A young male red bellied lemur has escaped the walk through exhibit, during his introduction to his new home. BBC News - Red-bellied lemur in East Sussex zoo escape
Just interested but how long could a creature like that survive in the wild? Id imagine it could live quite happily in a forest, considering its full of bugs and leaves, was just on my mind!
A red panda escaped from Birmingham Nature Centre lived for a few weeks in peoples back gardens and was totally fine, I'd assume a lemur would do just as well if not better.
New additions for 2011 will include... 1:3 Colobus Monkeys will be coming from Port Lympne in February A walk through Rainbow Lorikeet aviary on the site of the Parrot Falls aviary. The new exibit will be named Lory Landing and is due to open in May Alfriston zoo expecting new arrivals (From The Argus)
I've no idea where they would house the colobus. I wonder if the open-topped red-ruffed lemur enclosure is being used for them.
On the map on their website, it already shows the colobus in what was the black and white ruffed lemur enclosure, and they have in turn been moved into what was the red ruffed lemur enclosure. I don't know where the red ruffeds have gone!
Great news about the Colobus's are they young animals that Port Lympe have bred or are Port Lympe bringing in new animals?
Thanks - I'm surprised, the enclosure marked for colobus is a former aviary for white storks, later ibis and egrets, and it wasn't so big for them, the lemurs looked okay in this but again it wasn't the biggest of cages for 5-7 adult lemurs. Unless they plan to expand it, but there's not really anywhere they could expand it into....
Port Lympe have a lot of colobus monkeys so they are probably ones theyve bred, I would be surprised if they were bringing in new animals.
The press release states that these are from Port Lympne. Not sure whether they will be Kikuyu colobus or the less widely-kept occidentalis subspecies which, according to ISIS are only held in three institutions. It is possible that, if they are Kikuyu's, they may be Howlett's-bred animals coming from PL ie an established group, however if they are occidentalis I am sure they would have been bred at PL.
A black rhino horn, used by the education dept has been stolen from the zoo during opening hours. BBC News - Drusillas zoo clack rhino horn stolen
Qui, a female Red Panda has arrived from Les Sables, France. She's currently off show due to quarentine but will hopefully make her debut in Spring 2012
1:0 Sulawesi Crested Macaque born. His parents came from Chester and a collection in Israel Baby monkey born in UK boosts endangered breed - mirror.co.uk
Two new capybara babies too: Capybara babies wow visitors to Drusillas - Trevor's Week and Animal Stories - Eastbourne Herald
A colobus monkey has been born to the newly formed group. BBC News - Baby colobus monkey born at Drusillas Park in Alfriston
Qui recently died In other news a Sulawesi crested macaque named Tambo was born on the 25th October 2011. Drusillas Park - Travel/Leisure - Alfriston | Facebook
Plans for a £3million sister park in Crawley are scrapped after council reject bid to buy the exsisting Tilgate Nature Centre... don't go wild: 3m declined | This is Sussex
