Today i would like to know the Name and birthdate of the female giraffe, Born in June?! Also i would like to know the parents of her. Also i would like to know, if any changes in the Giraffe-stock happend since the new year?!
despite hailing from Tyneside I never visited flamingo land, but I remember my late partners father telling me in the early 1990's he had donated money for a zoo,in the 1960's only for it to turn into a poor mans Disneyland. Any ideas if it was a publicly subscribed zoo originally, They lived in Aclam in Middlesborogh.
Could it have been that Pentland Hick was seeking investors for his private enterprise? Flamingo Park was always a "commercial" zoo and of those that opened in the 1960s was perhaps the foremost of the general collections. Clinton Keeling who was engaged by Mr Hick to establish the zoo said he left before its opening as he did not like the direction in which it was heading, citing plans for a funfair, a caravan park and a cowboy village. It was not long before Mr Hick had established Associated Pleasure Parks and opened several satellite zoos.
May be it was an investment thing, but from what Gordon said i don't think it was explained that the fun fair etc was part of the original package. i believe he thought it was raising funds to be a proper zoological collection, now he is no longer around I can't ask him.
Clin Keeling said he too had imagined it was going to be a pure zoological garden. He recorded he had been planning lecture rooms and a Yorkshire Zoological Society. In the 1960s the other attractions (never of any interest to me even as a child - I was taken to the cowboy shootout a couple of times and once went on a helter-skelter, but to me time spent not looking at animals was time wasted) really just played second fiddle to the zoo though.
Flamingo Park as it was known was developed as a zoo with a seperate childrens farm,a traditional fair ground and a caravan park,all seperate. Pentland Hick was an entrepeneur who wanted to cater for everyone; thats why it was such a success. No one was surprised as I was when he sold the whole Associated Pleasure Parks to Scotia Investments
Flamingo Land world-class zoo : North Yorkshire zoo given world-class status (From The Northern Echo)
And mine But then, Twycross and Paradise Park Broxbourne have also been granted said status, and I suspect neither of those would be agreed-on by many here as "world class"!
The Red Pandas are now on show: The male is from Cotswolds and his female came from Rotterdam New arrivals at zoo could boost international breeding programme (From The Northern Echo)
had an email from flamingo land they don't seem to know when the rhinos are coming apart from they hope b4 the end of 2014
1.2 Sumatran Tiger cubs were born 22nd March and will be on show from Wednesday. A first breeding at Flamingo Land Zoo's new arrivals are major boost for critically-endangered tiger (From The Northern Echo)
that's good news. They've done well too keep that quiet for two months? Think this will be there first birth from "main attraction" animals since 2003 hippo calf.
I believe Flamingo Land have bred Lions and Giraffes since 2003. However, fantastic news for Flamingo Land and it's great that more cubs have been born.
