I was wondering which zoo might have the best collection of different Ibis species? According to the list recently posted by @Chlidonias of...
So. To the USA for a week. And following trips to California, in 2017, and Ohio and Chicago, in 2018, this year it is to the Empire State - and...
As part of the promotion for her new children’s book, Don’t Let Them Disappear, Chelsea Clinton has been appearing at a number of US zoos - Bronx,...
An interesting piece from the Guardian, putting the boot into the ACTP in Germany, and its “colourful” owner Martin Guth... ‘A legitimate zoo?’...
So, summer is here, and the English school term is near its conclusion (or, at least, it is in sensible schools - there are some which have...
I’m in the tentative stage of planning a US trip for the coming summer: a week or so, flying in, then driving around, visiting as many good zoos...
I wonder whether any Zoochat members have any knowledge of Lex Noordermeer. Lex was one of the first European zoo enthusiasts I got to know: he...
There are two safari parks close to Madrid, each of which goes a little under the radar. Does anyone have any experience of either of them? The...
The 28th Zoohistorica meeting is now just under two months away. It will be in Wroclaw - the third occasion on which it has been held in Poland...
The title of this thread references a blasting track from Ian McNabb; I would include a Youtube link, but the strange computer in my motel won't...
Following this indie-pop referencing thread describing visits to a few UK collections, a few thoughts on a recent two day visit to the north of...
A fairly esoteric enquiry! In the 1962 annual report for the ZSL, two "crested ridge rats" are listed as having joined the collection; no...
In 1962, six Mountain Beavers (Aplodontia rufa) arrived at London Zoo. No mention of any Mountain Beavers in Europe is on Zootierliste; Weigl's...
I must confess to having long felt rather Marius-ed out - possibly not least because the argument is one that is never going to reach an easy...
For the past day or so, I had been unable to view any photos on Zoochat. Thumbnails - on the home page, for example - are absent; if i attempt...
Coming soon - the 9th to the 11th of September - is the 27th Zoohistorica meeting, in Zurich. This will be the first time it has been held in...
So, a number of people have recently posted of their forthcoming summer zoo trips. Each July, at the end of the academic year, I like to head off...
In the 1959 Annual Report for the ZSL, a new species is listed as having arrived in the collection: the Pale Capuchin, Cebus apella pallidus....
Really awful, lazy piece from today's Guardian, trotting out the usual old rubbish about zoos, and hitching it to the Seaworld 'non-breeding'...
The list of vertebrates held at london Zoo between 1828 and 1927 includes a servaline cat (Felis servalina) received in 1874; it is listed as...
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