Hello George, I too have lots of slides and negatives of zoos and the animals within them, I know the frustration of the type of machine you refere to and I...
Hi, Paul, How are you? What do you use for copying slides to (ultimately) CD? I have used a digital video recorder and frame grabber and that Mictrotek 35mm...
George Thomson
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Hello George, I am very well thank you. Having used the Microtek 2700x2700 film scanner and found it to be rather troublesome, I went onto Hewlett-Packard and...
"Terror on safari" Daily Mail news paper, Saturday, February 7, 2004. A story appeared in the Daily Mail newspaper called Terror on safari and was about a...
Paul, I couldn't agree more with your comments. I read thisstory, and my first thought was "what an idiot", my second thought was "why did the guide let her do...
I saw this item too, having my attention drawn to it by someone else, as I never buy a newspaper. I agree with Paul, on the total stupidity of some eco-tourist...
George Thomson
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Here here say I and the countless other good folk of this world. The lady was actually on the bonnet and yes Land Rovers do have this type of roof rack bolted...
I too saw the original story, and I'm afraid my 2 reactions wwere: 1. What's all the fuss about? 2. What do you expect? Takling 2) first (!) if you get close...
ZooScot, Sorry for the delay in responding to your email regarding my website of Wildlife Photos at Zoos. The website is coming along pretty well and is...
thank you very much for the information you gave me,i realy love widlife photoes but i think you could help me with a little bit of more information on zoos...
Its good to know that at last am in contact with zoo lovers,its been long since i wanted to.HELLO to all recipents of this message. am seeking information on...
... DIRECTOR OF CATS CAT SURVIVAL TRUST CODICOTE ROAD WELWYN HERTFORDSHIRE AL6 9TU ENGLAND Dear Boyce, I read your email with interest and was quite surprised...
Hi, Following the success of a growing collection of wildlife - zoo photographs published online at www.gvaonline.co.uk/photos/wildlife/zoos I am on the hunt...
Hi Group, Does anyone know if there are international standards for the design and size etc of information signs on cages/enclosures? If so any help on this...
I am not sure if there are standards for signs. Personally, I would not have thought so. All the UK, European and USA Collections I have visited, vary widely...
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Has anyone visited this place? Do they have any information about it, especially about the (surprise surprise) Otters? Thanks, Lesley ===== Lesley aka Otter...
Lesley Wright
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Feb 24, 2004 7:34 am
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I visited Auchingarrich in August 2002 and noted the following: Cape crested porcupine Red-necked wallaby Various pheasants Siberian chipmunk Zorilla European...
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Feb 24, 2004 8:39 pm
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Rob Vaughan's list of species includes the "trendy" name of an animal, the Mara. Why this species, known since records began as the Patagonian Cavy, has been...
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Feb 25, 2004 5:14 am
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I was born in 1975 and have grown up with Maras rather than Patagonian Cavies. I fail to see that it matters how I refer to a species as you clearly understood...
Rob Vaughan
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Feb 25, 2004 7:07 pm
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You will find the Auchingarrich Wildlife Centre at the following address; Auchingarrich Wildlife Centre Comrie Perthshire PH6 2JS Tel: 01764-679469 Fax:...
In his reply, Rob Vaughan makes a valid point. As long as one can indentify a species by its name, does it really matter which name that is? Well, perhaps to...
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Feb 26, 2004 5:40 am
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I have tried without success to access this new site. Unfortunately as an AOL user my server will not open the site. Apart from changing my ISP, has anyone...
Hi Brian, I am also a Aol 1 Meg Broadband user and just tried the site which I'm getting no problems getting it to load. Plus, I have also tried it in Netscape...
Perhaps because I am a technical/scientific author, I am usually a very boring pedant when it comes to precise use of language (you should hear me on the...
George Thomson
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I suggest running aol as normal anfd then open internet explorer and run it from there ... _________________________________________________________________ ...
From the snippets of information on this Wildlife centre the relevant entry has been updated on the zoo directory site. Andrew Wilkinson www.zoos.50megs.com ...
Hi all, Currently researching into using protected contact system to handle captive elephants, if anyone has any opinon on this system, it would be great to...
Hello, You will find the information that you seek in the publication called; "Zoos-Safety, Health and Welfare Standards For Employers and Persons at Work" -...
After reading in todays newspapers as well as seeing the news on television about the big cat sightings in the UK, we seem to have surpassed the April fool...