The Ravens were just inside the park I firstly thought they were more Carrion crows but realised they were wearing trousers and the heavy looking head as I got a little closer they were much bigger than a crow when they took to the sky they had a larger wing span than a crow and the tail was wedge shaped there fore come to the conclusion they were Ravens.
The black and white ruffed lemur, named Storm, left London Zoo in Dec 2015. He now lives with 6 or 7 other B&W ruffed lemurs at Combe Martin Wildlife Park
I too, as a London resident, am finding this hard to believe. The only place I've ever seen ravens in London is the Tower, where they're more or less captive.
Ravens have expanded their range greatly in the past few decades, I think they may be present in some of the Home Counties now e.g Bedfordshire and may even nest at Whipsnade, or is that just Red Kite? But I have not heard of them moving back into cities yet( since Medieval times that is).
There are ravens in Northamptonshire, possibly north Beds, but not heard of them as far south as Whipsnade (yet!) But central London just does not sound right, it's a good distance from anywhere else they've been found recently
They are certainly found in cities again up here in the wildernesses of the northeast seen raven in both Newcastle and York.
I have seen a couple of records of raven in London (I recall reading that one was seen over Regent's Park in 2013) - comment 30 on this post mentions ravens as being 'regularly seen even closer in towards the centre of London' and does also mention them visiting picnic tables at Whipsnade Zoo. BBC - Nature UK: Have you been seeing ravens where you live?
There are most definitely ravens at Whipsnade! The most common place to see them and hear them is in the reed bed filtration area for he hippos next to where the black fallow are. They nest (and I think rear young) in the trees around there. I have seen them flying over the now hunting dog enclosure too!
I thought I was right in thinking Ravens nested nowadays at Whipsnade. I do wonder if they are being found in central London yet though.
I'm very doubtful about ravens in Regent's Park – their croaky bark is so distinctive and I've never heard it in London. Rooks (with trousers) more likely.
I saw (and heard) a raven at Whipsnade today; I have seen them there previously but this was the first time I'd noticed them at Whipsnade this year.
Seven female Rodrigues fruit bats have been installed in the Rainforest. Yesterday they were hanging in a bunch in a top corner, but they may well fly about in the daytime as they are crepuscular, not nocturnal. And they don't have echolocation! – they navigate by eyesight (this is a new one for me, I thought all bats had echolocation). It will be interesting to see how they get on.
the only Megachiropterans - out of almost 200 species - to use vocal echolocation are those of the genus Rousettus (it is usually stated that the cave-dwelling Egyptian Fruit Bat R. aegyptiacus is the only example, but probably others in the genus also do so). Basically, if it's any kind of fruit bat other than from that one genus then it doesn't have vocal echolocation capabilities.
