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#61
15-05-2008
Didn't Orana have some scimitor births recently?
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#62
15-05-2008
Scimitar-horned Oryx are still breeding, but must be very inbred by now. (You can be reasonably sure that the founders in Australia were related to each other.) I remember when they arrived at Taronga - I couldn't believe my eyes! (Australia had not had new antelope species for, literally, decades.) I couldn't have been more surprised at the sight of them if they had been Unicorns.(Their arrival had been ignored by the press- typical!)
As for primates such as Mandrills; importation is, I understand, permitted; and by air. It shouldn't be too hard or too costly to import fresh blood - we just need the zoos to be interested enough to do it! |
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#63
15-05-2008
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#64
16-05-2008
I remember seeing a small family of Drills at Adelaide zoo in the early seventies.
Male Drills are quite impressive too! |
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#65
18-05-2008
Exhibit
I see that Taronga Zoo is the latest addition to ZooLex, even though there are some mislabelled photos. |
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#66
18-05-2008
I hope these mislabelled photoes mean that there are more wild asia exhibits to come. Like the national zoos asia trail.
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#67
18-05-2008
the photos also say that there are holding areas for babarussa. considering it says it was editing by someone from the zoo itself you would think they could label the photos right. a photo fo a tapir marked fishing cat on a zoo realted site is a bit poor.
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#68
18-05-2008
lol this presentation sucks balls. on behalf of 'taronga conservation society' it should be pointed out that this presentation focuses almost entirely on the smallest 'gallery' style, wrap around exhibit.
gives a rather misleading view of what is essentially only one third of the tapir exhibit, and should have included the main enclosure. other faults besides the fishing cat exhibit are the holding capacity, which stands at 2. Actually, considering the status of this species in Australian zoos and probable phasing out of malayan tapirs due to eye conditions, does anyone else think Taronga should have completely ommitted this species from Wild Asia and instead used the space, and money, for another viable species. I guess in the future when the present tapirs pass away otters will get free rein of the entire area but I personally would love to see this species 'reinvested' in but this time given a fair go. for example, if more founders are imported then this time maybe our zoos wont stick them in full sun??? |
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#69
18-05-2008
even though ARAZPA would probably list this species as phase out just hypothetically what would everyone estimate the capacity for this species to be within the region?
given the fewer restriction surrounding the import of this species I reckon Taronga, Melbourne and Adelaide could hold up to 6 animals between them and if Perth ad maybe even Australia Zoo got on board maybe up to twelve animals could be housed jointly...not enough to be considered completely viable but enough to give this species a decent go and leave open range zoos to handle brazillian |
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#70
19-05-2008
With the way that ARAZPA zoos change their priority lists Malayan tapirs and fishing cats could reappear on the horizon. It wasn't so long ago that servals were on the way out - even when zoos were mass-creating mini African savannahs!
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#71
19-05-2008
glyn ai gree the presentation was not up to standard, and makes our asian area look repulsic\ve, especially when the national zoo's asian trail was listed just 3 months ago, and was quite alot better.
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#72
20-05-2008
The National Zoo's Asian Trail has the better animal species: giant pandas, red pandas, sloth bears, clouded leopards, japanese salamanders, fishing cats and asian small-clawed otters. I agree with Zoo_Boy's statement that the ZooLex presentation is also much easier to read.
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#73
20-05-2008
Not easier to read alone, all over better. Taronga has not finished all of it's asian exhibit yet, it still has to re-do it highlands area, which will be red pandas etc.
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#74
21-05-2008
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