Spent another day at the park today. Kiki looks very settled in Hananya's group and has met everyone but Cherry and 1 other high ranking female....
The plants in the pond were beautiful yellow iris, but last summer Tiga pulled them out :)
I'm totally primate obsessed anyway, but meeting the orangs and chimps "close up" like that has just made me more obsessed :-) Seeing them from...
The new viewing window you saw was probably at Dalumie's as I saw one there yesterday. The splitting of the orang enclosure currently consists...
Thank you to everyone involved in organising and doing the event. It was the most amazing thing I've ever done. Seeing enclosures and animals...
Zola and Tembo are together because they are Protected Contact elephants, whereas Tanya and Opal aren't PC
Zola was with Tembo yesterday and today when I saw her
I'd have to say Colchester as it's my local and fave zoo!!
Went to Colchester this afternoon and saw lots of people (at least 6) smoking but only 2 of these were near animals. They were at the tiger...
They were named after the numbers 1 to 5 in something like Arabic! I'll double check at the weekend when I go. They were the latest set of cubs
The last cub was moved out of Col on Sunday Zambar. The pack were very active on Sunday afternoon just after the cub had been moved out....
I won't comment on the living area as most of you know I'm not a fan of the "zoo", but it's nice to hear that Tubs has companions and won't be on...
they're beautiful looking animals. I think I've got pictures from previous visits but not on Thursday's I don't think (not really had time to look...
Colchester have Red Backed Saki monkeys, 2 of only 5 in Europe. They also have Amur Leopards and Philippine Spotted Deer Twycross have...
I love watching Rajang and Tiga's interactions. You can tell in Tiga's eyes when he's on a wind up mission. It's great for Raj too, he's a lot...
I'm not going this week as I'm heading to my parents' house in the Midlands for a few days :( but will be there next Monday so will report any...
Tumba has been "fixed" so he can't reproduce. According to a member of staff I spoke to recently, this behaviour is perfectly natural as Tumba is...
There are also the 3 female Silver Leaf Langurs. One is called Little Toes or something similar. The other 2 don't have names
The cheetah that was at Col but has been swapped is Uria. Can't remember the new ones name! Uria will be returning once she's pregnant hopefully
I've made 20 "crackers" for the chimps and orangs at Colchester Zoo and will be taking them with me tomorrow! They contain dried fruit, nuts and...
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