Free Ranging Cotton Top Tamarins at Newquay Zoo 2001

Free  Ranging Cotton Top Tamarins 2001, Newquay Zoo, Maze Road area. Bottom – Mrs Buffy. Top left Barbara and (her left) Barry or Nancy. Top right Buffy. 

Free Ranging Cotton Top Tamarins 2001, Newquay Zoo, Maze Road area.

Bottom – Mrs Buffy. Top left Barbara and (her left) Barry or Nancy. Top right Buffy.

A picture from our archives, counting down towards our 50th anniversary in May 2019.

https://www.newquayzoo.org.uk/50thanniversary

You can read more about why and how we released these amazing small monkeys into the trees along the Maze Road at Newquay Zoo in 1996  in an article in Paw Prints in January 1998.

https://newquayzoohistory.wordpress.com/2018/11/06/newquay-zoo-paw-prints-newsletter-no-6-january-1998/

We have many endangered tamarins and marmosets still on island enclosures at Newquay Zoo.

However you will not Cotton Top Tamarins at the Zoo here anymore.  These pictures were taken in 2001. Once the free range experiment came to an end, they moved onto an island enclosure and eventually moved to another collection.

Blog posted by Mark Norris, Newquay Zoo Archive / Education, January 2019

https://www.newquayzoo.org.uk/about-us/our-history

 

Newquay Zoo Paw Prints Newsletter No. 9 Winter 1998

(Painful) Front page news Winter 1998 at Newquay Zoo 

Our ‘Christmas’ /’ New Year’ Edition of our Newquay Zoo Pawprints Newsletter No. 9 brings us to Winter 1998 and events for New Year 1999, twenty years ago.

Colour pictures added from our Newquay Zoo Archive and Press Cuttings.

News of Christmas 1998 including the zoo school wriggly nativity.

I remember several years from 1994 onwards of these “wriggly nativities” with live Village Farm animals down on the straw baled Café Patio. Great fun.

Zoo nativity Western Morning News 17 December 1998

Cornish Guardian 31 December 1998 – names removed to save embarrassment of some cool 20-somethings! – and Zoo Coordinator Jo Dixon with my favourite Zebu, Zebedeee. Village Farm.

Somewhere unscanned in our archives we have pictures of Clive Pig in action …

More good zoo fun 1998 with an empty Puma Enclosure to put actors and storytellers in ! 

Hello free-ranging Mara, goodbye exotic planting …

Watch out! From the Zoo Archives, a free-ranging Mara near yummy exotic planting.

Big Yellow Elephants?!? Off to Bristol Zoo for a few days for me, November 1998

Exotic Pet problems and the arrival of baby pig Hamlet …

Zoo 2000? Counting down and planning towards the 1999 11th August Eclipse?

Sadly we have found no picture of Rob in our archive so far but I remember him and his Guyanese wife Chandra. She said the Tropical House felt like home, it was the only place she felt warm in the UK.

Paw Prints No. 9 republished / blog posted by Mark Norris from the  Newquay Zoo Archive, Newquay Zoo, Christmas 2018 / January  2019.

Colour pictures  added from our Newquay Zoo Archive and Press Cuttings.

Join us as we count down towards our Newquay Zoo 50th birthday / anniversary on May 26th 1969 / 2019. https://www.newquayzoo.org.uk/50thanniversary