Also, To add to my list Dublin have a pair of Great Indians according to their website. On the subject of Dublin zoo, did they breed asian elephants or was it Belfast?
It was Belfast who bred an Asian elephant (one birth only). The father was Luka who later, went to Port Lympne He was replaced by Jubilee from Chester but he never bred and is now dead. The 'calf' was female and is still at Belfast. with two or three adult females including its mother. There is no male. Dublin have three females from Rotterdam Zoo and I believe will get a male soon. Maybe Dublin can take the young female from Belfast for breeding as well.
Yes, but females stay with the group for life so maybe it is better for her to stay at belfast. Back to the topic of the realm of the red ape. I read in an old annual report that the mossy frogs are destined for the new house. as are tree nymphs and indian giant praying mantis.
still on the original thread ..... would there be any issue with having primates and venomous snakes together ?
i woudlnt- 2 risky monkes will have a go, end up being bitten, then drop dead, or vice versa, monkies will eat snakes
The Snakes are in Separate enclosure within the main house. If you have a look on Zoolex, There is a page about Chester's elephant house. They keep lots of other species in this way within one house. The Elephant house is Very good.
More news on the red ape TV presenter Nick Knowles will face a completed DIY project of a different sort when he opens Europe's largest orang-utan enclosure. Nick, who hosts DIYSOS, will take time out on Saturday June 30 to officially open Chester Zoo's Realm of the Red Ape - a new home for critically endangered Sumatran and Bornean orang-utans. The exhibit opens to the public for the first time this Saturday (May 26) and marks the end of two years' work developing the orang-utans old enclosures into a state-of-the-art tropical home for the orang-utans and a number of other Indonesian forest animals including reptiles, birds, mammals. The enclosure includes some 2,000 plants. Nick recently returned from a trip to Borneo where he came face-to-face with orang-utans to discover more about their plight in the wild. The film is for the BBC's Saving Planet Earth series in which a number of different celebrities lend their support to threatened species. Nick said: "Having been to Borneo and seen the orang-utan's natural habitat and the rate at which it's disappearing, breeding programmes and the work being done at Chester Zoo become more important everyday." Nick will be joined at the official June opening by Dr Birute Galdikas, president of the Los Angeles-based Orangutan Foundation International. Dr Galdikas will be presented with a Gold Medal from the North of England Zoological Association, the charitable trust that runs Chester Zoo. The presentation will mark Dr Galdikas' tireless work on primate conservation and field research - both Bornean and Sumatran orang-utans are critically endangered in the wild. Mark Pilgrim, Chester Zoo's Director of Conservation and Education, said: "At the current rate of decline, wild orang-utans will be extinct in 10 to 20 years time. It is a frightening fact. "Conservation breeding programmes in zoos are important but we also have a responsibility to orang-utans in the wild and later this year, we will be launching a programme to assist wild orang-utans in Borneo by protecting their habitat. "Realm of the Red Ape will enable us to continue with our successful breeding programme and raise support and awareness of the threats facing these charismatic species. "Dr Galdikas has a long and distinguished record of working with orang-utans. Nick's experiences and work in Borneo will also bring home the message about the plight of the orang-utans. We are delighted that they will both be joining us to mark the official opening of Realm of the Red Ape." Both Nick and Dr Galdikas will be given a tour of Realm of the Red Ape which offers more space for the zoo's orang-utans. Chester Zoo has kept orang-utans since the late 1950s and more than 25 individuals have been born at the zoo in that time. The new enclosure, which cost £3.5 million to develop, includes a two-storey building which has been built to link on to the existing orang-utan house and includes three large indoor enclosures. Linked to these are two further large outdoor enclosures covered with a mesh roof and housing tree-like structures to act as climbing frames for the six Sumatran and four Bornean orang-utans and a family of four noisy Gibbons. Visitors will be taken on a canopy walk where they will meet a wide variety of treetop wildlife including birds, small mammals, amphibians, reptiles and insects. These will include a pair of Crocodile Monitor Lizards, the longest lizards in the world. I took this off google news, when I searched up Chester zoo. I'm still puzzled about the gibbon species. There are none registered to ISIS......
The gibbons are Lar Gibbons, I may have posted this somewhere else, I can't remember. They have already arrived at Chester, ISIS seems to be about two weeks behind for Chester Zoo but it varies. Some zoos I look at seem never to be updated.
Do they have 2 pairs? Another question, I would have started a new thread, but it's only small. Are the fly's river turtles on show in the elephant house? I saw on zoolex that they were supposed to be going into the tank with the arowana and Pla Eesok.
Has anyone been to Chester and seen 'Realm of the Red Ape' I know it only opened this weekend but I can't wait to hear a discription of the exhibit and maybe some photo's. I will be visiting Chester in August.
I'm going very soon indeed. At some point this week. tell me what you want me to photo and film and I'll do my best to be of Assisstance!!!
Ok. I'll try my best. My mum talked about going tomorrow. We've got to try and time it right with the weather. Do you want me to take pictures of anything else while I'm at the zoo?
There is a lot of new developments at Chester I have not seen, but I will be visiting in August so I will see them then. Hope you have a good day at the Zoo. I myself will be visiting London Zoo on Tuesday to see Gorilla Kingdom as well as other new exhibits I have not seen. Thanks
I've Just Been to the realm of the red ape at Chester zoo. It's Brilliant!!! I have made a species list. NOTE: If I have written 2 animal species together, It means that they are in a mixed exhibit. Bornean orang-utan Orange headed thrush Chestnut Backed thrush Green tree monitor Red tailed Racer White's tree frog Bali Mynah Belanger's tree shrew( Puzzled me a bit this one.. Why not import another species?) Orchid Praying mantis Giant walking stick Leaf insect Lar Gibbon Reticulated Python King ratsnake Sumatran Orang-utan Green tree python Mangrove snake Timor sparrow Scissor billed starling ( Grosbeak starling) Chestnut Backed thrush Giant orb weaving spider ( Not currently on exhibit) Mangrove monitor Salvador's Monitor (Crocodile Monitor) I'll post up some pictures. News on the elephant house: There are two new species in the aviary at the entance. A red billed blue pie and a red jungle fowl.
The tree shrews are probably the surplus males born in 2006. There was a pair of red jungle fowl in the elpehant house aviary last week. It sounds great.
Do you think that they will change the species in that exhibit? There were no Bali Mynahs in the exhibit When I visited. I only saw a Male Jungle fowl in The elephnat house. There was a pair in the small aviary near the aquarium. Also there have been no Young with the black lion Tamarins.
Typo. Sorry. I'm going on a zoo summer school in the summer. I'll get more detailed pictures then. I'm also making a small film about it....
Hornbill- Are the Timor Sparrows a subspecies of the (commoner) Java Sparrow, or do they have their own species status? They are obviously similar- but different. How endangered are they? 'Red Ape' exhibit looks typical Chester- I look forward to seeing it in due course. Good shots of the Phillipine Deer- how many have they now? And how many Brow-antlered deer? Have you found a source yet for your dramatic announcemount about the (cancellation of) plans for Bristol's new zoo at Hollywood Towers estate ?
