wow that was quick, when did the other anteater arrive, it was only last year i visited and they had just the one.
A giant anteater was born at the park, Wednesday 26th May. Amazon World Zoo Park's Photos - Baby Giant Anteater | Facebook A female tamandua has also been introduced to a resident male. Amazon World Zoo Park | Facebook
Facebook page says a pair of Maroon Breasted Crowned Pigeons have arrived and thier 4 male Ring-tailed Coatis and 4 male Squirrel Monkeys have moved in with the pair of Howler Monkeys.
Small news The youngster has since been sexed a female and her name has just been revealed as Kachiri (after a South American tribe) 0:1 Three Banded Armadillo has recently arrived from Longleat
Amazon World have recently imported Dagobert a male Nine Banded Armadillo from Artis Zoo, Amsterdam, he is the fifth species at Amazon World, who now house all five species represented in European zoos, which are: Screaming Hairy Armadillo, Larger Hairy Armadillo, 3 Banded Armadillo, Six Banded Armadillo and Nine Banded Armadillo.
so has anyone visited here recently and can give an update on how/if the enclosures have improved? Tomek has photos in the gallery from 2011 but only portrait shots, and the next most-recent are back from 2005 I think.
I visited last summer and whilst some of the enclosures had been improved (including a new, reasonably functional, Lemur walk-through and a much-improved Tamandua exhibit) there's still a lot of work to be done -a number of indoor enclosures were not much bigger than cupboards and the Otter enclosure was particularly grim.
Trawling through their Facebook page I see they have bred - prehensile-tailed porcupine , larger hairy and 3-banded armadillo , ocelot , S. American tapir , sloth , pigmy slow loris , maroon-breasted and southern crowned pigeon - in last year .
Two two-toed sloths have been born to different mothers this autumn . They have now recorded 11 births in total .
