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Howletts Wild Animal Park Howletts Wild Animal Park News 2017

Discussion in 'United Kingdom' started by ShonenJake13, 4 Feb 2017.

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  1. Lemurs

    Lemurs Well-Known Member

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    Baby bongos born recently, plus (another) Francois Langur, B&W ruffed, and a crowned lemur.

    Also, although hard to see, there are pygmy marmosets are in with the red-bellied tamarins.
     
    Lemurs, 30 Jul 2017
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  2. Nisha

    Nisha Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Female Sumatran Tiger, Indah has been euthanaized aged 12 following ongoing medical problems. Leaving Howletts with just male, Amir currently
     
    Nisha, 7 Aug 2017
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    14556 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Is anyone going to the members event on the weekend? If so can you take some pictures of the inside of the elephant building. Thanks!
     
    14556, 9 Nov 2017
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  4. pipaluk

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    This is a very old thread, nothing had been posted on it for 6 years!

    Think it needs closing, so as not to get confused with the current one!!
     
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  5. Zia

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    @14556 has just posted on an old one by mistake. Best thing to do is report it so the admins can sort it out. (which I have done)
     
    Zia, 9 Nov 2017
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  6. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    I've tidied up the Howletts news threads so they are divided by year.
     
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  7. Zia

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    Nice one :cool:
     
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  8. sidcup

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    does anyone know exactly how many tigers are left at howletts . I admit I haven't been since july 16 as ive been concentrating on other places .but last I counted they had 1 Bengal 1amur 1sumatran and amir the diabled 1. if all the others have gone could some one please let us know when. thanks
     
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  9. Zia

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    This is the 2017 thread... he's moved the other recent posts into it.
     
    Zia, 9 Nov 2017
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  10. pipaluk

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    Sorry, I still got a link from the old one I thought!
     
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  11. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Yeah, I moved the posts from that old thread to the 2017 thread. Then I went back and cut up all the long multi-year news threads into separate years so that it is easier to find stuff. The UK forums are a mess with all the overlapping year-threads for different zoos, and it takes a while to sort them out.

    As @Zia says, with out-of-place posts (or anything else where there's a problem), it is easiest if the post is just reported (blue link saying "Report" under the post) because then whichever moderators are online see it more or less straight away and can see what can be done to sort it out. If a problem is simply mentioned within a thread it might not be seen for a while.
     
    Chlidonias, 9 Nov 2017
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  12. Pertinax

    Pertinax Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Is that really all the Tigers left at Howletts now- just 4 singles?
     
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  13. JoeDK14

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    I thought there were not any Bengal tigers left in Europe
     
    JoeDK14, 10 Nov 2017
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  14. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    The fact that it is labeled as one, doesn't mean it is one ;)
     
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    Maybe a survivor of their old zoomix stock?
     
    FBBird, 10 Nov 2017
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  16. Pertinax

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    Almost certainly I think. There was a time when they had enclosures full of generic Tigers as well as Siberians. I find it surprising they are now down to just 4. I presume they intend to continue with them but keep just pairs of the Siberian and Sumatrans in the future and will add new partners to the existing ones.
     
    Pertinax, 10 Nov 2017
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  17. Pertinax

    Pertinax Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Its the classic zoo label still used in many places for generic/impure Tigers. The true Indian tiger doesn't exist in any European zoos now.
     
    Pertinax, 10 Nov 2017
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  18. Rob80

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    Hi all, I am new to Zoochat and I am after some assistance.... I am after a history of African elephants at Howletts including names/births/deaths and whereabouts now of individual animals. Does anyone have this info or is their a website which holds this info?
     
    Rob80, 13 Dec 2017
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  19. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    This might help: Petra Prager – Elefanten-Fotolexikon
     
    Chlidonias, 13 Dec 2017
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  20. Rob80

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    This is very good thank you.... I have just had a quick look and had no idea they had lost (deaths) as many elephants as they seem to have. :(
     
    Rob80, 13 Dec 2017
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