/02
Buying fruit and vegetables
Mandy the Chimpanzee gives birth
Sara Cocks releses Sand Lizards

26/03/02 and 31/03/02
Keeper for a Day reptiles/monkeys
Darren Langford with Blue-winged Kookaburras, Condors and Schalow's Turaco

21-10-2007

I remember episodes 1,2,3,5,6,8,10. Not a brilliant title.

31-10-2007

So yesterday's episode of Zoo Days featured hornbills. We got to see the rhinceros hornbills and wrinkled hornbills in the Tropical Realm taking a shower as their enclosures were watered. The rhinoceros hornbills apparently like to bathe by flying into the wet leaves of the plants in their enclosure and this behaviour was filmed.

It also featured pieces on training the elephant calf Raman, feeding the chimps through the roof of their enclosure, hand rearing the lion cub and a family who won an ebay auction to feed the ring-tailed lemurs on their island.

01-11-2007

Anyone watch tonights episode, some good news regarding giraffee with two expecting! And the rhino introduction between emma and a Male (forgot his name) went well, but he started by trying to mate her from the side!

02-11-2007

I've seen them all, I shall miss the programme after it finishes tomorrow night.

02-11-2007

I was told by someone who works at the zoo that they have filmed some more episodes with mammal trapping and such, Have they been on yet?

I saw it tonight!!!!!!!!!

02-11-2007

I know they had continued filming but i thought it might just be because they had to re film some pieces,

I hope they do a second species but with some more of chester unusual species

04-11-2007

Excellent series - I hope that it does return for more episodes, IMO you can't have too many zoo programmes on the box, it makes such a refreshing change from depressing soaps and reality TV drivel (apologies to any Big Brother fans out there)!

I thought they had an excellent selection of species on the show, highlights for me included the spectacled bears and bird of paradise. And Tejas, what a little cutey! I bet Chester Zoo's gift shop have seen sales of cuddly toy lion cubs go through the roof lately.

07-11-2007

In the first two weeks of transmission, Zoo Days picked up a maximum audience of around 750,000. This might not sound a lot but it is comparable with other Channel 5 nature series such as Nick Baker's Weird Creatures, so I would say there's a decent chance of a second series being commissioned.

08-11-2007

Starting on 12th November Channel 5 is repeating Zoo Days at 1pm.

24-11-2007

i do belive they are now half way through filming a second series of zoo days to go out next year

29-11-2007

Today they were filming a tractor working in the Asian Plains exhibit. I don't know what the work is that was being done. Despite the gate being open wide to allow the tractor access from the road and into the paddock, visitors were still looking for the rhino.

29-11-2007

I hope they are improving the drainage. That paddock has been getting very boggy.

Alan

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