Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabarceno Parque de la naturaleza de Cabarceno

@Sivatherium, are these not just simply Spanish red deer?

 

I hope they are not... I really do hope they are not. I'd really like to see a new species in the park, and that exhibit has never been home to red deer, so I have hope.

 

Look's like Pere David's deers but impossible to confirm !

 

I think more likely Red or Fallow but again, can't confirm.

 

Thnx for your contribution! Sadly, they really look like fallow and red deer. Pere David's would make plenty of sense, since they used to keep them some years ago, then later to be phased out of the park.

 

With the arrival of a new male, the first Addax calf has been born in Cabarceno after five long years of only having three individuals.

 

News:

• The park has received a new Grevy's zebra stallion.
• The park got a new male lion, Max. The old male, Frodo, was sent to Sendaviva this summer.
• In a couple of months, the common zebras, waterbucks, gemsboks, watusis, European bison, Somali wild asses, and the old yak exhibit's stables and yards are going to be renovated. With this, I hope that the yak paddock will be given new life.

 

News:

• A pair of European bison has arrived from the Poznan zoo. The park currently has seven animals (A male and six females). Zootierliste lists that Poznan zoo keeps the lowland subspecies.

 

I believe what you are meaning to say is that it is a bloodline with no infusion of the Caucasian subspecies. As far as I know, only one Caucasian European wisent descendant contributed genetically to the current European wisent population. There is an A and B bloodline (one with and one without Caucasian infusion of genetics).

 

To be fair, I don't know much about bison subspecies. I only checked zootierliste to look for more info and the ones listed in Cabarceno were non-subspecific.

 

Big news!

• The park will expand it's grounds to the Peña Cavarga (Near the lynx and yak exhibit). This expansion will be done in the next three years, but won't include any new exhibits. This area will be mostly done for walking trails, leisure areas, restoring archeological remains, and an expansion of the cable car. The article mentions the following: "The experts will have to decide which kind of fauna will there be, but there can be important indigenous fauna, such as the chamois". I think this mostly refers to the wild Cantabrian chamois that inhabit Peña Cabarga, but it could also confirm a new animal for the park? The park currently has 750 acres, and with the expansion, it will end up being 1.600 acres in size! The article can be found here.
• Despite the new expansion not containing any new exhibits, they have confirmed that they will try and fill up the exhibits/areas that are now empty and abandoned (Such as the yak exhibit, wild boar paddock, the fields right in front of the Cantabrian livestock, the empty primate/cat exhibit in front of the baboons...). The article saying so can be found here.

 

@SivatheriumGuy I think you wanted to write 750 hectares and not 750 acres
And many thnaks for the interesting info !

 

I guess so! The Google Translator said it was acres.

 

Ah, silly Google Translator (the same for me sometimes ) !

 

^^
It's huge, but not really an impressive zoo.

 

I agree with you, the park's surroundings are amazing but the species they currently have are pretty meh.

 

They could do a lot more with the space, both for African animals and local Iberian fauna!

 

I fully agree with you. When it comes to Iberian fauna I feel like the Spanish ibex, Pyrenean chamois and the comeback of the wild boar would be very logical moves for the park to make. It would be really nice if the park dedicated an area to smaller carnivores within the peninsula (such as wildcats, minks, otters...) or even aviaries for the breeding of endangered Iberian birds such as the capercaillie or lammergeier.
When it comes to more exotic species, the park has yet a lot of potentials to exploit. It could house so many different antelope species, black rhinos would be a great fit in too, cape buffalos, Asian goats, takins, literally any deer... the list goes on and on. I really hope for some kind of ungulate to arrive to the park in the close future, but sadly we can't confirm anything.

 

They need an ambitious new curator or zoological director.

 

I agree... I don't remember if I ever said this here in ZooChat, but Cabarceno is currently directed as a touristic attraction and not as a proper zoo, which is really really sad.