As far as I know, Jabari, Meru and Winnie are in the old elephant enclosure on the foot safari, the others are still on the drive.
New wolf spotted in the old wolf enclosure today! At first I thought it was Morena, but apparently it's a new male. Exciting times.
Perhaps one of the females will move onto another park, exciting to think a potential new breeding programme is possibly starting at Knowsley
Knowsley are teasing a new arrival on their Facebook page which is a large crate on the foot safari so I'm guessing this is Keyah the new female rhino?
During the summer I did the Knowsley academy course and the head rhino keeper suggested they were looking to bring another bull in eventually
KSP have successfully held two bulls historically, with the additional space of the old elephant quarters now in rhino use, it gives even more space to move them around as required. The three older females Meru, Winnie and Piglet have all had calves with Sharka (resident bull) and calves before him with previous bull (Bud or Budweiser depending what you prefer). So these three ladies have probably done their bit for rhino breeding and diversity, or they are coming to the end of their breeding days possibly?. Therefore the current introductions of a younger, yet mature female from Augsberg (I think I read), can hopefully breed with Sharka before he moves to pasture new. Having not visited myself for a while now, is Binta (female), a) still at the park? & b) any attempts or success with breeding? She was born at Knowsley 2006 (mother Piglet). Having been born at the park and her mother still breeding, Binta as far as I know never became pregnant although I believe that ‘interest’ had been shown when with Sharka. It seems that the mother still being present almost suppressed her in someway from breeding (although this maybe hypothesis only!!)
There were plans to build a new elephant house but I don't know if they've put this into motion yet. Planning maybe an issue although I believe they are still planning to go ahead with it if successful
Binta is still there. The plan was to keep sharka and a new bull in seperate enclosures and rotate the females between them
A new female white rhino has arrived. 2yr called Bayami I don't where she's from. Posted on their Facebook page today.
1:0 white rhino has arrived (think he was the first to arrive) called Pembe. Don't know where from but there used to be one with the same name at Colchester zoo
Pembe at Colchester was a female. She has since moved to Marwell. Knowsley's Pembe was born at Madrid Zoo in 2009. He came over from Selwo Aventura in Spain
