Rhinos to australia Zoo » Australia Zoo

Rhinos to australia Zoo
19-02-2008

werrebie zoo is sending two young white males to Australia zoo, and monarto nmight send one two and try and get mareebs to jooin the bachalor group....


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19-02-2008

where did you get this info from?

not that its making a whole lotta sense anyway....

20-02-2008

Yup, it is nice if we have more clarification from you. Which are your sources?

20-02-2008

i was told this from two rhino keepers from werrebie zoo, they are crate training them now to be shipped, dont know how true the monarto and mareeba part though, ....................

20-02-2008

to deal with the over representation of males born in the region. all zoos with breeding herds are asked to hold a equal ratio of male/females and any new zoo wishing to join the program (such as australia zoo) are first asked to take on bachelor pairs or trios.

however, at present i didn't know monarto had too many rhino and if mareeba was to be giving up theirs, i doubt it would be going into a bachelor situation. the cairns male is genetically unrepresented here in australia (but then again so are most of the rhino here )

i'm glad australia zoo are finally getting rhino. i imagine they'll be wanting some zebra and giraffe to go with that...

20-02-2008

Yep I am glad as well, I would say they want a number of large African species when they open the new Africa exhibit

20-02-2008

Are the two going to the Australia Zoo the ones born at Werribee and any idea of the timeline?

21-02-2008

The above seems about right. Werribee now houses 5.4 () and Monaro 4.2 (). Both run bulls surplus to their herds and they now need maturing sub-adult bulls out of the way. It is fine in the first 2-3 years, but after particularly the bulls get to be a burden (also in the wild they then move from their birthing ground and establish a territory or align themselves with other sub-adult cows/bulls).

Both the Werribee calves Ganini and Swazi of cow Letaba must now find a new home. At Monarto at least calf Watoto of cow Uhura must find a new stamping ground. Nowadays, it is deemed essential that these bulls are then integrated into a bachelor herd to acquire social skills of being a grown bull (before being sent on to a breeding herd themselves).

21-02-2008

i still can't believe australia zoo passed up the chance to buy the tippery/mareeba animals!!

if they did they would have hippos, rhinos, pygmy hippos as well as all the other ungulates and lions etc..

and they would all be in an ARAZPA zoo!

21-02-2008

oh, and there is a recommendation for a male to move to beerwah from monarto.

so it does look like they'll have a trio.

22-02-2008

When is this african savannah, safari-type exhibit opening at Australia Zoo? I read somewhere that there are plans for a hotel and drive-thru park, but first up was a lemur-infested Madagascan exhibit by 2009. It's difficult to keep track of all of the many plans at this expanding zoo, and I do know that they have a potential mountain of space to house an awful lot of animals.

22-02-2008

no idea - they originally listed an really random list of species they wanted to keep, a list that didn't necessarily reflect regional priorities in any shape or form. maybe because he was so popular there or because of terri's american heritage and wildlife experience in her youth, animals like american beavers and pumas were on the list, even though virtually all american fauna is being phased-out of the other zoos.

they listed for sumatran rhino.... ha!

now it seems more in line with regional plans. an african savannah, lemurs, asian species and gorillas and orangutans.

but who knows when things come online. on certain levels i think australia zoo has developed surprisingly slowly.

right now i imagine a big focus is on acquiring young elephants.

22-02-2008

And I've often wondered why that is. It has taken them years to get the tigers and eles on exhibit and they have had a few primeates for a couple of years now and as far as I know they are still not on exhibit. The only thing I can think of is that they have concentrated on the show places like the new entrance/admin, the crocoseum and food court first.

22-02-2008

which is interesting. here's a guy who had an animal collection not unlike any found in small wildlife parks all over the country. but yet his zoo is world famous, and it has no giraffes, lions, hippos, rhinos, gorillas or even really monkeys (yet).

obviously his fame and the money has an aweful lot to do with it, but since there an ongoing argument that zoos can't survive without "megafauna", i would like to present just another example of a zoo that does.

could the fact that the irwins, so be it using their fame, have successfully made an attraction outta what most of us australians would have perceived as a whole lotta nothing?

could it be their "BY JINGO ITS A DINGO!!!!" attitude has actually encouraged interest in what is essentially a dog?

i think so. i think they have a marketing team that has successfully capitalised on what they have and made a "whole day zoo" out of a native wildlife park with a a few exotics and some big reptiles.

proof you can do anything as far as i'm concerned.

22-02-2008

From what I believe they should make a start on the African Savannah at the start of 09, From what I have heard the zoo will have their own Safari trucks to take the public into the exhibit which seems to be a very large area. There are plans for a Hotel and a new railway station right next to the zoo.

The Madagascar Island will be two acres in size