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Woburn !
14-03-2008

Hello, i'm working at Woburn Safari park on the lions section ( lions, tigers, bears and wolves).

If you need informations

14-03-2008

Hi Cottoni, Whats happening with the Asian elephant herd there are they expending the size of the herd, is there any sign of them breeding yet

14-03-2008

Hi,

the elephants have just moved in their new house. I don't know how it is going about breeding, i'll ask

15-03-2008

Weren't those three elephants bought up together from babies? If so, then do you think they will ever breed? Might they sort of think of each other as brothers and sisters, but nothing more?

15-03-2008

Any info on the lions , bears etc would be nice names , age , ratio of genders

15-03-2008

Hi there, you know, I'm not very informed about the elephant section.


We have 16 lions: 1 male, 3 castrated males, 3 youngs and the females.

3 tigers: 1male and 2 females separated from the male because he's not pure.

We've got 7 bears, 2 males ( 1castrated and 1 had vasectomy).

6 wolves.

15-03-2008

so what its liek working with bears ? any names etc

15-03-2008

they are very quiet, they sleep and eat...

Do you think knowing their names is important ?

15-03-2008

So you offer to give information out, and when someone asks for it, you throw it back in their face with some sarcastic answer?

15-03-2008

Come on guys lets not go there, be cool

15-03-2008

Sorry, that was just annoying lol

15-03-2008

Its all cool

16-03-2008

I was just thinking of more important information...like what they are fed on, or if they breed...

Our tigers are Korushka, Neurka and Tosh.

For the lions, I don't know all of them for the moment :

Shain the male, Gemma Tambi et Naja the 3 dominant females and Ace, Flint and Balaa the 3 castrated males.

I don't know the names of the wolves.

I know George and Rough the 2 males bears and I don't know the names of the 5 females.

16-03-2008

was the decision to end the breeding potential of the two male bears undertaken when there were only two males left? This will be the last of this species in the UK when this group dies out now. A shame, but they are probably the lowest priority for a bear species in conservation terms.

I think a lot of people on this board are interested in the elephants. Are there plans to bring in any more, if so do you know when this is happening/ where they are coming from? Have the current 3 shown any breeding behaviour so far?

thanks

16-03-2008

Do you have any plans or pictures of the new elephant house?

Last I heard, the plans had to be significantly scaled back due to budgetary reasons...