Favourite animals at Chester and top 5 you want them to get

Your first three will never be seen at Chester. the zoo's collection plan excludes species from Australia and North America, only because the zoo has no conservation projects in those countries. And they do not intend tostart any, the Americans and Australians are doing a great job on their own. Loris and hippos could appear in the future.

I'd like to see an herd of common hippo, West Midlands Safari Park have a group and it looks great.

Malayan tapir is one of my favourite species as well, much nicer than the American tapirs

 

Would it be possible for hippos in Grasslands?

 

I would say yes.

 

my favourite would be any thing with feathers on

5 to bring in would be

Maned wolf
Bearded pig
Brown horn headed lizard
Chestnut bellied sandgrouse
Chinstrap penguin or Bearded penguin

 

the lizard was held at Chester 2013-2014

 

Its pretty much impossible to say what are my favourite species at Chester, there are so many! But for some I'd like them to get...

Sifaka (My top choice, and one I actually think could happen realistically)
Sand Cat
Fennec Fox
Rusty Spotted Cat
Koala (I know its been pretty much ruled out, but I can dream!)

I would have had Pallas Cats pretty high up on my wish list - tick!

 

I think clouded leopard would be an absolutely wonderful addition.

 

My favourite animals by far are the okapi, Javan green magpie, sitatunga and black rhino:

I’d love to see:
•Gerenuk
•Clouded Leopard
•African Leopard(or Arabian)
•Pied Kingfisher
•Springbok

 

Having looked back on this thread recently, as the zoos collection has developed I’ve come up with a few new animals that may make sense. My original 5 still stand of course.

1- crowned or verraux’s sifaka. Either of these species would go nicely in the cut off lemur exhibit in the new Madagascar zone and would be a nice round off of the zoos lemur collection, bringing it to 5 species. The first isn’t a hard species to obtain with several collections holding it however im unsure about the second.

2- Bornean bearded pig. A personal favourite of mine that could do nicely on a spruce up anoa island or perhaps if the spotted deer ever move to islands, they could perhaps take that area. They’d be a nice Bornean species, and another good hoof stock addition to the zoo, taking the number of “pigs” to 4. Again this is another species easily obtainable with a need for conservation.

3- helmeted Guineafowl. A nice little species to join the tsavo aviary with their permed cousins. One or two could make that aviary even more dynamic, though a problem is children may try to re-enact the opening of the lion king :/

4- is the long shot. Philippine eagle. Highly endangered, this species needs highlighting in my opinion as it’s a wonderful bird. Not only does it fit in with the plans the zoo has collection wise, geographically, but it would fill the void of a big raptor species I’m sure many would like to see filled again, yes we have the current European vultures, but they’re not as grand. Plus if other islands aviaries are anything to go by, bar the lorry and to some extent magpie, I’m sure it’d be a cracking enclosure.

5- the return of rhinoceros iguana. I choose this species as it is a nice large reptile that could replace the void left by the Galapagos tortoises. It’s big enough and well known enough, plus who doesn’t like another big lizard for the zoo! I think with enough modifications to it, perhaps the old Galapagos tortoise enclosure could house them, however it’d make sense to move around some of the smaller animals and put them say in the caiman lizard viv.

And that’s my ideas, far more fleshed out than last time. I’m sure they’ll all be shot down but hey a man can try to dream can’t he!

 

Bornean bearded pig easily obtainable from where? Last I checked there are only four left in Europe....2 at Berlin and 2 at London. All elderly animals too :/ unless you mean an import from Indonesia?

 

Good luck with the Bearded Pig! Don't think there's a viable group left in Europe!

 

Sorry we posted virtually the same time! As I sent my post your email notification came through ShonenJake13

 

My mistake, I was still under the assumption London still had a sizeable group, then again I’ve not visited in a long time and don’t follow London developments as closely as say Chester or BWCP. I hope the species could make a resurgence in Europe, but if not I’m sure Chester could import some from Indonesia if they ever chose to work with that species.

 

I think the caiman lizard enclosure would be way too small.

 

On second thoughts yes.

 

They did have, but they stopped breeding them.

 

how does that compare in size with the chameleon viv by the entrance to the aye-ayes? It was built for Rhinoceros Iguana.

 

Five years ago London had a group of 3.6.0, now they’re down to just 1.1.0 sadly...

 

That is still quite small. The old giant tortoise enclosure would be best.