Dudley Zoological Gardens Dudley Zoological Gardens in 2015

Ring tailed lemur babies

Ring-tailed lemur twins were born on April 21st and are on show in the small primate house.
New baby lemur twins! | Dudley Zoological Gardens

 

I was wondering does anyone have the history of the Bears that have been located at Dudley please?

 

New male Parma wallaby

A four year old male Parma wallaby has translocated to DZG from Cotswold Wildlife park and gardens. He has joined DZG's 4 females as part of a breeding programme.

G?day Alf! | Dudley Zoological Gardens

 

What happened to the last male?

 

Two Egyptian fruit bats have been born.

Celebrating with baby bats! | Dudley Zoological Gardens

 

Been today, it's in what used to be the shop.

Other updates - Snow leopards are shut out of their outdoor enclosure. One of the tigers has smashed a glass viewing window which is boarded up with plywood, super secure I'm sure... Sealion male is separated from females. Still no sign of male lion. All chimps were outside exploring the enclosure, never seen them do that before!

 

Do they even have a male lion?

 

Window in the tiger indoor enclosure was smashed over a week ago question is why hasn't it been fixed by now

No male lion now for quite some time now. makes you wonder if they will ever get one or are they hoping the females get moved on so they can utilise the enclosure for another species.

I do wonder what direction the zoo will go in now that they have a new CEO (I thin k the tiger window would have been fixed well before now under the old CEO),

I wonder what will replace the bear species when Inca passes on.

 

I was wondering if no male lion may suggest that one or both female is pregnant, but it's been over a year now so that's a no. Really surprised they haven't got one by now, maybe they are hoping to change species? I'm doubting they'd go out of lions though seeing as the enclosure is still fairly new.
What do we know about the new ceo? I didn't realise there was one yet.

 

Visited today, nice to see the new animals and all of the old timers up and about (well, Inca was outside at least).

The bat enclosure seemed decently sized to me, but it's right by the exit, so they are constantly having light flash into their home. They didn't seem fussed though.

The BBC were doing some sort of filming on the site, I think it might have been something period. I thought I saw people dressed rather old-fashioned outside the gate and they had an old Moris van outside the cafe.

 

Lamna - was the window @ the tiger indoor viewing area fixed or is it still boarded up?

 

Still broken, but it looked secure enough to me. The glass is cracked, not smashed.

 

A time lapse of bear ravine tecton restoration;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dz31ZLPdk8

 

The Carpathian Lynx triplets are now one year old. Also, the male snow leopard (Margaash, father to Makalu) is now five years old.

Purr-fect presents for big cat birthdays! | Dudley Zoological Gardens

How long will it be until the Lynx triplets have to move elsewhere?

 

New DZG entrance due to be completed this September!

Making an entrance! | Dudley Zoological Gardens

 

New baby Carpathian lynx twins

Meet our baby lynx twins! | Dudley Zoological Gardens

Born on 20th May they are the second litter from parents Daisy and Dave, who had triplets last year. They have just started to venture outdoors.

 

I wonder if this will speed up the need to move last year's cubs on to new collections. I doubt the enclosure is big enough to house 7 lynx

 

A new £20,000 children's play area has been built at the base of the Gelada enclosure where the picnic tables used to be. Sadly, it does not appear to have reduced the size of the fairground.
Ready, steady, play! | Dudley Zoological Gardens

Hopefully, this means that the old play area next to the camels will be demolished and the camels will be given more space. If so, this will be another step in the right direction.

 

Ha, I suggested something like that on the first page of this topic, nice to see it happen. I'll be expecting a commission.

Hope they give the camels more space too, and clear away the fairground. What's the point in a slick new entrance when the first thing you see is all that old rubbish. Does anyone even use it? I don't remember ever seeing anyone on any of the rides.

Speaking of the camels, they are halter trained, domestic camels right? Could they be let out on the Rhea paddock? It would be a sinful geographic mix but they'd have more room and some proper grazing, assuming they could get along with the rhea, a goat and a geriatric guanaco.

 

I remembered you suggesting it as soon as I saw the news article. I know some of the keepers are regular visitors to zoochat, so maybe your idea got the ball rolling

I really like your idea about the camels. It would be great to see them in all that space, which is literally across the path from them, until their current enclosure is extended. However, I hope that the ravine is eventually turned into something spectacular for a brand new species.

Is it bad that I'm starting to miss the Dudley Zoo from my childhood? I guess I'm becoming old and sentimental. But I suppose progress is progress.


Btw has anyone heard from 'Angel'. They haven't been on here for a while now. Hope they're alright.