I see from a press release that one of the black rhinos recently sent to Africa , female Zawadi , was born in Berlin . I would assume she was sent to Port Lympne with the agreement that she was to be exported to Africa .
Probably the agreement. PL have done well releasing Black Rhinos back to Africa, the last ones sent were 0.2 (?) and one was seen mating with a wild male.
0.1 Red Panda has arrived from Copenhagen to partner with the male who arrived from Dortmund in 2011. She's called Wanmei
A Carpathian lynx has been born to the park's pair. Port Lympne Wild Animal Park welcomes new Carpathian lynx kitten | This is Kent
Rosie the Black Rhino. Does anybody have any updates on Rosie (Ex Chester) has she been mixed with any females or even possibly a male? I know that she has behavioral problems mixing with other Rhinos.
Port Lympne's facebook page have announced that they've added fossa to the collection - nice to see one of my favourite little species on the up Edit: They came from a private collection and are housed in the former red panda enclosure in Carnivore Territory.
I went to port lympne August 11th and on the african experience just as it goes up the main drive at the start it goes past two rhino paddocks and the driver said Rosie was in the paddock on the left. She was on her own, im not sure if they have tried to mix her with any of the others or if they will in the future though. GB
The new male Drill has also arrived (I assume from Valencia, as previously mentioned) His name is "Nbosja"
Bit of further information released by the park today... The Fossa are a pair, Both born at San Diego in 2006 and transfered to Port Lympne from Endangered Madagascar in Bath recently.
Came across this festival, called The Zoo Project, which is to be held within the grounds of Port Lympne this month. I'm not sure of the exact location within the grounds but the prospect of a music festival in a zoo sounds a bit dodgy to me. Anyone else got any thoughts? The Zoo Project Festival UK 2012
I think music festivals are annual events now. There is plenty of space beside the main drive before you reach the car park area. As PL visitors will know, there is a footbridge across a minor road between the car park and the actual entrance to the zoo. The spare male baboons, in the old enclosure at the end of the bridge, will probably be the only animals that can hear much. Alan
Drills. Now PL have moved 0.2 Drills out (Afi and Kaduna) how many do they now have? I think it's 2.1, they have the castrated male and his mother (?) as well as the newly arrived male. I hope PL can get some breeding out of them before the adult female is too old.
I believe they still have 3 females, as in May there were five (Bibundi and four daughters). If two have now left to go to Munich(?) as I was told, that leaves Bibundi and two daughters at PL. I suspect Bibundi isn't too old to breed again, but the two remaining daughters will only just be mature anyway. Total; 2.3.
On a completely unrelated note, i'm curious as to how many gorillas there are at port lympne and how they are grouped. Would anyone be able to provide a list of the names/ages/sexes of the gorillas in each PL group please? Additionally how many batchelor groups are there at the park? 2? are any males keep on their own? Thanks in advance......
Djalas group: Djala Male born 1982 Foufou Female born 1992 Kishi Female born 1988 Kibi Female born 1992 Mumba Female born 1987 Tamki Female born 1989 Emmie Female born 1991 Mwambe female born 2006 Djongo Male born 2006 Louna Male born 2008 Akou female born 2011 Djemba female born 2012 Bachelor Group 1: Mataki(Bonz) Male Born 1988 - Living Solitary Ambam Male born 1990 Djimu Male born 1992 Kush Male born 1992 Timbou Male born 1990 - Living Solitary Bachelor Group 2: Ujiji Male born 1994 - Living solitary Kangu Male born 1999 Kebu Male born 2000 Kouyou Male born 2002 Fubu Male born 2003 Hope this helps GB
Thank you so much gorillaboy. Do you know of any particular reason why those males are kept in batchelor groups asides from there being too many captive males? i.e, do any have genetic problems or too closely inbred, or behavioural probs etc? Are many of those males related too each other?
1. These males represent many of the surplus ones bred in the breeding groups at Howletts/PL. A number of their other surplus males have gone in small groups to zoos in France, Hungary(?) and South east Asia as well as Boulas, now at Longleat and Oumbie at Twycross.. 2. None of them are inbred so no genetic problems. 3. A lot of them, both the past and present ones, are related to each other, either full or halfbrothers from the same breeding groups. 4. The ones Gorillaboy lists as 'living alone' have mostly had to be split due to fighting, not really a behavioural problem as such as its not very natural for adult males to live closely together like this.
