Tiger intro imminent » Adelaide Zoo

Tiger intro imminent
20-04-2008

Heard at a Keeper talk that they plan on introducing their breeding pair of tigers soon. No other information given as the keeper talk was during the public Lion feed.

20-04-2008

i would assume this is the 2 new Tigers, who's names escape me at the moment.
Does anyone know what the genetics are like for Kemiri?

20-04-2008

New Tigers rings a bell but can't sure though. He did mention they currently have 2 boys and 2 girls.

20-04-2008

Kemiri is the first cub of Shiva (of the original Sumatran pair at Taronga - Nico x Meta) and Seletan (from Melbourne Zoo - Frank x Poetry), born in November 1994 and sent to Adelaide in 1996?
she is the full sister to triplet brothers Juara, Dougall and Ramalon.

21-04-2008

they have a new female , Assiqua from Taronga Zoo and last year they recieved a male named Tuan from Germany. I think they are planning on breeding these two.

21-04-2008

other big cat movements. Leon snow leopard from taronga to melbourne in october 2007. if only our zoos could similarly expediate the interstate transfers of hippos.....

22-04-2008

isn't leon the breeding male at taronga?

bet he's coming to breed with our younger female. i wonder why they couldn't or didn't import an unrelated male as was always the plan?

this what always happens....

22-04-2008

And so all the cubs from two of the three potential breeding females will be brothers and sisters.

22-04-2008

*sigh* yeeeup.......

23-04-2008

There are no issues with getting more unrelated animals from overseas in terms of big cats, this is shown by the arrival of two males from Germany, one now living at Taronga and one in Adelaide, why don't you just trust the stud book managers to do there job.

23-04-2008

What species are you talking about?

23-04-2008

snow leopards

23-04-2008

are you sure? adelaide doesn't keep snow leopards, i think you mean tigers?

also, the german male coming to/at sydney, is he unrelated to the adelaide male or are they father and son? i think zoonooz mentioned that the would-be taronga male was the son of the adelaide male.

23-04-2008

yesh adelaide keeps tigers i realise this, i was making a comment on previous post's made by patrick and glyn discussing the movement of leon, Taronga's previous snow leopard

23-04-2008

It still seems strange to me that there are three potential breeding female snow leopards and that the same male will be bred to two of them. This then decreases the potentials founders as it means that many of the cubs born ion the region will be brothers and sisters. Wouldn't it have been better to have an unrelated male at Melbourne and breed their cubs with the Taronga or Mogo cubs. Three zoos full of siblings will not a breeding program make.