Hi Zoochatters! I’m going on a small zoo trip for just over a week in early March, to Spain and Germany. My itinerary currently looks like this:...
All the species at Madrid where visible last summer, but the Beech Marten can be a bit tricky. I would recommend late afternoon for the Iberian...
I've thought of some more, quite a few UK black rhino; Parky- Whipsnade and Chester(and maybe Port Lympne as well) Esther. London and Chester(?)...
SENGI - MACROSCELIDEA 20 species in 1 family 4 species kept this century (20%) The sengi or elephant-shrews are another uniquely African group of...
15 years is a long time.... Personally my favourite 3 German zoos are Cologne, Nuremberg and the Wilhelma in Stuttgart. Behind that is gets...
SUMMARISING EXOTIC MAMMAL ORDERS With over half of all mammal orders completed it is time for the first summarising post. While the orders...
- Birdworld in the UK currently has the only known bank cormorant (Phalacrocorax neglectus) in captivity. - Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan has...
Hello everyone, and thanks for all the helpful advice, both zoo-specific and in general. I intended to post a day-by-day account of my trip from...
This is legitimately one of my favorite ZooChat posts of all time - a fitting date for it I suppose. Thanks for this awesome timeline! I can't...
Believe it or not ZooChat is even older than YouTube, as well as iPhones.
A look back on the last 20 years, building upon @Zoofan15 2003 ZooChat launches! London Zoo opens 'Happy Families' for otters, tamarins, and...
Thanks everybody for the interesting thoughts! Education can be done without giving up endangered species. Zoos need to have several functions,...
I feel this comes off as an attempt to imply that UK collections are inferior to collections on Mainland Europe - complete with describing Chester...
In my local Zoo the Wilhelma Stuttgart, they have short eared Elephant shrews in the Giraffe House
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So, the next few posts will be a full breakdown and analysis of the data presented in this thread. I recognise @lintworm did something similar, so...
Germany Europe's largest zoo country still offers countless possibilities for inclusions in such a list, despite already having 29 exhibits that...
Firstly thanks everyone for their responses, I didn't expect to get so much attention for this rather far away trip! Thanks for the comment, the...
I am proud there are four czech representatives! I am however a bit surprised - not so much about Prague, but that there is Ostrava, while Zlin,...
For easy reference, here is the index, sorted by country and zoo: AUSTRIA Herberstein, Tierwelt Mandrill and grivet enclosure (28) Innsbruck,...
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