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Old 17-11-2016, 19:22
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Series 2 of Channel 4's behind-the-scenes look at Chester Zoo starts tonight at 8pm, featuring lions and sloths amongst others. Who's watching?

I really enjoyed the first series and it rated well, although I think moving it to Thursdays is a mistake as it now clashes with the soaps. Watching this programme encouraged me to visit Chester Zoo for the first time in over a decade earlier this year and it was absolutely fantastic - in fact they were filming for this at the time - so I'm looking forward to it.
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Old 17-11-2016, 19:49
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Really looking forward to it! Our local zoo and a great place
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Old 17-11-2016, 22:49
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Just love this series and the charity Chester Zoo. The animals are amazing! It's great getting to know some of the interesting animal personalities. Next time I go to the zoo I'll look out for the sloths and will hope to see some Asiatic lion cubs

It's so sad there are so many animals today facing extinction. In just my life time the human population has multiplied so rapidly, more so than ever before. In 1950, the world had 2.5 billion people; in 2005, this number increased to 6.5 billion. By 2050, this number could rise to more than 9 billion.

In contrast so many animal species have declined. The Grevy’s zebras, which were shown on tonight's episode giving birth, have declined by more than 85% in the wild in just 30 years.

It’s fantastic that this series raises awareness of the plight of endangered species and will make more people care.

Chester Zoo is very proactive acting for wildlife through it's breeding of critically endangered species, through education as well as the numerous conservation and research projects it is involved in and funds all over the world. It is becoming a major force in conservation.

It's hard to believe Chester Zoo was started by an ordinary man, George Mottershead, and his family who dreamed of building a zoo without bars. The BBC made a wonderful drama series based on this story called 'OurZoo'
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Old 17-11-2016, 22:55
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Loved it. I was so pleased that Nadine the zebra was ok, it looked a bit risky for a while.

Hope that the female lion does the job and has some cubs. Loved the sloaths and the wart hogs 😃 typical male, eats and sleeps and can't keep control of the children (no offence intended to our male species), but weren't the piglets adorable.

Looking forward to next week.
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Old 17-11-2016, 23:10
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Just love this series and the charity Chester Zoo. The animals are amazing! It's great getting to know some of the interesting animal personalities. Next time I go to the zoo I'll look out for the sloths and will hope to see some Asiatic lion cubs

It's so sad there are so many animals today facing extinction. In just my life time the human population has multiplied so rapidly, more so than ever before. In 1950, the world had 2.5 billion people; in 2005, this number increased to 6.5 billion. By 2050, this number could rise to more than 9 billion.

In contrast so many animal species have declined. The Grevy’s zebras, which were shown on tonight's episode giving birth, have declined by more than 85% in the wild in just 30 years.

It’s fantastic that this series raises awareness of the plight of endangered species and will make more people care.

Chester Zoo is very proactive acting for wildlife through it's breeding of critically endangered species, through education as well as the numerous conservation and research projects it is involved in and funds all over the world. It is becoming a major force in conservation.

It's hard to believe Chester Zoo was started by an ordinary man, George Mottershead, and his family who dreamed of building a zoo without bars. The BBC made a wonderful drama series based on this story called 'OurZoo'
Very nice post Liz, which I would agree with wholeheartedly, particularly regarding the human destruction/exploitation of various species and the positive efforts via endangered species breeding that the likes of Chester Zoo are obviously trying to achieve to address this. I don't know that I love or indeed approve of Zoo's, never have. And I'm sure the majority of us animal lovers would rather everything currently residing in the likes of Chester in fact lived in their respective natural environments. But, in this day and age, sadly that's seemingly rarely possible.
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Old 19-11-2016, 03:47
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I need to catch up on this - enjoyed the first series
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Old 24-11-2016, 19:49
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Second episode of series 2 starts in 10 minutes! Orangutans, aye-ayes and some naughty otters are on tonight.
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Old 24-11-2016, 22:45
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Those babies were so cute!



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Old 25-11-2016, 01:59
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I love all of the romance featured on this episode!

So great to see offspring being born, as that is the lifeblood of those species.
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Old 25-11-2016, 18:18
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The babirusa, oh I felt so sorry for her being terrorised by the two otters, couldn't believe they would throw stones to annoy her, poor thing.

Pleased she reared a piglet, and was also pleased for the pesky otter family.
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Old 26-11-2016, 17:51
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Wasn't it fabulous? Those otters banging on the door with their stones! Some of the expressions of the animals, especially the orangutans, crack me up. I love all animals.
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Old 29-11-2016, 17:09
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LOL at the Otters , amazingly cheeky , i can't believe they smash the pebbles at the door to disturb babirusa , on one hand i laughed at the cheek of it , but i also felt sorry for the babirusa, i think it was the best thing to move the Otters.

LOL the Otters are getting a taste of their own medicine from the Orangs
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Old 04-12-2016, 12:49
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I didn't understand why Football and Burt could not share the ladies both in separate pens The one on it's own must be so frustrated
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Old 07-12-2016, 19:08
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The otters amused me.
I was a bit teary when that poor baby penguin died overnight and the keeper had it's stiff body in the palm of her hand.
This programme makes you feel so many emotions.

Although I've seen enough clips of animals mating to last a lifetime D:
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Old 07-12-2016, 19:58
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I didn't understand why Football and Burt could not share the ladies both in separate pens The one on it's own must be so frustrated
But how randy were those 2 Swedish ladies, sneaking around behind the old man's back as soon as he fell asleep
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