After 15 years as Chief Executive, Colin Brown will retire in April next year. Man behind one of region?s most popular attractions to step down - Yorkshire Post
The December 2016 issue of 'Practical Reptile Keeping' magazine has an article about the design and building of the enclosure for Lake Zacapu garter snakes. One thing to note is that the snakes came from Steven Bol, an expert and private keeper of various garter and water snakes.
A change to one of the exhibits at The Deep is on their website. The former 'Bug Olympics' section has been changed and retitled 'Hull Bugs' in preparation for Hull being City of Culture in 2017. It houses nine species of invertebrate and focuses on three areas (industry, sport and heritage), each animal representing a person, organisation or area within the city. The full list of the nine species, and what they represent are as follows: - Indian giant tiger centipede - Hull City FC (often referred to as the Tigers) - Wellington tree weta - Hull KR Rugby Club - Cameroon armoured cricket - Arco and the safety wear industry - Malaysian leaf katydid - KCOM (Hull's communications provider) - Madagascar fishing spider - Hull's maritime history - Jewel wasp - William Wilberforce and the abolition of the slave trade - Giant flower beetle - Art and diversity within Hull - Question-mark cockroach - Hull FC Rugby League football club - David Bowie spider - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars I personally quite like the idea for this exhibit - the very interesting list of species certainly helps as well.
Another arrival from Aquatopia in Belgium along with the loggerhead turtles mentioned on Facebook is a male zebra shark called Smos. The intention is for him to form a breeding pair with the resident female shark.
that is a good line-up. Does anywhere else in the UK display tree weta and David Bowie spiders, anyone know?
I don't remember hearing of either of those species being on display elsewhere - the description of this exhibit on the Deep's website does state that some of the invertebrates are the only ones of their kind on display.
Red devil crabs have arrived and gone on-display in Deep Blue One, the Deep's rivers display. Also, the new Mangrove Lagoon has opened and fish have been added - some of the animals include young zebra sharks, a species of stingray, Moorish idol, regal tang, pyramid butterflyfish, harlequin tuskfish and stars-and-stripes pufferfish. Videos are included on the Facebook page of The Deep and a longer one is available on the Facebook page of upcoming attraction Jurassica, courtesy of the exhibit designer.
A 20 strong population of Sunburst Diving beetles has been supplied to Wilhelma Zoo . The Deep has welcomed Spotted lagoon jellyfish from Oceanario de Lisboa
Fifty Critically Endangered Desertas wolf spiderlings have arrived at The Deep, as part of a rearing programme with the intention to reintroduce them back into the wild. Additional juvenile spiders will be collected in the future which would return to The Deep and other European institutions for breeding. News comes from both Facebook and the website: Latest News | The Deep
Been checking back through the Facebook page for The Deep to check if there are any new arrivals that haven't been reported on here. Since late July, there have been announcements or videos concerning the arrival of Peter's elephantnose trunkfish, Madagascar red killifish (both fish in the Deep Blue One rivers section), common cuttlefish and comb-jellies (both invertebrates in the Cool Seas section).
The Deep, together with ZSL, Sea Life and Bangor University's School of Ocean Sciences are to cooperate in a programme to develop ways of breeding and farming coral reef fish. To start with, the Sustainable Aquariums Project (SNAP) will work with 20 popular reef species that have not been bred in captivity before including species of butterflyfish, rabbitfish, wrasse and tang. If successful, this project could lead to the first commercial hatchery for these species, based in Wales, supplying aquariums and hobbyists across the continent. More information is included in the link below: Latest news from The Deep | The Deep
On the weekend of the 15th-16th June, the first gentoo penguin chick of 2019 was hatched. Because of the number of eggs the mother laid, the egg was given to another pair to be fostered. More information is included in the link below: Latest news from The Deep | The Deep
Green mantellas have recently arrived at The Deep, and have now gone on-show in the Deep Blue One area. More information is included in the link below: Latest news from The Deep | The Deep
Two young zebra sharks have recently hatched at The Deep, from eggs laid by the female shark living in the Endless Oceans display. They are currently living in the off-show breeding area. More information is included in the link below: Latest news from The Deep | The Deep
The Deep has recently announced that this summer, two gentoo penguin chicks hatched. Once hatched in June (mentioned in post #57) and the second in July. DNA analysis has confirmed that both chicks are male. More information can be found in the link below: Latest news from The Deep | The Deep
