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14-06-2007

Does anyone know when the new Elephant exhibit at Dublin Zoo is to open or even have any photo's.
thanks

16-06-2007

It says on their website the new calf(and the others obviously) can be seen 'in early June' when the elephant exhibit is/was to open. But nothing updated.

29-06-2007

I have just booked a flight to Dublin for the day on August 9th, were I will be spending must of the day at the zoo. I have seen a couple of photo's of the new Elephant exhibit and it looks good and has many enrichment features.
Shall post photo's and comments on my return.

29-06-2007

Maybe you can find out what they are proposing to do about a bull and whether they have already built a facility for one?

01-09-2007

Type Dublin zoo into Wikipedia and you get abit of info and some pics. I was told that the bull enclosure was being bulit in the second stage, and a bull would arrive about a year after the females.

02-09-2007

There are two more females at BElfast Zoo of breeding age too- the mother and her female calf(father was Luka, he went to Port Lympne and now Spain) which was born there some years ago now. Since Jubilee (not a breeder anyway) died, there has been no bull elephant in Ireland.

Hopefully a bull at Dublin would be available to the two Belfast females as well....

02-09-2007

If we are talking elephant conservation here is another example of an individual elephant clearly of breeding age and prior birthing experience. I my mind Belfast Zoo should opt ot loan out her and her female calf to one of the proven bulls in UK collections to breed.

What plans does the Belfast Zoo - which is very conservation oriented and participates in quite a few EEP programmes - plan for Asian elephant? A new house and yard? Bull addition?

02-09-2007

Yes, this is another 'difficult' situation, with two breeding aged females and no bull. I heard talk previously that their existing house is inadequate to keep a bull, yet they have had two already, including a very dangerous one- Luka, who previously killed two keepers in Belgrade Zoo... Then Chester's Jubilee- but he was more like a female...

Belfast also have one or two older(post-breeding age) females as well so what I would like to see is quite simple here- the mother and calf sent to join the Dublin group when they get their bull, on a permanent basis...

02-09-2007

The 2 elelphants were are talking about are Jothi (Vishesh's mother) is actually 39 and Vishesh (10). Of all other elephants only Tina at 43 survives. The other older female Lulu died in 2006.

02-09-2007

Didn't they have Judy from Chester also? Did she die a while ago?

In answer to your earlier question, i don't know what Belfast's plans for their elephants are. I imagine it won't include getting another male though. I would think Jothi could breed again, having given birth already. If they sent Vishesh to Dublin alone it would mean splitting her from her mother. Of course such a move is hypothetical anyway, but we can live in hope....

02-09-2007

Judy .. mmmm .. the ink runs dry there. Can not find anything on her being at Belfast. Is she the cow that gave birth to Jubilee by Noddy (Chester)?
The erstwhile Belfast elephants I can recall are Jubilee (died 2003), Birma (died 1988) and Lena (died 2001).

Belfast also had a third male Fridolin/Sahib. He resided at the zoo from July 1988 to March 1991.


Your suggestion of moving both to Dublin or only Vishesh (breaking the current policy of moving elephants along matriarchal lines) seems fine by me. The only hiccup might be that Berhardine, one of the females already at Dublin Zoo and mother to the latest calf, is a dominant female. Jothi and Vishesh moving there might lead to clashes. However, I find that Jothi might well take up the role of matriarch in the herd, who knows .....

02-09-2007

Found the Judy you mentioned. She was born in 1957 and arrived at Chester in August 1961. She was moved to Neunkirchen Zoo in Germany on 16 September 2005 (with companion Kirsty).

02-09-2007

It was actually nobby, not noddy.

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02-09-2007

Jo, I thought that Noddy lived in the UK and had a yellow car

02-09-2007

Yes, Noddy the little man with a red and yellow car. There was big ears and another man with no legs. It was a great children's show. I don't watch it anymore.

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