Previous Guests

Below is a list of previous guests that we have found new homes for.

Click on any of the animals' thumbnails to see a larger image.

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Name: Greater African Jacana, Lily-trotter
Common Name: Greater African Jacana, Lily-trotter
Latin Name: Actophilornis africanus
About: 1 pair of Lily-trotters were re-homed after being seized from a transit shipment at Heathrow.

They now live in a Tropical Rainforest exhibition.

Name: Camilla
Common Name: Spectacled Caiman
Latin Name: Caiman crocodilus
About: Camilla is a Spectacled Caiman who was found dumped at the entrance to a zoo inside a duvet case.

When we received the call to ask if we could take Camilla she was already 4'9" and was missing approximately 8" of tail which looked to have been bitten off when she was younger.

It is likely that Camilla was being kept by a private keeper illegally without a Dangerous Wild Animals Licence.

Camilla has been fortunate as she has been found a new home at the Crocodile Sanctuary at Sealife Centre in Weymouth, where she has been placed on loan by ourselves.

Name: Cape Ground Squirrel
Common Name: Cape Ground Squirrel
Latin Name: Xerus inauris
About: A group of 9 Cape Ground Squirrel were seized by DEFRA while transiting through Heathrow.

After Quarantine they were sucessfully re-homed to a UK zoo which have since established a second colony at another collection.

Name: African Pygmy Dormouse
Common Name: African Pygmy Dormouse
Latin Name: Graphiurus Murinus
About: During 2003 a transit shipment containing about 100 African pygmy dormouse was detained at Heathrow airport by animal health officers due to the poor condition that they were in.

Once the quarantine period was over only about 20 had survived due to the poor condition they had been in on arrival. They were re-homed to 2 different UK zoos which both now have thriving colonies.

Please note that the image is not of the original mice on the shipment. The Mouse in the image is called "Fantastic Mr Rainbow Fox the Second" and belongs to Michelle Pickering a private keeper.

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