Longleat Safari Park moved their herd of african elephants to France in 2003, then rescued Anne the UK’s last circus elephant in 2011.
That list is brilliant, thanks for providing this!
While some zoos have similar numbers of species, they vary in the number of species in each order: Carnivores: Exmoor 30; Axe Valley 25; Five...
I have only been to two - Woburn and Longleat. Woburn wins in terms of drive-through. American Black Bears (sharing a 5.2 hectare forest with...
Maybe I'm fortunate, but I have been to all 5 UK Safari Parks in the last year, so I am happy to give my thoughts on each of them. Blair Drummond...
Here are some semi-recent and planned changes/additions that I'm aware of in the last year or so West Midland Safari Park New foot-accessible...
Thank you Mac. Does anyone have anything else? There are so many collections and so many long threads for the last year or two it’s safer to ask...
Difficult to put my top 5 in order but here they are with some mentions to others at the end: PROJECT ELEPHANT BASE CAMP at Blackpool zoo. Have...
{Note from mods - this thread split from here: Longleat Safari Park 2022 [Longleat Safari & Adventure Park]} I wonder with Anne’s age, when she...
Having on been to 4 of the options I’m leaving out Blair Drummond as I haven’t visited, though it could be a contender for my fourth place as I...
Such a good post - they are amazing animals. Saw them most recently at Drayton Manor theme park zoo (BIAZA) last weekend where they had good...
Relatively complete, I think, though I am sure I am missing some French collections from family holidays when I was little. UK: ZSL London Zoo...
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...
I would like to know how many elephant calfs have been born in UK zoos in the history of zoos keeping and breeding elephants so far I found out...
1994: VOLUME 41 Eight issues, all represented within this thread: Volume 41 Issue 1 - Edition 250 - January/February 1994 - physical copy...
@Panthera1981 I would say that it is almost certain that Longleat will welcome a herd of Elephants. Anne’s Haven is only 6 years old. The building...
Seems like there is a demand and supply isue with Elephants. Everyone wants to see them, in fact expects to see them in the Safari Parks, but they...
Indeed, @Embu ! Besides which, that isn't what the Under the Moon exhibit is/was..! It was completely separate to the former bat area - it was a...
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