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Hi, John Meek here, and I am Animal Collections Manager at Newquay Zoo.

Wow! It has been an extremely exciting time for us here at Newquay Zoo - our biggest news is the arrival of Charlie the new male African Lion. He is magnificent! He has joined us from Longleat to spend his well earned retirement here with his sister Connie, who is loving having her younger brother around again. Last week she was rolling around in front of him like a playful kitten!

We have had two new exhibits open this year - African Savannah and Phillipine Species. The African Savannah is particularly popular, as you can view Black Wildebeest, Nyala Antelope, Ostrich and Zebra roaming their enclosure from a birds eye viewing platform. The Phillippine Spotted deer and the rare Visayan Warty Pig are highly endangered species which will form a new part of our successful breeding programme.



The Visayan Warty pigs in particular are so friendly and inquisitive, and we have had a webcam set up so you can see what they are up to even from home.

The amazing Osiligi Maasai Warriors are coming to the zoo on Friday 30th October which we are all really excited about – they will be performing traditional dances, songs and stories from Kenya throughout the day. Everybody here is also really excited about Halloween –and we have some great festivities planned for our Halloween MONSTER bash – a fancy dress competition, trick or treat tales and a chance to meet our crazy creepy crawlies and play ghoulish games.

We hope to see you there!

Mancing di alam mempunyai keasyikan dan tantangan tersendiri dibandingkan dengan mancing di kolam. Mancing di sungai bisa dilakukan dengan biaya yang lebih irit karena ngak perlu bayar tempat, umpan gak perlu beli bisa dicari dilokasi mancing dan bisa memakai peralatan mancing seadanya. Keuntungan lain mancing di sungai, bisa menikmati keindahan alam dan bisa pilih tempat yang gak terlalu panas sehingga gak perlu pake sun block kaya mancing di kolam atau di laut.

Berhubung ikan di sungai bermacam jenis biasanya sebelum mancing ke sungai pemancing akan menentukan target ikannya dulu supaya bisa dipersiapkan peralatan dan umpan yang sesuai dengan target. Umumnya untuk mancing di sungai tidak diperlukan pelampung dan karena air sungai mengalir tentunya pemberatnya disesuaikan dengan arus sungai. Semakin deras arusnya maka tentunya pemberatnya lebih berat supaya tidak terhempas ke permukaan. Untuk mancing ikan baung dan jenis ikan yang besar kailnya juga lebih besar bekisar ukuran 8 atau lebih dan senar juga harus kuat supaya bisa melawan kekuatan ikan dan arus sungai.


Senar halus juga bisa dipakai untuk memancing ikan kecil dan ikan Silli. Umpan bisa memakai cacing tanah atau udang sungai. Cacing bisa didapat di pinggiran sungai, lebih baik cacing air yang hidup di pinggir sungai yang basah. Ikan Silli biasanya hidup di pinggir sungai di bawah sampah-sampah sungai.


Ikan Silli bentuknya seperti belut hanya lebih pipih, berwarna coklat bermotiv batik di tengah badannya dan bersirip seperti ikan. Siripnya tajam, maka perlu hati-hati untuk memengangnya, gunakan kain atau alas tangan lain agar tidak terluka. Rasanya pun hampir sama seperti belut hanya aromanya sedikit berbeda. Kalau digoreng aromanya mirip ikan lele yang disale.