Correct. There is a single Siamang where you say. And that side of the Elephant enclosure is fenced-off including access from that side to the indoors also. There is an additional Siamang- or two? in what was the 'young Chimp' enclosure. Plus three in the Gibbon Forest. Total, either Five or Six, divided between three seperate locations.
No idea but work did not seem to be underway, it was all just standing empty with some notices saying it was 'being renovated'....
The zoo currently has 7 Siamangs: A mother and her two sons in Gibbon Forest, the lone male & a pair and there offspring in the old chimp enclosure
Gibbons are territorial and monogamous. So, what you are suggesting is an social structure an ethological impossibility.
Compared to a few years back, Twycross seem to have had a bit of an upswing with some of their Primates recently. What with the new Gibbon Forest and the successful breeding in several Monkey groups. In the larger monkeys they currently have viable breeders/groups in the De Brazza's, Diana, and L'Hoests Guenons, and the Francois and Spectacled Langurs. Plus the Gibbon groups and Spider monkeys. There are still several older singletons; Colobus, Javan Langur, Crowned Guenon etc while still having more Siamangs than they need to house realistically, but generally there seems to have been a move toward establishing viable groups of rather fewer species -which is a good thing to see.
Sharon Redrobe has received an OBE in the NY honours. For services to skills, science and the economy in Leicestershire
I somewhat think it is a pity that Redrobe was promoted straight to OBE when Mollie Badham was only ever given an MBE, but then I suppose the awards were for different reasons (Badham's award being for services to the conservation of endangered species) and as such are not directly comparable.
