There seems no news about the destinations of all the other animals that were at Cricket St Thomas. Other larger species they still had last year from memory included; Lechwe S.H. Oryx Sitatunga. Axis Deer(small herd of about 15/20) Cheetahs Amur Leopards. Hunting Dog pair. Brazilian Tapir(?) Emus.(20 +) Bagot Goats Capybara Plus Meerkats, Maras, Cranes, Sulawesi and Spider Monkeys, Emperor Tamarins, Yellow(?) Mongoose, Lemurs, parrots, pheasants etc. I don't know what species they have retained- if any.
Had a look on the web and apparentley lemurs, meerkats, mongoose, fallow deer, wallabies and flamingoes are still there.
its such a shame they had to move on the bigger animals i used to like going there as its not to far away from me but now theres nothing really to make be want to go back never mind
I also wonder how many of the other larger species were quietly euthanased if they weren't able to rehome them.
surely they would not of done that i hope any how. they did not have many animals of each speceis tho did they I am not saying for sure that they did, but the total number of animals was quite large, yet despite that we have not heard of any other collections announcing new arrivals 'from Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park'.
Well, 20 emu is quite a lot, not an easy species to place, and perhaps still today with some commercial value? I have worked somewhere in the past where our emu chicks went to ostrich farms, 'to become breeding stock'. I don't think you're likely to hear of most species leaving. I do know 3 ground hornbills went to Drusillas, I think they are housed where the snowy owls were. The fact that Cricket supposedly still has fallow deer should indicate that they might not be so keen to euthanase healthy animals....these would almost certainly have been culled rather than placed elsewhere IMO. Although the current management are not connected, I'm sure there is distant memory of the controversy created when Sahib, a healthy bull elephant, was euthanased at Cricket with a rifle after not mixing well with the females and, I imagine, impossible to place elsewhere being hand-reared and not a well-socialised bull.
I forgot the Ground Hornbills. These are probably some of the ones they bred. There were only about 3 or 4 Fallow- they were all females and looked very tame(handraised?). There was a larger herd of Axis Deer on a less accessable hillside paddock. I'd be interested in how many camels went to Yorkshire- Cricket had quite a number of them. I imagine the most likely candidates for euthanasia might have been the old pair of Hunting Dog (from Port Lymne originally). I would be interested to know what happened to their stock generally as no other movements have surfaced..
Had a quick check of my YWP photos from July - they have at least 6 camels (all from Cricket as far as I'm aware). I'd have thought they'd be unlikely to turn up anywhere else - they were pretty ancient.
That is probably all of Cricket's camels accounted for then. If other zoos have each taken individual animals from them they probably wouldn't announce it but if Exmoor (or elsewhere) took a bulk lot then we'd be more likely to hear about it.
