The photo in the Barrow paper showed one piece of good news; the appearance of David Armitage on South Lakes Team, a Zoo professional for 40+...
Rhino at Flamingo Park Attached is a photo of Caesar imported from Kenya in the mid 60's.He had been delivered in the bush fom a dying mother who...
ravensden zoo ltd Ravensden zoo ceased trading in 2000; It was set up in 1960 or thereabouts importing wild animal,birds & reptiles from the...
I have been following this camera for a couple of weeks. I missed the actual birth by about 10 minutes,but had a traumatic 2 hours watching him...
black rhino born witin the last hour,live on cctv. Fantastic
Your reports on your trip have been interesting. I first visited zoo's in what was the DDR in the 80's. There was poverty everywhere you looked,...
Takin 2 young takin came at the same time fro Tierpark Berlin,one for colchester and one for marwell; the first import to the UK for many years.I...
I remember the gibbons on that island,I seem to remember it became a safety issue for the keepers.The only access to the hut meant going onto thr...
zebra house 1960; Cattle shed 2013 The zebra house in 1960 housed 2 Zebroids, 3 Grevys and 6-8 Grants zebra, a breding goup of white-bearded gnu,...
H Gibbins wants to see the cattle shed knocked down. Sacrilege!!! I started ny full time zoo career in that building in 1959,it was the zebra...
In the old Ape house at Chester in the early 60's,Jimmy the larger male used to regularly wade out from his iisland ,earthing out the electric...
Tierpark Hagenbeck [Hamburg] built a new Orang house in 2004; It has the WOW factor . One enclosure with a glazed roof that rotates open in nice...
Books I was lucky enogh to buy a numbered copy of Henry Scherrens book from Foyles second hand department in th 60's. A great book for fans of...
Our local bus company [North Yorkshire] is advertising trips to Islands in June; theres confidence .
If my memory is correct the parrot house had small aviaries around the inside of the building and a collection of the old parrot cages on a table...
The mention of pigs brought back memories of Warthog in concrete pits below the Parrot house; I am talking of the early 1950's. The parrot house...
Pertinax; Maneless zebra I am sure 2 Maneless either came from Magdeburg or Dvor Kralov in the early 80's and went to hollywood towers.I plum for...
The wooden aviaries referred to by Ian were a gift from the Duke of Bedford,when they got rid of their bird collection, they were indeed from the...
Very interesting blog; I first visited Magdeburg when it was still behind the Iron Curtain; the zoo was atypical drab East German zoo,but the...
Philip Street wrote an article for 'Our Magnificent Wildlife' published by Readers Digest in 1975. 16-18 is the number quoted for Woburn. In 1914...
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