1. I have no further news on Kala but presume she is making/has made a full recovery. Whether she can breed again in due course remains to be seen. 2. Kukena is being prepared for a move sometime soon, but I don't know when or where to. 3. Kera only became pregnant by Komale, not Jock who doesn't mate her afaik, so contraception might not even be necessary. I doubt she will ever breed again now Komale has left- she is more just a 'filler' for the group now I think.
The zoo turned green for the 'Go Green for Dyslexia' campaign. Bristol Zoo Gardens goes green in aid of dyslexia | Bristol Zoo
Do any of my fellow Zoochatters have an update on Kala the female gorilla who's baby daughter passed away at only a week old? I'm wondering if she's recovered yet and has the house reopened? Also any update on the movement of Kukenga Jock and Salomies daughter? Just before I stop mentioning the Western Lowland gorillas are any new females coming to join Jock in his conally? Also I hope there's another uneventful gorilla pregnancy and birth relitivly soon? Also as you already know Lady Hillary the Red Panda passed away, as a result does anyone know if a new female has arrived to join Chota and form a new breeding pair? Also how are Sonika and Sahee the new Asiatic lion pairing getting on? "I sencirly hope that they have cubs one day". Kind regards The Hedgehog!
Bristol Zoo news - moment a tiny pancake tortoise hatched at Bristol Zoo. This is the magical moment when a tiny pancake tortoise began to hatch at Bristol Zoo Gardens | Bristol Zoo
Visited a week last Saturday on one of the odd sunny days, the gorilla house was open again and all seam to be going on as normal with the troop, didn’t see the red panda but i rarely do so no surprise there the lions are getting on well both where asleep on top of each other on the raised platform towards the back of the enclosure.
I chatted by a staff member about the male drill. they said that they are still hoping to move him to Barcelona zoo. but things are taking longer. they wanted to move him before Brexit x
BBC Inside Out West recently broadcast an interesting piece on Bristol’s last Polar bears, well worth a view if anyone’s interested. Of particular note I didn’t know Alison Cronin had links to the zoo. Has anyone read the book mentioned in the piece, “The Wild Within?” Any good?
A pair of pygmy slow lorises living off-show at Bristol Zoo have recently become first-time parents to twins. Information comes from a more general fact page about lorises, included below: Cute but venomous: meet the pygmy slow loris | Bristol Zoo
Two blue-spotted tree monitors have recently hatched at Bristol Zoo. They are the first of their species ever bred in a UK zoo. More information can be found in the link below: First for Bristol Zoo as endangered lizards hatch | Bristol Zoo
Very nice breeding-result but the information in the article is IMO not completly correct. It said there are about 70 of this species in captivity world-wide but alone in Europe already 39 public collections are keeping the species and I'm sure also in private hands at least an equal number ( but prob. a lot more ) are kept !