Binturongs - bears, cats or both?
Binturong – bears, cats or both? Hello and welcome to the third episode of my ‘ Conservation Park Tails’ blog! This episode will be centred around our pair of Binturongs, Bibsi and Thor, as well as highlighting some of the most important conservation work being performed around the world . As always, I will start by introducing the pair of Binturongs we have at Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park. In the rather cheesy selfie below, you will find Bibsi , our female Binturong. At the time of writing, she is 12 years old, having been born on the 15 th August 2009. Bibsi ha d been on a rather interesting journey before arriving with us in July 2016, being born at ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo in the Netherlands before moving to Zoo Heidelburg , Germany in 2010. As you can probably tell from the photo, Bibsi is a very friendly Binturong and has even been known to use the shoulders of zookeepers to get to food bowls – talk about no regard for personal space! In the right-hand imag