Join our zoo community

Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens Cotswold Wildlife Park news 2009

Discussion in 'United Kingdom' started by kiang, 23 Feb 2009.

  1. Pertinax

    Pertinax Well-Known Member 15+ year member

    Joined:
    5 Dec 2006
    Posts:
    20,707
    Location:
    england
    Unless there is a fresh import, their future seems to depend on the single female at each place. Cotswold have the pair(+new baby) and two other males seperately. I think one of these 'pairs' comprises the last survivors of the Twycross group.
     
  2. foz

    foz Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    14 Aug 2008
    Posts:
    1,360
    Location:
    England
    didn't some of the langurs come from belfast??? i think i read it here on zoochat somewhere, or at least some langurs joined the langurs at cotswolds???

    please correct me if im wrong.
     
  3. zoogiraffe

    zoogiraffe Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    12 Sep 2007
    Posts:
    6,338
    Location:
    Middlewich,Cheshire U.K
    All the Languars came from Belfast apart from the ones at Edinburgh which came from Perth.
     
  4. ZooLeopard

    ZooLeopard Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    14 Oct 2009
    Posts:
    836
    Location:
    N/A
    Do CWP have any plans on mixing the giraffe with zebra, rhino etc?
     
  5. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

    Joined:
    12 Oct 2007
    Posts:
    5,387
    Location:
    Chesterfield, Derbyshire
    Very unlikely. The current rhino/zebra and future giraffe paddocks are separated by a footpath, a railway and a leopard enclosure, and they've just done up the Rhino House. It's possible they could run something in with the giraffes but I've not heard any suggestion that they will at all.
     
  6. zoogiraffe

    zoogiraffe Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    12 Sep 2007
    Posts:
    6,338
    Location:
    Middlewich,Cheshire U.K
    Well the Zebra and Rhino are alreaday mixed their would be no easy way of adding the Giraffes into the mix but they mix something with the Giraffes.
     
  7. zoogiraffe

    zoogiraffe Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    12 Sep 2007
    Posts:
    6,338
    Location:
    Middlewich,Cheshire U.K
    Crossed posting!!
     
  8. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

    Joined:
    12 Oct 2007
    Posts:
    5,387
    Location:
    Chesterfield, Derbyshire
    Yes, and spookily we gave exactly the same answer!
     
  9. kiang

    kiang Well-Known Member 15+ year member

    Joined:
    12 Aug 2007
    Posts:
    6,063
    Location:
    Argyllshire
    There was a pair that came to Edinburgh from Perth of which one of the animals, the female i think died.
    The rest of the animals in the Edinburgh group were imported from Singapore.
    3 years ago.
     
  10. Pertinax

    Pertinax Well-Known Member 15+ year member

    Joined:
    5 Dec 2006
    Posts:
    20,707
    Location:
    england
    Didn't the last ones at Twycross go to Cotswold? If not, what happened to the last Twycross ones?:confused:
     
  11. RTB1987

    RTB1987 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    7 Mar 2009
    Posts:
    144
    Location:
    UK
    i think the last ones did go from Twycross to CWP. I think it was mother and son
     
  12. Pertinax

    Pertinax Well-Known Member 15+ year member

    Joined:
    5 Dec 2006
    Posts:
    20,707
    Location:
    england
    Then maybe the female which has had this new baby isn't that one, as the article says they are 'first time' parents.

    If anyone knows exactly the origins of the two 'pairs' (3 males, 1 female) at Cotswold Wildlife Park, I'd be interested to hear.:)
     
  13. zoogiraffe

    zoogiraffe Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    12 Sep 2007
    Posts:
    6,338
    Location:
    Middlewich,Cheshire U.K
    Cotswold took the last of Twycross and Belfast
     
  14. Malachi

    Malachi Member

    Joined:
    17 Nov 2009
    Posts:
    18
    Location:
    Edinburgh
    The female langur at Edinburgh gave birth overnight and the infant is doing well. Unsexed as yet but the last three have all been male ......
     
  15. Pertinax

    Pertinax Well-Known Member 15+ year member

    Joined:
    5 Dec 2006
    Posts:
    20,707
    Location:
    england
    Thanks for the information, ZooGiraffe.
     
  16. foz

    foz Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    14 Aug 2008
    Posts:
    1,360
    Location:
    England
    I was looking through zootierliste and found that brazilian procupine were listed with cotswold wildlife park, there doesn't seem to be a mention of prorcupine on their usually accurate cotswold website. Is this a mistake of zootierliste as I hadn't heard about these at cotswolds?

    ZootierlisteHomepage
     
  17. Zambar

    Zambar Well-Known Member 15+ year member 10+ year member 5+ year member

    Joined:
    4 Mar 2008
    Posts:
    1,612
    Location:
    Hampshire, United Kingdom
    Dom told us he had seen that in the Bat House on a recent visit. Though I've got to admit the site isn't as on the dot as it used to be; there's been no mention of the Warty Pigs whatsoever for example.
     
  18. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

    Joined:
    12 Oct 2007
    Posts:
    5,387
    Location:
    Chesterfield, Derbyshire
    Don't know if someone has seen this since you posted but they're definitely on there:

    ZootierlisteHomepage

    Listed as 'Negros Warty Pig', don't know if that threw you? (I quite often get caught out by the common names on Zootierliste)
     
  19. Zambar

    Zambar Well-Known Member 15+ year member 10+ year member 5+ year member

    Joined:
    4 Mar 2008
    Posts:
    1,612
    Location:
    Hampshire, United Kingdom
    I mean on the Cotswold WP's website. ;)
     
  20. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

    Joined:
    12 Oct 2007
    Posts:
    5,387
    Location:
    Chesterfield, Derbyshire
    Ah! With you.

    They do seem to have slipped the net there.