Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park
Entrance in 2014
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| Date opened | 1974 |
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| Location | Birmingham, England |
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| Annual visitors | 1,450 |
| Memberships | EAZA[1] |
| Website | www |
Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park (formerly Birmingham Nature Centre, and before that Birmingham Zoo) is a small zoo on the edge of Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham, England. It is managed by Birmingham City Council.
Animals
The zoo features mainly small mammals. Its occupants include:
- Asian small-clawed otters
- Meerkats
- Lynxes
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Mouse lemur
- Golden-headed lion tamarin
- Goeldi's marmoset
- Squirrel monkey
- Pied tamarin
- Golden-headed lion tamarin
- Golden lion tamarin
- Ocelot
- African brush-tailed porcupine
- Red-necked wallaby
- Capybara
- Red squirrels
- Heritage breed farm animals
- various owls
- Greater rhea
- Northern bald ibis
- Wattled crane
- Blue crane
- Reptiles
- Jamaican boa
- Insects
Red pandas
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The nature centre used to have a pair of male red pandas. However these have been re-housed as part of the national breeding program. Ming Ming is visiting a female red panda in the Welsh Mountain Zoo.
Babu
Babu is a red panda who disappeared from the nature centre in November 2005 and spent four days "on the loose" before being discovered. Nature centre staff believe he was blown out of a tree and found himself outside his enclosure. His disappearance and the city-wide panda hunt that ensued made national headlines. After being discovered by a dog-walker in Moseley, Babu was dramatically reunited with his brother Tensing live on Midlands Today.[2][3][4][5]
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References
- Wildlife Conservation Park
- BBC "Red panda pair come out of hiding " 15 October 2003
- [1] Red Panda Breeding Program
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
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