Since the end of november works begun on an old 1920' aviary to modify it into a walkthrough aviary for rainbow loriquets. Une volière immersive en construction au parc animalier de Clères, près de Rouen
In a newspaper article we learn that the park wants to welcome new species in the near future. Some are listed : asian otters, markhors, marmots. Moreover they want to replace the axis deers by a more endangered deer species. Père David's deers are mentionned.
When I visited eighteen months ago, there were no deer in evidence. Is it possible they were across the road in the other area? Delacour’s autobiography refers to the park holding both Axis and Pseudaxis (‘Formosan’ Sika) Deer. Surely Markhor would not do well on grass?
Well, they are not mentionned in the last guide book so maybe they left for a while. At the moment, there are just reeve's muntjacs and chinese water deers. For info, Pseudaxis are vietnamese sikas and Formosan are taïwanese sikas
Some recent news : - a male bearded emperor tamarin left the park for Gdansk, - a female red panda, born in the park, will leave for Mulhouse during the next week, - a female and a male gibbon (no more details) will leave the park soon, - the rainbow loriquets aviary is not finished yet but they hope to open it during spring.
