ZooChat Challenge UK 2014

Contratu-******-lations, top props to you.

Very impressed with your imperious procession.

I look forward to getting the trophy engraved and getting to you.

Thanks again, your dedication and enthusiasm is appreciated.

I''ll post more coherent when sober

 

I just want to point out how lucky you Brits are. For all the complaining you do about loss of diversity in your zoos, 76 old-world primates is an immense number (although I realise a number of these are held in extremely low numbers).

For a slight comparison, there are just ten OWP species in New Zealand, and 27 in Australia. Only a fraction of these are anywhere near a sustainable population and many have population sizes that can be counted on the fingers of a single hand (and a few just on the thumb!).

 

Visa versa with marsupials and monotremes. One collection with dasyurids! One collection with vombatiforms! One collection with tree kangaroos!

Psst. Get us a pair of devils and we'll give you all the lemurs you will ever need.

 

True for Australia (not NZ where there are just 7 marsupial species - 5 of which are macropods), but they are native here cf. old world primates in the UK!

 

Thanks to shorts for initiating the zoochat challenges and the trophy. It was nice to meet you properly and good to meet up with the other zoochatters again today at twycross.

 

'Twas pleasure to meet you two (plus one) too and thanks for making the challenge so competitive.