Bonnie and Clyde find a new hideout with the night-lovers
THEY MAY be named after one of history’s most notoriously theatrical criminal couples.
But unlike their namesakes, rare nocturnal cloud rats Bonnie and Clyde will be settling down for a quiet life after joining their fellow creatures of the night in Lotherton Wildlife World’s brand new Nocturnal House in Leeds.
The pair are among a host of night-loving newcomers which have become part of the exciting new purpose-built habitat, specially designed for the nocturnal additions.
Native to the Philippines, the elusive tree-dwellers are one of only two breeding pairs in the UK and have joined Lotherton as part of the European breeding programme to help protect the species for future generations.
Clyde arrived from Cologne Zoological Garden, with Bonnie coming to the UK from Frankfurt
Zoo, both in Germany. Joining them is another new addition, Pablo the kinkajou. Pablo arrived from the Isle of Wight and is one of only a handful of kinkajous in zoos across the UK.
Tropical World’s collection of Egyptian fruit bats and Seba’s short-tailed bats have also made the short move across the city to Wildlife World as part of the Roundhay attraction’s longer term collection development.