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  1. dancharlie29

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    The new lion does seem to resemble shikar , age appearance, shape of eyes etc. Need to go and have a look really.

    Sorry for the confusion alfiethetortois, my point was just they're misfortune of big cat introductions or in kadis case reintroduction . The difference was David gill is open about the killed lioness but far from open about Kadi.

    Also don't question where the mandrill troop went on their Facebook, they stop you from being able to comment .
     
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    That may be because they don't want you to know what happened to them,I know a few people deep in Europe and none of them,know of this group arriving there,I suspect unless somebody that can get the info from zims says what happened to them,all we can do is guess what happened to them,mine is a big hole!!
     
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  3. alfiethetortois

    alfiethetortois Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Looking through some old pictures this lion picture could be Shirkar. We're going again soon so I'll check. The facebook page this morning says the new lion is called Nero. Any ideas?

    In other news jag Cubs will be on show from today...
     
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    Here is a picture of the new lion that popped up on the facebook page - It's certainly quite young.

    The picture I posted therefore was Shirkar :eek: (I did think they looked similar) the whole pride was unsettled and the females weren't going near him on the day I visited (last wednesday) Will try to pop over again and find out some more information.

    https://www.facebook.com/SouthLakesSafariZoo?ref=ts&fref=ts
     
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  5. TeaLovingDave

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    The official story, as ever, is that it would be immoral to steal the arrival publicity from the location "deep in Europe" - though I suspect the more accurate term would be six-foot deep in the part of Europe known as Dalton-on-Furness :p
     
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    It was indeed! Both FB pages for SLWAP have had the relevant post scrubbed from existence - quelle surprise! - but here is a link to when the news originally broke on Zoochat:

    https://www.zoochat.com/community/posts/717077

    As noted above, anyone interested enough to enquire now gets banned from posting on the SLWAP Facebook page!
     
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    Pertinax Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Yes, I see now that I made a comment at the time. So much going on everywhere I sometimes forget. Oh well...:rolleyes: Enough said about this (for now) I think.
     
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    Does anyone know anything about Zoopark Zájezd in the Czech Republic...? ;)
     
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    This place took Heythrop's group of (female) Mandrills
     
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  10. TeaLovingDave

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    Not much - they have a breeding group of Gabon Talapoin but have not heard much about them otherwise.
     
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    I ask because apparently they were the recipients of SL's mandrills!
     
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    Where did you hear that? It would be quite the achievement as according to ZTL they received their mandrills in 2011, and the SLWAP ones did not leave until 2013 :p
     
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    A zoological information management system... Does ZTL list every acquisition of animals or just when they as a species first arrived?

    EDIT: I don't know how many SL had though, so it may not have been all of them!
     
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    it is a zoo and animal dealer, and they are always looking for mandrills to send to chinese zoos.
     
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    and indeed, all 4 animals that were left in South Lakes went there.
     
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    Hence perhaps the reluctance to give further information, if that was the ultimate destination.
     
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    Indeed - we may have been wrong to suspect the demise of the mandrills, but we are still correct to have questioned the course of events given that the exact same reason for non-disclosure of information (and cited location) had previously been given falsely in the case of the tiger cub.
     
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  18. Nisha

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    South Lakes had a group of around 15 individuals when they went out of them... so that still leaves the question of where did they rest go? :rolleyes:
     
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    A good point, that :p
     
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  20. dancharlie29

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    Especially with the expansion that is going on. Never mind I'm sure there will be plenty of other exciting species to come.

    I messaged slwap about the new lion before there Facebook post about nero, asking age, where he is from etc. The message was seen and it looks like for some reason I'm being ignored.
     
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