Female Sumatran Tiger, CinCin Emas (aka Janine) was exported to Ramat Gan in Israel at the end of 2018. Leaving 1.1 at South Lakes (none breeding siblings)
Cin Cin was in an exhibit on her own, she was separated from her Brother and 2 sisters as she was bullied. I wasn't aware of one of the others dying / leaving so surely South Lakes still have the 3 Sumatran Tigers in the main exhibit ? If not where did the other one go and when ? Least this means they can separate Remi and Bonita now.
The Snow Leopards are a breeding pair and have bred before and the zoo are waiting for the final one of their off spring to leave the collection. The Sumatran Tigers are a sibling pair so won’t breed. Remi and Bonita the Jaguars are son and mother. They are now likely to improve the Jaguar exhibit giving them access to both sides with the aim to breed from Remi, unless the stub book says he has to move elsewhere. The lions are very old. The male probably only has a year or two left at most and the female is too old to breed. Not cats but the Arctic Wolves (hybrids) breed most years but they have a number of pups on the surplus list from previous litters so I imagine the females are on implants at present.
Is there even a stud book for Jaguar given almost all of those in Europe are non-specific sub-species? (general question, not just to original poster).
When I spoke to a keeper at Chester they said that their jaguars hadn’t bred because one of them was on contraception at the advice of the studbook holder
I assume the studbook is there in this case to prevent inbreeding and to keep the gene pool diverse, I don't think it's got anything to do with purity in this particular case.
The sloth has moved to an indoor enclosure near the old avery. For the third time since December, no sign of pygmy hippo. Apologies if I missed that post. It seems.they may have moved elsewhere? Work going on at the mamed wolf area and tapir area. Panda cubs growing well. Seems to be an awful lot of wolves, I sincerely hope there aren't more this year
Do you mean the Sloth is no longer in the tropical house ? Which aviary do you mean ? Pygmy Hippo shares his paddock with Tortoise. He rarely leaves his house and likes to stay in his pool these days, so they actually took his signage down as you can't see in his house so they didn't want to display him as an onshow animal as you rarely see him. He is expected to leave the collection at some point anyway. The female left some time ago. The Tapir is being moved opposite the Maned Wolf, that exhibit should be finished soon, once moved they hope to get another Tapir (hopefully a male) . The Maned Wolves will stay in their current exhibit, it's just the Tapir moving next door, The house was nearly finished in December, but they didn't think it would be totally finished until easter. A number of the wolves are on the surplus list and the females are on implant. They won't be having pups this year, although a number of the last lot of babies they had didn't actually survive.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by tropical house. The sloth was in the monkey enclosure which holds the gibbons certainly until the end of this summer. It used to share with the fennex fox and the squirrel monkeys. It seems to now only hold the squirrel monkeys. The Avery is the one that holds the parrots and the building is up by what was Gills old house - in bygone days it held kangaroos, a couple of turtles, a snake and some bats. Before they seperated the birds it held vultures I've personally not been inside for some time.
The tropical house is the house behind the Amazonian Aviary. The Sloth has been up there since June last year ! It's normally open 2 hours a day. In there is a few Fruit Bats, Tortoises and a couple of birds which don't have access to the Aviary. A lot of the Fruit Bats have left as they were on the surplus list. There were Bettongs in there for a while but I believe they have now moved on. Squirrel Monkeys have been in that exhibit in the Primate house since the summer, although the outside didn't have viewing for a while, but the Sloth moved to the tropical house in June. There hasn't been a Fennec Fox at Safari Zoo for about 4 years now! The Kangaroo's are now in the walkthrough safari, and the Anaconda is on display in the keeper room next to the Giraffes. It may get moved to the discovery centre at some stage, but that isn't actually open to anyone bar classes yet.
4 year old male Jaguar, Remi, has been diagnosed with Hemangiosarcoma - a very aggressive form of malignant cancer. Full story on Safari Zoo Facebook page.
Just read the post on Facebook... Sad to believe we have now lost another bear from a popular UK collection this year (after Inca the Asian black bear at Dudley and Hayley the Eurasian brown bear at Dartmoor). Quick question: Wasn't Snoopy also the last of the Andean bears to be kept at South Lakes? If he was, then it truly is very devastating that such a rare and beautiful species has now gone from the collection.
