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A Colombian black spider monkey has been born.

Just hanging around: rare spider monkey born at Fota Wildlife Park - Independent.ie

 

An Agile gibbon has been born, sex unknown.

https://www.facebook.com/FOTAWILDLIFE/photos/pcb.10154006727236818/10154006706986818/?type=3&theater

 

Doing my work experience all this week hopefully will get some more info on what species of bear are coming

 

All the best for your week ahead

 

Sun bear perhaps?

 

The keepers are hopeful for Sun bears. Malayan tapir and black crowned crane are also possibilities

 

Would that not be black necked crane?

 

Balearica pavonina

 

But that is an African bird?

 

Yes the keeper didn't go into much detail about them so there probably going into the African area as Fota is hoping to divide into Africa(hoofstock area), Asia and South America (lake and monkeys area)

 

Rothschild Giraffe, Sapphire gave birth to a female calf on 18th April

 

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Zootierliste says Fota have black lemur and squirrel monkeys ? Additions to fill empty islands I wonder or just an error

 

I remember there being free ranging squirrel monkeys a few years ago so possibly an error. Im unsure about the black lemurs they weren't there on my last visit in October anyway.

 

0:1 A 4 year old Sumatran Tiger arrived on the 5th of June from South Lakes Safari Zoo. The female is called 'Mayang'

 

0:0:1 Sumatran Tiger cub born on the 7th of May to 'Denar' and 'Dourga'
Sumatran Tiger Cub born at Fota Wildlife Park

 

0.0.4 Northern Cheetah have been born

 

Nimphy is the mum of the litter of two males and two females. The cubs are her second litter this year and join their 6 month old brother Okasie EAST CORK: Fota Wildlife Park welcomes 4 Cheetah Cubs

 

Visited today. Big news, lion cubs due soon! One of the females separated in her own. Also big construction work going on at the tapirs, the Pygmy goat is gone and a state of the art South American enclosure is being built with an aviary. The grey cheeked mangabys have moved and occupy the house that joins to the two islands beside the old lion tailed macaque island. The old lion tailed island is still occupied by the make and a juvenile outcast, a waste of such a large island. The colobus have moved to the Mangabys old house and there is no longer electric fencing between the meerkats. The colobus leave beind an empty island. Seen the cheetah cubs and the tiger cub.

 

I thought they had planned to move the tapirs up to the islands area to create a south american area?

 

the construction work is underway and there's a sign up with the plans of it. Yeah it would make more sense to move the Tapirs to the islands !