I'm hoping to make my first visit to Colchester soon - are there any recommendations about a battle plan - I do particularly like the great apes but would welcome any advice about any places to target early to get the best out of it. I've never seen aardvarks and would love to do so. Thanks.
The only plan I can suggest to help you find your way around Colchester easily is to take a large quantity of mind-altering drugs. The place in full of shortcuts, dead-ends and tucked away exhibits and I always count myself lucky to end up where I intended to! I suppose the more serious advice would be to try not to miss out any pathways at all - most of them have some zoological gem hidden down there!
I find you get the best view of the orangs (i.e. not too many other people around) if you go straight there when it opens, and perhaps return just before it shuts. There is this yellow line to follow, but it can also work well to follow it backwards - and therefore against most of the crowds - if you see what I mean (notwithstanding visiting the orangs 1st). It took me several visits to Colchester to see practically everything due to the aforementioned dead-ends and 'hidden' areas. It does take a while to get used to.
Yippee Meerkats,sorry I would give them a miss as I can remember when Colchester had interesting species of Mongoose like Banded,Yellow and Marsh and not a Meerkat to be seen in the whole zoo how times change.
This is one of Colchester's banded mongeese (am not sure if that's the correct collective term ?!) which is opposite the old meerkat enclosure but I don't remember seeing the yellow ones either.
I'm pretty sure the yellow ones aren't there, I only thought they had Banded mongoose nowadays when they used to have Dwarfs (in the Kidz zone with a tunnel underneath) and the yellows were in the mongoose canyon enclosure near the Geladas?
Nope. Looking at his post history it's all posts back to the edit limit. Seems to have edited away all his comments for reasons of his own.
