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Discussion in 'France' started by kiang, 5 Jul 2009.

  1. Michel L'HUILLIER

    Michel L'HUILLIER Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Thank you Senapus.
    A friend of mine found the news yesterday evening too.
     
  2. Arizona Docent

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    This is pretty big news.

    The website, Facebook, Instagram have been changed from Le Parc Des Felins to Parcs Zoologiques Lumigny. Apparently they now have two parks and if I am reading the French correctly they are next to each other. (Can @Michel L'HUILLIER confirm this?).

    In addition to the original Le Parc Des Felins (which has cats) they now have Terre De Singes (which has monkeys and lories/parrots). This website is a landing page for both parks, from which you can use a tab to get information on either one: Accueil - Parcs Zoologiques Lumigny
     
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    Terre de Singes opened in September 2016...
     
  4. Arizona Docent

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    Okay then I guess it's not big news. :eek:
    Surprising I did not learn about it earlier.
     
  5. Michel L'HUILLIER

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    @Arizona Docent :
    Yes, Terre de Singes is just in front of Parc des Félins, and owned by the same boss.
    And you're right, you just have to cross the road to visit one or the other.
    They make a discount if you want to visit both parks, the same day, or even 2 different days.
    At the beginning of this year, they merged their two digital platforms.
     
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  6. Marco Penello

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    I visited it last Friday for work. An amazing collection of cats, really the best in the world and the speciemens are all wonderful. Some enclosures are nice/very nice (the landscape is fantastic, so it helps a lot), e.g the system of indoors for the sand cats (4 kittens, wow!) is one of the best that I ever seen and the enclosure for all the tiger species (but also lions and cheetahs have large natural areas...) are very large and naturalistic, the best choice possible.
    I found too big and wasted the impressive area for white tigers, as they are not interesting animals from a conservation point of view and the occupy such an immense space; I understand that they are animals loved by common visitors (business is business..), but I hope that in the future that area will be reserved for other really endangered animals.
     
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    Since the redo of their website it is much harder to keep up on births. They don't list them in a news feed like on the old site - basically you have to scour through Facebook posts. From what I can gather (both posts and photos) these are some of the births for 2019:
    two Malayan tiger (see post above)
    two Eurasian lynx (Siberian I think, but they also hold European)
    one (or two?) bobcat
    three puma
    one or two serval
    one? caracal
    four? sand cat
     
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  9. Michel L'HUILLIER

    Michel L'HUILLIER Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Corrections / confirmations :
    4 Sand cats :
    no sex, no name notified on their panel, b. 18/02/2019 sire : SEBOU, dam : ROACH
    1 Caracal :
    ANAYA (f), b. 27/11/2018 sire : BENJAMIN, dam : IDA
    3 Northern lynx :
    MIKKELI (m), HOGGUN (m), SIGGY (f), b. 18/05/2019 sire : LIKKA, dam : LIMEYA
    2 servals :
    KITWE (m), ESEKA (f), b. 01/05/2019 sire : SAHEL, dam : SINGHALA
     
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    @Michel L'HUILLIER What about three pumas? They definitely show them on their Facebook page.
     
  11. Michel L'HUILLIER

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    3 Pumas :
    JAVARI (m), NAMUNDHA (f), ONEIDA (f), b. 24/05/2019 sire : LUBOMIR, dam : DALINE
    Yes, they are still in the enclosure with their parents.
     
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  12. Michel L'HUILLIER

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    Plus :
    - one baby Oncilla
    - one baby Jaguarundi
    No more info atm.
     
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    This is fantastic! I wish I lived over there. (Actually I would love to live anywhere in Europe).
     
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    1.0 Sri Lankan Leopard (a young male, named Porthos) has recently moved to Cordoba Zoo in Spain.
     
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  15. Michel L'HUILLIER

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    Replacing 1.0 Sri Lankan Leopard PORTHOS moved to Cordoba Zoo, a "new" male has arrived NEGOMBO, born 16/05/2011 at Parc des Félins (sire : TOM, dam : YALLA (YALA)).
    He comes back home from CERZA (Lisieux Zoo).
     
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    For a limited time (how limited I am not sure) this park and their sister park (Terre Singes) are offering souvenir tickets that resemble a Euro bill. It has a large zero on it for the monetary value, so people know they can't spend it. It features two adult tigers (one white) and a mother and baby monkey (sorry I don't know my monkey species).
     
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    On January 31 the Facebook page of Parcs Lumigny announced a new species arrival. The short clip shows two medium size crates but the species of animal is not revealed (and has not been revealed in any subsequent posts). Since the Facebook page is for both Le Parc Des Felins and their sister zoo Terre de Singes, I don't even know if it is a cat or primate (though I suspect the latter since they have just about every cat species they can feasibly get).
     
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    Parc des Félins webpage shows both Southern Oncilla and Northern Oncilla
    Oncille du Nord - Parcs Zoologiques Lumigny

    ZTL still lists only Southern, do they got the Northern species too ?
    If so, they will only miss Iberian Lynx and Sunda Leopard Cat from what is present in Europe.
     
  20. Marco Penello

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    I confirm that they have both tigrinus and guttulus.