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Mandrill and Spider Monkey Cefn-yr-Erw

Mandrill and Spider Monkey Cefn-yr-Erw
jacks zoo, 19 Apr 2009
    • snowleopard
      Holy smokes, another abominable primate exhibit in the world of zoos. It looks like a metal cage from a laboratory.
    • johnstoni
      So, the old cage was replaced by........a slightly taller replica of the old cage?

      What I don't understand is that they were able to create a hotwired enclosure for the wolves, they have several clumps of trees on the site..........why dont they spend the money they would have otherwise spent on steel caging on some electric fencing and allow the primates access to open areas?
    • James27
      I think this does have a bigger overall floor area to the old one. Not defending it though, just saying :p
    • Mzungu
      a mandrill with a spider monkey? odd choice isnt it?
    • Bele
      The mandrill arrived as a baby , which was being hand-reared , along with other primates -spider monkeys and gibbons - when Southport Zoo closed . I assume that the spider monkey proved to be compatible with it . I do not believe the spider monkey to be one of the two very old animals from Southport . When I saw them they were being housed in a meshed-over stall in the Barn and looking sorry for themselves - I suspect they did not survive very long .
    • Pertinax
      An improvement on the original cage. They are obviously making an effort to get things improved but I rather agree its not very imaginative and still very small. As Johnstoni says, why haven't they thought of hotwiring larger areas instead of building these small lab-style cages I wonder?
    • ZYBen
      Perhaps a Local legalstalive requirement.
    • Pertinax
      Could be. But I believe they have baboons on some sort of island, and now an open top Wolf enclosure too.
    • Bele
      One gibbon lives in a large area surrounded by a low electric fence and there is a large baboon island .
    • Mzungu
      more then likely its lack of funds. let us remember that this is a rescue centre that is situated in an area that wont recieve the customers that zoos do. the priority is animal welfare, and thats what they have, the enclosures are fine, could do with being bigger, but its not urgent. an idea i was thinking however, was to split the open gibbon enclosure in two, or maybe three to make the most of the space.....
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