ZSL Whipsnade Zoo Whipsnade zoo 2017

Sorry didn't reply to the first question earlier! I overheard someone say Scotland, but I can't think of anywhere in Scotland that's bred them that recently?

 

Sweden, rather than Scotland: the bears are from Kolmården Wildlife Park.

 

Thanks for confirming, I didn't think Scotland could be right!

 

Thanks for the replies to my question.

 

Great news about the bears!

Just wondering does anyone have anymore idea about which antelope will be going into the Moose enclosure?

 

Just a few things I haven’t seen mentioned; Gaur are now by the otters, scimitar horned onyx moved across to the ostrich field, ostriches moved to the field which is best described as being behind the maintenance shed near the otters. There’s emu by the wild bite bus stop. There’s black capped squirrel monkeys in the outside bit off the discovery centre which used to occassionally have the white faced saki’s, which I didn’t see around.

 

I think it's the Gemsbok ( not scimitar horned oryx) that have moved to the former ostrich / Lechwe paddock next to their old one, which in turn is now occupied by the Gaur.

 

How come

 

Desertas wolf spiders have arrived at ZSL Whipsnade from Bristol Zoo.

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Visited today - forgotton how suddenly it seems to get SO cold at Whipsnade. Definitely should have worn some gloves!

All three brown bears in the enclosure together - the new youngsters seem understandably nervous of Wellington when she gets too close but other than that they all looked pretty settled. Playing in the water and using the enrichment feeders etc.

3 of the female elephants (I think Donna, Karishma and one other) and the two youngsters were in the bull pen with Emmet - did not see the rest of the herd.

I may have just never noticed them before - but we saw some indian leaf butterflys in the butterfly house which were a first for me and very interesting.

I concur with the below:

 

Thanks for confirming Zia, it's good to know I hadn't imagined it!

 

Zia regarding your statement 3 of the female elephants ( I think Donna Karishma and one other) and the two youngsters were In The Null pen with Emmet-did not see the rest of the hurd. Could this mean one or all of the others are ill in some way or one is injured and the other ones are keeping it company. Also is there a chance that the unssen elephants may being/have moved to another zoo or safari park in Europe.

 

It just means we did not see them on our visit today. Not sure why you'd jump to either of those conclusions.

 

I agree, the prickly ones conclusions are probably nonsense! The Elephants are regularly split differently!

 

There have been leafwings at Whipsnade since their walkthrough opened they came from London who have them too.

 

You really need to start thinking before you post - of course they haven’t moved half of the herd away. If the elephants were ill Zia wouldn’t have seen any of them as they would all have been being quarantined.

 

Did you see their 'mating dance'? Rather fantastic.

 

They were probably in the far paddock which is screened by a hedge and can't really be seen from visitor vantage points. I tend to agree that such wild theories as above about them don't help as some people may start to think this is fact.

 

No - just saw one lone one on a branch and then spotted a few others in the the hatching thing (I feel sure that has a proper name but I don't know what it is!). I will look out for that next time though - thank you.

 

Visited yesterday and a new white rhino has arrived from Denmark with a view to breed, it is having trouble settling in as it has had very little contact with people, but the keeper seemed very positive about the arrival.