Zoo guidebooks

16-10-2007

Couldn't people sacn thier guides and post them on the gallery?

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16-10-2007

that would impose on copyright laws, though i think it would be kool, nice idea!

16-10-2007

i've got some early 80's taronga (you know the ones that had the red panda on the front) a melbourne zoo guidebook.

the melbourne one has some oddities i don't much remember. in it are common hippo housed in what looks to be like the old concrete and brick hippo pools that used to house the pygmies next door to the old elephant exhibit (this was demolished in the very early 90's to make way for the japanese garden).

the bengal tigers were housed in an exhibit i certainly don't remember, grassy, it had tall concrete walls on all sides. at a guess i'm thinking this may have been one of the old bear pits that are now apparently buried.

there were juaguar cubs.

teh old baboon cages held a lot more primates. mandrill and ring-tailed lemurs. i certainly remeber mandrill and de brazza in there when i was a kid.

the lemur islands had a family of lar gibbons. i believe these animals are the ones at gorge wildlife park and last i saw, they are still "owned" by melbourne zoo.

the australian section was much bigger.

and naturally, the zoo held a lot more ungulates than they do now, llamas, eland, red deer, barbary sheep etc..

16-10-2007

Memories..... light the corners of my mind......" - I remember it well

Ahhh, the famous "Top six" that became the "Top three"! Yes, there used to be six nice concrete primate "exhibits" up there. Left to right (if memory serves me correctly), Mandrills, Gelada Baboons, Sacred (Hamadryas) Babbons, Ring-tailed Lemurs, Black-Capped Capuchins and Macaques (I must be getting old, can't remeber what species they were - Rhesus, I think?) The six were turned into three about 12 years ago, in an attempt to "beautify" them!

Indeedy. There used to be white-handed and Muller's gibbons on the islands - White-handed on the island down the bottom end near the old big cat cages, and Muller's on the island at the back of the kiosk near the Japanese garden.

16-10-2007

ah ha!!!! thats why there is still an old primate cage on that island!!

they should use it again. there are good views from the bistro (that admittedly i have never, ever eaten at)!

geladas! bet theres a few hera who wish they still had em. yes, i too think i can remember macaques at melbourne. pig-tailed?

was i right about the hippo? and where was that tiger exhibit?

the giraffe exhibit also had a tall mesh fence around it in the photos.

16-10-2007

Yes, and forgive me for heading away from the thread, but there's also (or used to be) a "special" exhibit hidden behind the Muller's/Siamang island that's only visible from the VIP function room in the bistro - it used to have a group of cotton-top tamarins in it.

That's them! Pig-tailed macaques. You young pups can sure help an old fella with Alzheimer's remember the old days!

Yes, the pygmy hippo exhibits were a row of three (I think), glass-fronted exhibits, with under-cover walkway for the visitors. The pygmy hippo night dens backed onto the side of the old ele barn. They were basically big concrete water troughs. They now have the large cycads in the Japanese garden growing over where they used to be.

I'll have to check the guidebook this evening, but I think the tiger exhibit in that book was along the side wall, down near the back entrance. Behind the lake that used to have the white-handed gibbons on it. (Did you ever hear the story about the naked man that lived on that island???)

Yup - It was a very bold and modern move to remove that fence, and have an "open-moated" exhibit. Very forward thinking at the time

16-10-2007

nice one. melbourne certainly has quite a holding capacity as far as city zoos go. the squirrel monkeys are often off display, not sure ehere they live (maybe that tamarin enclosure) and too is a second group of spider monkeys i think. but all these islands are going to come in handy when the time comes to rip down the treetop apes exhibit!

dont ask me how i remembered that! i may have been about 8 when i last saw them!!

please tell...........

16-10-2007

please dont tell, stay on thread

19-07-2008

Hi Rob,
I've got four diffrent Guidebooks from Western plains Zoo, 1986 (Tiger),1993 ( White Rhinos ),1996 ( black Rhino with calf ), 2002 ( Tiger).

Cazhy, hope, you'll read his, I' colelct Zoogudiebooks since many years and I'm very interested in australian guidebooks, so iT woulb be great, if you could the new guidebooks from your zoos, and we can exchange, I have a lot of double guidebooks from around the world. But I'm afraid,s ome of the big australian zoos do not publish any longer a gudiebook, so melbourne has published the latest edition in 2001 ( or is there a new edition now ? ), and Perth has published in 1999 a real guide. They had a small guide in 2004.

I have scaned all my guidebook covers, and these are now more than 3270 guidebooks ( I need several months for that ) so make a guidebook catalog. So the problem is, how I can get the covers on cd, I'm not a computer guy, so I don't know, how I can make the pictures smaller, to get all of them on one or two cds. Unfortunately, I don't know someone who could help me.

27-07-2008

Hi does anyone know how many guide books Marwell Zoo has published i have about 11 different ones if any one knows i would be very grateful for any information

27-07-2008

Zooman1 l have a marwell guide book. It would have to be at least 25 years old. Interesting it has no publish date in it!

It has drawings of animals on the cover conntained in a circle. Tiger at the bottom and hunting dog at the top of circle.With 10 animals in total in the circle. If that helps you to id it.

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27-07-2008

Thank you zooman that is one i have not got so that makes its at least 12 they have done then many thanks

28-07-2008

I have 15 diffrent guides from Marwell:

1972-Tiger
1977-Giraffe, waterbucks
1979 Tiger lying in front of a tree
1982-Tiger with cubs
1984-Snowleopard
1985- diffrent drawing animals
1987-cheetah
1989 -golden lion tamarin
1994-tiger in water
1995-white rhino
1998-ring tailed lemurs
2000-somali wild ass with foal
2002- amur leopard
2004-red panda
2006 diffrent animal eyes

28-07-2008

i have just check mine and i have 14 which are

1 Grevy's Zebra and Scimitar Horned Oryx outside the Hall
2 Amur Tiger sitting on rocks
3 Amur Tiger laying by a tree
4 Giraffe and Waterbucks with 3 smaller pics on the top ( Red Panda,Amur Tiger and Brazilian Tapir)
5 Amur Tiger family
6 Snow Leopard
7 Amur Tiger in water
8 Cheetah and cub
9 White Rhino
10 Ring Tailed Lemur family
11 Somali Wild Ass and foal
12 Jaguar face
13 Red Panda
14 Many different eye

i know off to others Golden lion Tamarin and one of many different drawings does anyone else know of any others

28-07-2008

The best place to find out is Zoo History and go to the contents page and click on the section for the list of all known U.K zoo guide books,this list contains dates where known and a description of the covers and in some cases other information to indentify diffferent varients of some guide books.