I don't know if the adult Bonobo swap at all, but the youngsters always seem to be in the same group, apart from Malaika who never seems to have a playmate Anyway, I went today and spent a couple of hours looking for the newborn Bonobo. Mum was keeping secure and didn't like me pointing my camera towards it. Also overheard that the Hyena is still on the surplus list and that they're hoping to find her a new home, which is contrary to what someone else here was told.
Shame you didn't spot the new bonobo baby And Diatou is Malaika's mother, and I'm quite certain she was Lopori's 'adoptive mother' for a while...in any case I reckon Keke and Kakowet are switched from time to time (the former to impregnate Cheka, Kianga and Banya, and the latter to impregnate Diatou), and they really should put Banya and Mokonzi, or Cheka and her sons in with Diatou and Malaika, to allow Malaika some kids of her own age to play with
Oh, I did see it, just not for the first couple of hours I kept giving way to groups of school kids, probably at the wrong time It was their turn out today, but too cold, so only took advantage of it for a couple of short spells.
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I really really would not hope the Javan langurs would be on phase out! What is the current size of the group? Also: any info on the group of dusky langurs would be appreciated! I would advocate a new langur house along / close by the new Gibbon Forest! in all fairness.
I could only see two Javan langurs; a black and a rufous individual. And the dusky langurs were four that I could see, three adults and a child.
Javans- that sounds like the same two I saw a year ago- their last ones I believe. Definately heard talk of them being phased out. Duskies- I think I saw five- male, three females and there was a young one being handraised(?) in a small pen within the enclosure. Maybe this one is now in the group and an older one or two have died this year, but another has been born?
I think the young one is the same one you are thinking of, it was no longer orange. And there may have been five, but I could only see three adults sitting indoors with the youngster. One was definitely a male.
Lemur walk through update: We have a new species in lemur walk through! You can now walk among the red-ruffed lemurs who have been introduced in with the ring-tailed lemurs for the first time.
There was definitely youngster 'missing' or just hard to spot there was a young one similar age to the one being hand reared but last time I was there I could only locate one. No idea which one it is though
Once the entire complex is complete, and the Bonobo's, Gorillas and Orang-utans are in their with the chimps, I believe the plan is for it to be called 'Kingdom of the Apes'
I was on the Twycross website the other day and noticed that they have a brand new zoo map for 2016. I quite like it myself. I hope "Kingdom of the Ape" does become real.
I would be confident that the working title will change once all great apes are rehoused into the new facility.
March 2015 Press release states 'Chimpanzee Eden' will be the first phase of a planned 'Cognitive Centre' for all their Great Apes. Maybe it will be called that when completed.
'Cognitive Centre' reminds me of the anatomy of the brain. Might it at be at the top end of 'Spinal Avenue' linking the houses of the different vertebrates? I hope I'll be able to visit 'The Hippocampus', where a range of seahorse species will be displayed I know I'm getting grumpier as I get older, but I'm sure that zoos really are giving features sillier and sillier names each year. Alan
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