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Old 07-05-2008

We have been part of Zoobeat for some time now.... but never formally introduced ourselves...

We are Daniel and Dale

We both love animals have too many of our own, currently Daniel is studying in the animal field and We both do Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, we live in Sydney, and have an intrest in zoos around australia and overseas.

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Hello welcome !
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Hello!

I never introduced myself....
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Hi Daniel and Dale, welcome to zoobeat

WrithedHornbill, do you really need to introduce yourself? I think you are one of the most well known and respected members on the forum.
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I don't think there's any point....
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Not really, and I've noticed you always welcome new members, that is nice.
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Hi Guys,

I just want to say hello , it's my first posting here and so I want to introduce myself.

I'm a zoofan from germany, I love animals and zoos since my earlist childhood and its my pleasure to visit every zoo and aquarium I can. My special interested are hoofed animals, especially all species of antelope, as my nickname says. Unfortunately, duikers are now very rare in zoos, we have here in germany only three diffrent species, the yellowbacked duikers ( unfortunately the only breeding female in europe died that year ),blue duikers ( only one german zoo with this species ) and red duikers, which can be seen now in now 6 german zoos. This is one of the few antelope species, which are not kept in any Us-Zoo.

Because I'm very interested in antelopes, but a lot of diffrent antelope species can not being watched in any european zoo,I made my first trip to the USA in 2002, fortunately, I could visit the Gladys Porter Zoo and I could see the Jentinkduikers and the last Hirola, which lived in a tiny, old and ugly enclosure behind the scenes.

I enjoyed my trip to the States, and my favourite zoo is, no wonder, the San Diego WAP.
Its a great zoo, and so I returned to the States in 2005 to visit this amazing place again.There are so many rare antelope species, which we don't have here in europe, Gerenuk,Soemmerings gazelle, Spekes gazelle, Bontebok, a lot of duikers, royal antelope, Suni, Bushbock,Giant Eland.So the States are my paradise . Next year, I will come back, this time, to the east coast.

Since many years, I collect zoo literature, so I have now a zooguidecollection with 3,245 diffrent zooguidebooks from all over the world.

If anybody here has any questions, please ask. I know so much german zoo( and other zoos in europe, of course), so I hope, I can answer your questions.

Greetings from germany,

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Welcome to ZooBeat Zebraduiker!!! Your guide book collection is amazing...
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Welcome to Zoobeat Zebraduiker
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@snowleopard and Mark. Thank you ! I'm very proud to have this big zoo guidecollection, I'm collecting zooguides since 1987. My oldest guides are from Frankfurt Zoo from 1860,1862,1863,1866,and 1877.

I'm born in Frankfurt, so that zoo is my "Homezoo" and I know a lot of people in this zoo. So if anybody here has any question to this or other german zoo, please aks me, I would be very happy to answer your questions. Frankfurt zoo has shortly opened a new, huge Apehouse, called"Borgori-wald" for Gorillas, Orangs ,Bonobos and Drills. At this time, they working on the outdoor exhibits,the Gorillas,Drills and guerzas will share one huge exhibit.
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Welcome here Think I know who you are Have fun here, i´m sure you´ll have.
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Hi Animal,

Thank you. At last, I've found a really good Zooforum, especially an international one...
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Zebraduiker, maybe you have a few photos you could add to the gallery?, maybe some rare antelopes?
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Of course I have, so please have a look to the section"Other north american zoos" and "European zoos" More pictures will follow, but now it's bedtime for me, in a few hours I will start my Zoo-Trip to Berlin,Schwerin,Rostock,Leipzig and Halle.

I'll be back next week, with tons of impressions, photos and of course, guidebooks.
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Have a good trip, hope you see heaps of great animals
 


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