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Discussion in 'Denmark' started by kiang, 12 Oct 2008.

  1. kiang

    kiang Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    I see from their website and flickr, they have had at least 2 Chinese leopards born recently.
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    Sk?up Zoo

    This seems to be an interesting little collection along with the leopards there are vicuna, Mishmi takin and dhole amongst others.

    Maybe Toddy can bring us some more news.
    I believe the Chinese sub-species is quite rare in Europe
     
  2. Toddy

    Toddy Well-Known Member

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    I sure can ;)

    I visited Skaerup Zoo myself for the first time this spring, and enjoyed myself very much. They now have 14 different primates, including red ruffed lemurs, lar gibbons, eastern black-and-white colobus, javan leaf langurs and the very rare toque macaques (macaca sinica).

    Cats are also some of their favourites and they currently have 1.1.2 chinese leopards, one black jaguar waiting for a mate and 1.1 ocelot.

    Like mentioned above they also hold vicugnas, mishmi takins, dholes, white-lipped peccary, candian beaver and more. Their main focus is animals that cannot be seen anywhere else in Denmark.

    Their next big project is a "Cat-Centrum", with smaller rare felines.
     
  3. Toddy

    Toddy Well-Known Member

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    Just uploaded 25 photos from Skaerup Zoo in the "Denmark - Other" gallery:)