The enclosure that held the 3 is being demolished as part of the chimp area redevelopment I think. Something else I forgot to mention was that I heard the Madagascar Road train driver say that after the Wolf enclosure, the next 3 contained African Hunting Dogs, so I guess that's it for the Jackals!
I will admit I didn't stop to look at the mangabeys, but I did notice there were only three colobus. If it is true that the jackals are gone, then that would be an even greater shame. The number of species disappearing from Colchester compared to the number arriving seems really high at the moment.
The jackals are not going anywhere. They have actually been moved temporarily so the new wolves can move into their until they have been mixed. As soon as the wolves are together then the jackals will return.
Lucky to see the Aaardvarks i never ever ever see them awake lol! As another poster has said colchester does seem to be loosing a lot of species recently. Why board up the fish tanks for example
visited sunday only 3 zebras out in the paddock and no sight of them inside!! not sure where the others have gone .
On a visit today noticed signage stating that the King Vultures are currently sitting on eggs...so fingers crossed!
Had a good few hours' visit to Colchester today. The one major new thing that I noted was that there are at least two blue duikers in a separation enclosure at the back of the renovated blue crane exhibit (opposite the mandrills). I visited the enclosure three times during the day, and saw them on two occasions. They are not currently featured on any signage. Also one of the two duikers only has three legs.
quick trip this afternoon, 1. only one female Slender-snouted crocodile on show sign up saying there showing aggression to each other. 2. Pembe has now left the collection, otto was out in the paddock. 3. work still carries on with the chimps enclosure 4. red pandas are still split up one in the old enclosure and one in the new 5. the young Komodo dragon area windows is now boarded up 6. zoo only has two male red-capped mangabey left in the collection
Do you know why and what happened to the others? It was only a year or so ago they imported three new females to add to their existing group of 2.2. What has gone wrong?
I am pretty sure that the 3 females of the 1.3 mangabeys that arrived recently in Apenheul are from Colchester.
Yes, this was reported previously and didn't make any sense to me. I'm wondering if they had problems integrating them at Colchester, which is why they were sent away again, unless they were just being held at Colchester for Apenheul, but that doesn't make much sense either. Colchester seem to have gone from a reasonable group of these, to almost nothing now.
This is a worrying trend at Colchester, the Colobus are down to 3 as well from about 7 last year! The Zebra numbers are falling.... They currently have 7 komodo dragon enclosures, which I think is excessive!
I personally think it is high time that Colchester substituted one of their female crocodiles for a male. After all, they are a Critically Endangered species, and the new enclosure is such a massive improvement on the last one. That could also free up the second female for somewhere else to try breeding them - Crocodiles of the World certainly managed to look after them well enough, perhaps they would like one of them? Was this just in the main 'Mangabey Forest' enclosure (I'll admit I didn't stop to look on my last visit)? Definitely saw one in the second managabey enclosure (by the chimpanzee development) although the walkway to view them was blocked off.
The problem is that the vast majority of Slenders in European collections are either Emmen-born or descended from Emmen stock - as such, unrelated males may be hard to obtain.
