7 year old female Indian rhino Maya, arrived from French zoo Nantes?. It was born in Rotherdam zoo. I was in Fota on Monday but the weather was shocking and it was hard to see very much. I spent some time watching the lions and they are magnificent in their large wooded enclosure, and the tapirs, capybaras and Rhea were quite active. the Madagascar complex looks ok but they are still working on the island enclosures so it's too early to really comment. There is preparation building work on the proposed Takin and Bear enclosures, but it's unlikely that these will be finished this year. Fota is a very large flat park in the middle of Cork harbour so it's very exposed when the weather is bad. The management are aware of this and are working towards adding more sheltered areas. There were no keepers about so I did'nt get to chat with anyone. It is strange that they have females only of some fairly rare animals, Philippine deer, roloway monkey and Francois langer for a few years and no sign of males being added as of yet.
Why? Is she a 'difficult' female with males? Also, why Maya was transferred? Wasn't she getting along well with the male Ajang?
Maya is related to Ajang so they can't breed. It was always clear that Maya was in Branfere temporarly. Saar has problem with her cycle. She was put with Maya to see if it can change something. For the moment not. Maybe Saar's cycle will be better with the new female coming. Fingers crossed.
But this will not be the problem of Branfere now I think it's the first female for Fota and they can learn from her for a first step. After, we know that thete is a lack of place for indian rhinos in Europe and Fota can welcome more so...
Just finished watching the second episode from yesterday, which features: -the birth of the baby agile gibbon born in August 2018 -red panda bros, Koda and Lionel, being transferred to Longleat -and, like the first episode from two weekends ago, the director and one of the keepers travel to Vanatori Neamt Nature Park in Romania, to look for two female European bison reintroduced from Fota in 2014. So far, I think this is a really interesting series, and overall it is quite different from the Dublin Zoo series.
From yesterday's episode: -a look at the conservation of corncrakes and natterjack toads in Ireland -the arrival of the roloway monkeys -the sloth settling into the Tropical House -and the births of the scimitar-horned oryx calves from June 2018 and the quadruplet cheetah cubs from November 2018. What I thought was interesting was that they said that the white mane on the back of a newborn cheetah makes it look like a honey badger, a fact that I had never known until now.
Have been following this series and it is quite well done. The keepers come across very well and the information they give is very interesting. The story of the bullying zebras harassing any new animals esp. baby oryx or maras was very well explained. Does anyone know if the second male rhino (from benidorm) is still at the park or has it died/moved on.
Just finished watching the last episode of the series, which featured: -A look at some conservation efforts in Madagascar to protect the ploughshare tortoise and Madagascar pochard from extinction -Breeding from the Humboldt penguins and the elongated tortoises -And we watch as Dharma the Sumatran tiger grows from a cub before her move to Edinburgh zoo. As I had mentioned before on this thread, I saw Dharma having a snooze during a visit to Edinburgh in July. What I would be interested to know is if they're making a second series, because I would love to see footage of the transfers of the bears and takin after both species arrive in Fota.
Yes I did see 3 when I was there in early Feb, but when the female arrival was announced soon after, only the pair were mentioned. So I assumed shusto was going to leave.
There is a lack of potential holders, I believe. Since, Fota has the space ..., I am sure that the surplus male will remain on site for some time.
3.0 Northern cheetah cubs were born on 17th March (St. Patrick's Day) to mother Gráinne (her first litter) and father Sam (his third). Fota announce three Northern cheetah cubs born just before lockdown
Visited today and the Chilean flamingos have moved to an area between the seal/eagle aviary and the drill house. 5 individuals present. Had only seen 3 in the previous exhibit for some time so I’m assuming Fota has either gotten 2 new ones or replaced the entire flock which I think is more likely.
Male Asiatic lion Loki (b. 2017) has moved to Lodz zoo. Only Male Asiatic Lion born at Fota Wildlife Park moves to Poland
2 black-and-white ruffed lemurs born on June 6: Announcing two new critically endangered Black and White Ruffed lemur babies
