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A blast from the past

Animal surplus list from October 1978.

A blast from the past
Paradoxurus, 19 Jun 2013
    • Paradoxurus
      Animal surplus list from October 1978.
      19 Jun 2013
    • Chlidonias
      nice. In today's rates, the tiger would be £1500, the binturongs £1300 each, the sealion £5600, the donkey £180, the caimans £890 each, the guanacos £1900 a pair, and the sooty mangabeys £640 a pair.
      19 Jun 2013
    • Paradoxurus
      I suppose those prices give an indication of the scarcity of some of these animals then. I can't imagine anyone prepared to shell out that much for the guanacos today - the mangabeys would be a snip though.
      19 Jun 2013
    • Chlidonias
      19 Jun 2013
    • vogelcommando
      Great piece of history !
      19 Jun 2013
    • Paradoxurus
      Just for comparison...
      19 Jun 2013
    • Chlidonias
      £40 for a puma on the Chester list, as opposed to £1500 for Colchester's tiger or £200 for Jersey's serval. Makes it obvious why all those little home-run zoos round England in the 70s had pumas!
      19 Jun 2013
    • Paradoxurus
      Which is ironic considering that, about ten years ago, the species was on the brink of disappearing from British collections altogether (I think we were probably down to about five individuals at Shepreth, Gentleshaw, Dartmoor and Santago). It seems interest has picked up again, fortunately.
      20 Jun 2013
    • stubeanz
      Wow! Where did you come across these? I would love to get my hands on any old surplus lists, so much history in them!
      12 Nov 2013
    • FBBird
      Paradoxurus -- any chance of you posting these lists in a format that I can read please? I would love to see detail
      Anyone else -- Animal Life magazine some 50 years ago used to regularly advertise Hartmann Mountain Zebras direct from South Africa at £200 each.
      13 Nov 2013
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