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Old 09-11-2006

yeh ive seen the peccary exhibit. i liked it. in september there were only 3 and two were screwing which is why i had hoped that in the future there would be 'peccarylets'
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wow! you lucky man. was it the good looking ones?
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they all looked kinda 'piggy' to me.
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Old 09-11-2006

Seeing as how Llama, Alpacas, bison and the deer are all 'familiar' animals I wouldn't go to a zoo to see them. It's interesting what Glyn has to say about the genereation needs.
I know my knowledge is scant here but couldn't the open range have larger herds of them? If Dubbo, Werribee, Monarto, Australia and Orana all had large herds( greater than 30) and then small groups at some of the city zoos you wuld soon see the numbers needed. I would be interested to see what individuals would be needed, how many excess males for instance? I still think that private individuals would enjoy having a small bachelor herd.

Finally didn't some peccaries go to Taronga?
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yea they did, back to the south american thing , taronga just got the peccaries, now a tapir, and i heard manned wovles soon, and dubbo is breeding tapir for taronga, does this sound like the next exhibit for taronga is maybe south american, it is on the plan!
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not if they are putting the tapir in the african waterhole section like jay said!!!
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well it would be for just some where to jhouse it, it will all be done up, eventually
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even though in the masterplan there is a south american biome that will be developed there is no mention of a peccary exhibit, or big cat. it centres around the orang enclosure which will house spider monkeys and squirrel monkeys and extends back towards amazonia to include aviaries, galapogas tortoise, tamarins, anacondas and reptiles and amphibian exhibits!
the generation cycle theory lends uncomfortable truth to the going going gone report. obviouslt to build up a herd of bongo of that size would recquire significant space though everyone thinks it could be found, but also the importation of a large number of founder stock which is not going to happen with current quarantine laws.
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