ZooChat Challenge Europe 2020

Cotswold Wildlife Park, 09/09/2020

46. Southern Tamandua (VERY active)
47. Giant Anteater
48. African Straw Coloured Fruit Bat
49. Hammer Headed Fruit Bat
50. Sebas Short Tailed Bat

(I was able to see into the bat house via the glass door, even though it was closed. The bats are clearly visible, and signed... the Spinefex exhibit is on show too, but I was unable to see the species).

 

There are always some at the far end of the tropical house(closed) , I saw at least 4 through the glass.
Looks like you missed out, but I slipped up on the Seba's, I saw the house was closed & didn't realise you could see them from outside!

 

Ah, how annoying! I did try and have a look into the TH, but the planting is very dense... maybe next time!

 

Bristol Zoo Gardens- 25.08.2020
42) Brush-tailed Bettong (Bettongia penicillata)
43) Six-banded Armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)

Axe Valley Wildlife Park- 27.08.2020
44) Indian Crested Porcupine (Hystrix indica)
45) Chacoan Mara (Dolichotis salinicola)
46) Finlayson's Squirrel (Callosciurus finlaysonii)
47) Lesser Egptian Jerboa (Jaculus jaculus)
48) Brazilian Guinea Pig (Cavia aperea)

Shaldon Zoo- 28.08.2020
49) Green Acouchy (Myoprocta pratti)

Paignton Zoo- 28.08.2020
50) Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)

Longleat Safari Park- 31.08.2020
51) Southern Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
52) Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons)
53) North American Tree Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)

 

Couple more additions:

Hamerton Zoo

63. Fat sand rat

WWT Slimbridge

64. Water vole

 

Just a couple to add from today
24/9/20 Wingham

61 Northern Luzon Cloud Rat
62 Plantain Squirrel

 

Chester Zoo (last week)

51. Aardvark

Virtually everything else that I needed was off show ... Or I just didn't know where they were

 

Opel-Zoo Kronberg

107. European Flying Squirrel (Pteromys voilans)

Tiergarten Schönbrunn

108. Pallas' Long-tongued Bat (Glossophaga soricina)
109. Indian Flying Fox (Pteropus giganteus)
110. Large Flying Fox (Pteropus vampyrus)

Zoo Wroclaw

111. Arabian Spiny Mouse (Acomys dimidiatus)
112. Long-eared Hedgehog (Hemiechinus auritus)
113. Hammerheaded Fruit Bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus)
114. Madagascar Flying Fox (Pteropus rufus)
115. Pygmy White-toothed Shrew (Suncus etruscus)
116. Red and White Giant Flying Squirrel (Petaurista alborufa)
117. White-tailed Antsangy (Brachytarsomys albicauda)
118. Flower's Gerbil (Gerbillus floweri)

Tierpark Görlitz

119. Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)
120. Pere David Rock Squirrel (Sciurotamias davidianus)
121. Steppe Lemming (Lagurus lagurus)

Zoo Leipzig

122. Formosan Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla pentadactyla)
123. Ansell's Mole Rat (Fukomys ansellii)
124. Fat Sand Rat (Psammomys obesus)
125. Grizzled Giant Squirrel (Ratufa macroura)
126. Small Flying Fox (Pteropus hypomelanus)

 

8/10/20 Exmoor

63 Large Hairy Armadillo
64 Eastern Grey Kangaroo
65 Dusky Pademelon

Hopefully one or two more to add tomorrow

 

Not as many as I hoped!
9/10/20

Shaldon

66 Green Accouchi
67 Brush tailed Bettong

Axe Valley
68 Chacoan Mara

Doubt I will get many, if any more

 

Zoo Plzen 8. 10. 2020

84. White-striped dorcopsis (Dorcopsis hageni)
85. Southern tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus)


Not in a way I expected/intended but I did actually finished my hyrax quartet!

 

Not sure why I'm still going since 2020 has been a bit of a write-off but sod it, I'm invested now!

23. Livingstone's Fruit Bat
24. Goodfellow's Tree Kangroo

You can probably guess that I visited Bristol today and unfortunately the Nocturnal House is closed at the minute. Sort of put a dampener on me even getting an okay score, and I missed out on some fairly juicy species to add as well...

 

2 more to add today from Noah's, plus one I thought I had already but was seen last year.

Bristol 14/10
25. Six-banded Armadillo

NAZF 15/10
26. Black-tailed Prairie Marmotp
27. Domestic Rabbit (ironic that it's taken me this long to see one considering I live with a bunny!)

 

London Zoo

65. White-tailed antsangy

 

Is the Clore open again now then? If so then I may pay a visit next week. Been a while since I visited, Antsangy could just pull me back!

 

The Clore has been open for a while, just the nocturnal areas (downstairs and the little alcove where the aye-ayes, and now also the antsangy, are) have been off limits. Downstairs is now open again, the alcove was still blocked off when I visited but I managed to peek in and spot an antsangy having a scratch on top of a log stump!

 

Cheers, London is definitely on the table then.

 

London 22/10
28. Short-eared Elephant Shrew
29. Malagasy Jumping Rat
30. Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec

Only had 2 hours so couldn't stalk out the tamandua or antsangy. But got Hamerton on the horizon so should get some good stuff from there.

 

Quite likely my last addition for this challenge.

Dierenpark Zie-ZOO
46. Kowari, Dasyuroides byrnei

A single individual was quite active around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It took me multiple visits to see one but maybe other zoochatters can use this information to their advantage. They're still in the enclosure opposite of the ring-tailed vontsiras in the "reptile attic".

 

Could be my last entry for the year...

Chester 2/11

31. Aardvark
32. Acacia Rat
33. Pygmy Mouse
34. Prevost's Squirrel
35. Belanger's Tree Shrew

Fruit Bat Forest is closed so not Rodriguez Flying Foxes, and I'm not hopeful for the Cloud Rat either so thought I'd post this whilst having a beer in The Oakfield over a beer or two...