I recently received a leaflet for this zoo and it looks very interesting, so I plan to visit it later in the year! It says it has 11 species of toucan, paca, prehensile tailed porcupine and two sub- species of tamandua! I was wondering if anyone has a complete spcies list or indeed have been and could give a reveiw! i love collection that specialise!
There's a review in one of the international zoo news editions that are still online, here you go (hit CTRL-F to find it ) : http://www.zoonews.ws/IZN/325/IZN-325.htm If you go, we do expect foto's and a report!
I've bee. It is brilliant. They have crested Quetzal, Plate mountain toucans and many other rare birds. When I went the tapir was kept in an awful exhibit, so i hope that It's sorted out now.
These are the one I think they have: Plate billed mountain toucan Toco toucan Swainson's toucan Red breasted toucan Red billed toucan Channel billed toucan Black necked aracari Collared Aracari
I will try to post some more detailed comments about Amazon World in the next few days or so, but I would reccomend it VERY highly to anyone who likes seeing rarities (which I guess means everybody on this website!). The tamanduas are my favourite but there are lots of really exciting species to see, and its all quite imaginately laid-out. Not your average small zoo at all! Actually, I'd add that its worth checking that the other 2 main IOW animal collections mentioned in that article - Sandown is making some very big improvements and has really come a long way in a fairly short time. Flamingo Park isn't very big and looks a bit unremarkable on the surface, but its still a very pleasant place to visit.
No. The penguin was nicked from Flamingo Park, a bird park also on the IOW. It was never seen again. The parents have reared another since then.
... the penguin was not "nicked" from flamingo park,it was amazon world! 80%of the animals kept at amazon world are all indoors in big green houses with unbearable heat (and smell!) if you want to see how a zoo shouldn't be run then amazon world is the place to go!some of the enclosures are a nice design,but they are still 2 small....fact!
It was amazon world that the penguin was stolen from. A friend of mine visited the place a few months back and said it was a terrible place but had an interesting collection.
If you think this place is bad i could name at least a few that are one hell of alot worse than Amazon World but i won`t for legal reasons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Any way the place cannot be that bad as the place has quite a resonable breeding record with some of its mammals its also bred species that many more established zoos have failed with.
Sorry for the essay guys, but this zoo really got to me.... yes it is true i have been to many zoos and still amazon world showed me some animals i cannot ever remember seeing before. HOWEVER the encolusures were unbelivably bare and many of the animals appeared very distressed. I could not believe the state of their meerkats with their huge overwight bellies and chewed tails and glazed expression. Yeah you may never have seen some of their toucans before, but do you really want to see such a beautiful bird in cage where it could hop from one side to the other (not even needing to fly) and has just a partner, a perch and a food bowl with no other enrichment or place to hide? you really may aswell look at a photo! What really annoyed me was that there were "enclosures" with plastic crops in them, demonstrating where peppers etc grow, which were bigger than the animal enclosures, where is the sense in that? The animals at amazon world are strange, new and exciting, until you look up close! (and that is if you can bare the heat and smell in the buildings to stay and look for long enough). The park also has great playing facilites for kids and does seem to try and do its bit for conservation, but i have seen other zoos and parks where animals look great in captivity and this place is just the opposite. Also their slogan, "something new every time", what happens to the animals taken off exhibit? are they sent to somewhere else and put throught the stress of being moved and learning a new routine somwhere else? or are they hidden in even worse cages out the back somehwere for a couple of seasons? a dog is for life, not just for xmas!!! They have the money, the space and the animals, they just need to sort themselves out!
exactly!i couldn't have put it any better myself! yes they do breed alot of endangered species,but when you see the enclosures they are kept it,its no wonder they breed so successfully because they haven't got anything better to do! it is horrible....simple as that. FACT
They do not breed from their toucans. Why? Because they are all kept in barren, indoor aviaries with very little height. It's scandalous that they should hold species like the plate-billed mountain toucan and not seriously attempt to breed from it. The zoo was 'themed' as a mayan temple a few years ago, but tropical south american animals live in the forest, not in temples, and the concrete theming just looks like breeze blocks painted a sandy colour. The tamandua, prehensile-tailed porcupine and ocelot enclosures seem to ignor the fact these animals are arboreal. I don't think they have many tamandua left? The 'tomb' for desert species is even worse, tiny, indoor spaces for meerkats, armadillos and fennec foxes. There was a fire in this part of the zoo a couple of years back and the fennecs died, only to be replaced by more. It is novel and bold to try and exhibit tropical species in an indoor 'biome', but as many aviculturists and zoo keepers will tell you, there is no substitute for fresh air, no matter how near the equator a species originates from. It is odd seeing flamingoes and monkeys in a greenhouse. They don't have any hummingbirds, these obviously didn't last despite their website still mentioning them, I think ISIS lists a few single sunbirds still at the collection. I really wish they'd either take their responsibilities seriously or send their stock to collections better able to provide for them. In five years time I think Amazon zoo world will have far fewer noteworthy species as their ability to import stock to replace exsting animals decreases.
I've uploaded some pictures of amazon world onto the gallery (there are more in my gallery-I uploaded about 20) They are all taken from video, so that is why they are at a lower quality...
the only birds they have got there now that were in those pictures are the toucans! being in a glass greenhouse i should imagine they get broken panels of glass and the birds escape!
