I would like to see more species here & that Knowsley could have a bigger variety of African species. I personally would like to see Hyenas here although I doubt it will ever come to fruition. I`d like to see Aardvark,Anteater although a new herd of African elephants would be the best addition in my eyes (this will be a while off yet though) what do rest of zoochatters want to see here ?
I’m member if Knowsley because it is very local. I think they need more carnivores as do most people. I’d love hyena in the enclosure we’re the Vicuna are however it is so unlikely we can almost count it off. There is so much space on the drive for just hoove stock and it does get slightly boring I think the best option would to get some new ‘ big name’ animals so to speak for example bears. Any other ideas would be welcome. Also how much space is there at knowsley because i was thinking they could get something like a gorillas or orangs but I don’t know how much space there is
Me too (the UK needs more hyenas) and it'd be great enrichment for them while the Vicuna lasted. Way too expensive (to build a suitable exhibit) I'd imagine.
I do like the thought of Knowsley keeping more with the African species. It would be great to see some of the following species arrive ; Aardvark Anteater Aardwolf possibly African Penguin Bonobos Cape buffalo Mongoose Warthog Highly unlikely we'll see many of any of these species arrive but any of the above species could bring in more visitors. What do people think ?
I don't think they have, but a number of the animals had no access to the paddocks the other day, and they were one of them along with the Zebra, Wildebeast, and Rhino.
They are confined to a paddock at the back of the pere David’s deer and camel paddock. The herd became to aggressive towards the cars and deer
They don't have Cape Buffalo only Congo species according to email. It would be nice to see Cape Buffalo arrive at some point as it's one of Africa's big 5 but only Congo for now.
THEy have recently kept Cape buffalo however they must if left since my last visit as I do remeber them
As we're talking fantasy here, it might be fun to replicate some of the collection that a much earlier Earl of Derby had some two hundred years ago. The most difficult species to source would be Quagga (I think he only had one) and Passenger Pigeon (he bred dozens of those).
But an educational museum-type building on these species, culminating in a viewing platform overlooking a paddock of Pere David's deer, might be an idea.
Same on the ones I've seen. If anyone had made a real effort to import more than one Quagga at a time, we might still have the things!
Fear not, it appears South Africa have a sort of John Hammond in their ranks ...... Experts reintroduce the zebra-like quagga to South Africa 100 years after it went extinct | Daily Mail Online
The Quagga project continues to argue that black is blue... that these Zebras resemble Quaggas. If you look at genuine Quaggas you can see their markings and colouration were totally different to these recreations.
Thought I would bring back an old post. Now that I am a membet of knowsley I visit more regularly and this is what I would like to see. Safari Zone1 would be the same. Zone 2 would also be the same but I think the emu should be added into here with a few other emus for companion just to make the zone a bit better Zone 3 and 6 would have all the same species and I would like to se the ankole return. I would also like to see kudu in here. The zebra also could be put in here or in the next zone. Zone 4 again keeping all current animals except forest buffalo with the potential addition of the zebra. Also the somali wild ass in here Zone 5 would still have bongo along with blesbok and the forest buffalo. Zone 7 still the baboons Zone 9 would be the same also. Might be nice to see red deer added but not a necessity. Zone 10 would by my biggest change on the safari. Lions in the same area. When the wolves go back on safari I would like to see hyena or painted dog in this area. When the tiger enclosure is empty I would disconnect this from the lion House and have cheetah in here. Then I would take down the somali wild ass enclosure and build a new one for lynx. Foot safari More big changes on here starting with the sea lions. I would keep the sea lion building and expand the outdoor enclosure in the surrounding areas and remove the play area nearby so that the area isn't as noisy. Wolves, tigers, Bush dogs, birds of prey, red river hogs and meerkat to stay the same. Giraffes would be moved into the old elephant enclosure with plains zebra (instead of the grevys on safari drive) (or the other way round). The old giraffe enclosure would become the new south America habitat with a few adjustments to the paddock for example adding a pool, more foliage, better fencing and this would house the tapir, capys, vicuna and potentially the addition of rhea. I would take up the train track from the equatorial trail, build a bigger house and have hippos in there with a path all the way along the far side. The unused area to the right of the elephant enclosure would be where I would have a a number of walk through enclosures. I'd have one for lemurs, one for wallabies and one for goats. It is a rathe large list which I suspect will never happen but after all it is a fantasy post.
