Also see Winchester Cathedral: Winchester Cathedral | Peregrines
I now have a lifetime collection of around 650 zoo related books and know of others with many more, so there will be no attempt to list them here....
Excellent stuff. I know the Bartlett Society will appreciate your complete list in due course. As you will be well aware, because so many...
No, 1971, a year before Marwell opened.
1971 and every year since.
Marwell still has a range of rare antelopes and 3 species of zebra. So nothing "has happened".
The "problem" with soft play areas is, by their very nature, that they are noisy.. At Marwell the café in the gift shop was in fact opened at the...
Oh dear. In zoo-speak "fun" and "families" means costume characters, face-painting and play areas. A disaster if so.
Very sad; can only hope that good alternative use of the building will follow. Does closure on the 31st mean that the new reptile building will...
Excellent photographs that evoke memories of my visit there in 1961; I have the guidebook of that year in which I have marked the route that the...
Some confusion going on here; firstly I assume you meant bongo, not okapi, enclosure. If so, the enclosure shown in the photo IS the bongo...
Correct; there were probably five or six fairly young animals.
Its not illegal to light a fire or have a sharp knife but that does not mean there are no associated risks, or regulations and laws in place to...
A pair of what?
"And what is even more curious - older maps show bush dog in the enclosure where they have returned" . Not so, the original bush dog enclosure...
A few points I don't understand - perhaps I never did get the perceived "branding" image of what "Lemur Loop" meant. I thought it just meant the...
Thank you for confirming that the hand-reared giraffe was with the okapi; I had memories that was the case but unable to prove it. I am not aware...
How many remember the first enclosure from the main entrance along the (woodland side) of the South Road? An aviary for budgerigars - not a...
There will be more animals- fish in the stream, for example - in Thriving Through Nature; the first animals were only introduced a few days ago...
While your interest in the collection is appreciated and updates on changes during the year are helpful, this list is not a full species list and...
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