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For those planning a visit, Islands is looking quite sorry for itself at the moment... Aside from the issues around Monsoon Forest, the canal and many waterways have now been drained, the cassowaries are separated by a temporary fence and the banteng are confined to their off-show paddock. It's a strange feeling walking around, especially on a weekday when the zoo is much quieter.
Noticed Napo following Goshi around today, baby sun bear and mum out in the enclosure nearer the orangs (I believe they are usually in the tiger end), no giant otter pups @Waddi and that's about it from me. Was the sign for a new born Okapi not taken down from last year, as there is one as you walk in (sure I saw it there before)?
Nice to hear that the two jaguars are still together, I hope both can stay at Chester following recent revelations. Presumably if the zoo was to obtain another male with a view to breeding Goshi, it would be possible to keep Napo as well, particularly if both sides of the exhibit were utilised for the jaguars and Bernie the bear moved back to his normal enclosure?
I noticed this and it must be for Semuliki’s birth, as I thought K’tusha is the only female the zoo have. After Stuma’s death, did the zoo ever acquire another adult breeding female?
How many Okapi's do Chester have ? I saw two (a mother and young) around November time, but the foal was probably 5/6 months old then.
A baby Okapi is a calf not a foal. They should have 3.1 at the moment unless they're have been any recent changes
They are: Dicky, Stomp (mature males) Semuliki (Young male although he has been weaned by now as okapi are at 6+ months) And K’tusha (mature female) So do Chester have plans to occupy a new female replacement for Stuma?
All of the hornbill aviaries & the top floor of the tropical realm have been fenced off due to maintenance work though unclear as to what is happening.
Not sure if any of this has been reported anywhere before on one of the threads, could be old news but if so I've forgotten! The chattering lories at the Bali Temple aviary have been replaced by Purple-naped Lories. The Radiated Tortoise 'house-within-a-house' in the Tropical House/Realm is now complete and occupied. Baby giraffe was on show today; appears to be the first day it has been.
Had a couple of hours at the zoo today the only notable observations were both within the first 5 minutes. A few days old Spider Monkey was on show & also the Elephant house was closed with a vet sign in place.
Some happier news from a trip to Chester Zoo yesterday. There was a baby porcupine born yesterday morning!
Visited today and all the attractions (aside from monsoon forest) are open except the Giraffe/Okapi house as there has been a giraffe born! Unfortunately, I couldn't get any details as to parentage or gender but I did spot some channel 4 crew entering the house. Also, the top floor of tropical realm was open and a pair of Blue-necked tanagers (Tangara cyanicollis) were in the aviary with the trogons. Lastly, saw both the porcupines & wattled cranes but neither seemed to have any young following previous porcupine birth & crane egg sighting...
Possibly, they may move him back if they want to breed again, also I suppose it depends on the bears themselves and whether they think moving them will be detrimental or not, I'm not sure how many times they have moved them around. The sun bears seem to be in the same enclosure (not sure now with the cub) but Bernie and Lima I'm not sure about.
I can tell you despite the posting that Bernie had moved last year on here,he hasn't left the Jaguar House since he was moved when the cub was born.As of yesterday he was still in the Jaguar House being crate trained but it could be a couple of weeks before he moves,due to a member of staff being on holiday.But I am sure somebody on here knows more than me as after all I know nothing!!
They have also put a better fence in place to split the enclosure, which would stop any potential future cubs crossing the temporary hot fence.
